The published terms price the programme per person rather than per household. Every accompanying spouse and every unmarried child under twenty-one carries an additional processing fee together with an additional gift of one million dollars, so a family of four faces four fees at US$15,000 each and four seven-figure payments.
Per person, not per family
The arithmetic is the part most often garbled in retelling, and it changes decisions. Working it through for Aurélie's household: herself, her spouse and two children under twenty-one produce four processing fees and four gifts, which totals sixty thousand dollars in nonrefundable fees and four million dollars in gifts to the U.S. government.
A corporate sponsorship of an employee is quoted at the higher two million figure for the principal, and the additional family members are charged separately again. Ages have to be checked against the timeline rather than against today, because a child who reaches twenty-one before the relevant stage is no longer an accompanying family member and requires an independent route, usually a student pathway or a category of their own. It is also worth remembering what permanent residence is and is not.
It confers the right to live and work in the United States subject to residence obligations, and it is not citizenship, which remains a separate later process with its own requirements.