IN THIS GUIDE · Separate digital-asset value from the bank payment instructed for a Gold Card gift
Start with the GOLD CARD eligibility and application overview
Use the payment method actually instructed
Follow the official instructions received for the gift instead of sending assets to a wallet address supplied by an unverified message. The published process describes bank payment after vetting; this example does not approve a particular source or predict whether converting an asset will make its proceeds acceptable.
Connect any proceeds to their actual history
Keep relevant ownership, acquisition, transaction and bank-path records for the required review. A sale or exchange balance may show value without proving every source fact. Describe the real sequence and any unresolved transfer limitation rather than claiming settled funds from an available-market-price screen. Decide who will be able to explain each acquisition, and confirm they still can. Assets bought years ago through a platform that has since closed, or transferred between wallets the applicant no longer controls, leave gaps that no current balance fills. Export the transaction history while access exists, and note honestly where the record stops.
Keep the official amounts and eligibility separate
Current individual terms are US$15,000 nonrefundable processing and a US$1 million gift after vetting and instructions. Corporate principal terms use US$2 million plus US$15,000, with 1% annual maintenance and 5% transfer including a new background check. EB-1 or EB-2 eligibility, admissibility and visa availability remain necessary; wealth alone does not decide them.
Budget each intended applicant in the published currency
The intended eligible spouse and unmarried children under 21 should be included initially; each adds US$15,000 and a US$1 million gift, including under corporate sponsorship. A changing portfolio value is not a fixed government payment. This page recommends no asset sale, supplies no market forecast and promises no immigration completion date. Household budgeting raises its own decision: what the family will live on while the process runs. The published amounts are payable in United States dollars and are separate from relocation, housing and professional costs, none of which the payment covers. Confirm the current published figures from the official source before committing to a number, since terms may change.
Decide what the payment does and does not buy
Clarity about the transaction prevents most of the disappointment attached to this route. The published terms describe a payment made by the applicant to the U.S. government; nothing is being given to the applicant, and the payment is not itself a visa category. Underlying eligibility, admissibility and visa availability continue to apply on their own terms, and money does not substitute for any of them. Hypothetical example: the owner of a specialty food import business assumes that paying the published amounts will place the family in the United States by a chosen school year. The sensible planning decision is to confirm the underlying eligibility route first, then treat the payment as one step within it rather than as the step that replaces it.
Follow the official payment sequence and individual amounts
The published outcome is lawful permanent residence through EB-1 or EB-2 as appropriately determined, subject to eligibility, admissibility and visa availability. Sequence private and public obligations carefully: review the sponsor contract, confirm the applicant’s independent immigration facts, complete verified payment instructions, and preserve the result for the filing. The applicant should wait for the applicable official instruction rather than improvise an intermediary arrangement.
Sources reviewed 2026-09-07. This guide covers a preparation focus; it is not an individual eligibility assessment.