A nonrefundable US$15,000 processing fee for each person, and after successful vetting a US$1 million gift for each eligible person, or US$2 million where a corporate sponsor gives for an employee. None of it is an investment, none of it earns a return, and the gift is not returned.
Nothing here comes back, and that is the design
Households comparing routes on price consistently misread this one, because the money behaves unlike money in every other category. The fee is spent at the point of payment and is not returned if vetting is unsuccessful. The gift, once made after successful vetting, is a gift: it confers no interest in anything, produces no income, cannot be sold and is not repaid.
There is no enterprise behind it, no job-creation test to satisfy, and consequently nothing to monitor afterwards. Government charges for the underlying immigrant filings sit on top and are published in the USCIS fee schedule. Against that, the family should set the cost of the alternative they are actually weighing, remembering that the investor immigrant route places capital at risk rather than giving it away, which is a different kind of exposure and not a smaller one.
Terms and amounts should be re-verified officially on the day, before any transfer is authorized.