Do not assume that identical citizenship is a general derivative requirement. Assess the qualifying relationship and each person’s other eligibility and procedural requirements. Different passports can mean different records or steps, while the stated family gift and processing amounts apply to eligible joining applicants.
Review the household’s actual facts
Record each person’s citizenship, birthplace, relationship and age as relevant. Consider any applicable chargeability or age-protection question specifically. Initial family inclusion is recommended by the programme, but payment alone does not establish the relationship or grant every family member status. Each eligible joining spouse or unmarried child under 21 has a separate US$15,000 nonrefundable processing fee and US$1 million gift, including corporate cases.
Check the current official terms for the specific additional amount per included family member, rather than relying on an informal account that may have simplified or misremembered the structure. Record the change and seek the correct current instructions; do not invent a universal rule that everyone must withdraw together or that remaining family members automatically continue unaffected. An L-2 spouse is employment-authorised incident to status while a TD spouse is not; EB-5 derivatives receive conditional residence alongside the investor; dependent children in the nonimmigrant categories lose status at twenty-one.