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LA PRAIRIE · GOLD CARD FIELD GUIDE

Can I carry over the EB-5 household budget without checking Gold Card family charges?

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THE DIRECT ANSWER

No. The official Gold Card family terms have their own per-person amounts. Intended eligible spouses and unmarried children under 21 should be included initially.

Recalculate the actual intended applicants

Each eligible joining relative currently adds US$15,000 and a US$1 million gift, including corporate sponsorship. A previous plan for derivative processing does not establish those payments or guarantee the same family outcome under a different process. Count the household first and the money second.

List each intended applicant with the relationship, date of birth and marital status, mark those who qualify as an eligible spouse or unmarried child under 21, and only then apply the published per-person amounts. Families frequently discover at that point that a child's age changes the arrangement, and the discovery is far cheaper made now. Hypothetical example: a medical device technical file author plans for a spouse and two children, one of whom turns 21 during the period the family expects to be preparing; that fact belongs in the plan from the outset, together with what the family would do about it, rather than surfacing as a surprise.

Confirm in writing which relatives are intended applicants, because the published terms expect intended eligible family members to be included in the initial application. Record the date the household count was made, since ages and marital status change and a plan priced months ago may no longer describe the same set of applicants.

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