Each accompanying spouse and each unmarried child under twenty-one adds a further nonrefundable processing fee and a further gift of one million United States dollars. Family members are not covered by the principal applicant's gift, so a household total is a multiple rather than an addition of small amounts.
Work the household arithmetic before the comparison, not after
Families comparing routes usually begin from a single headline figure and discover the multiplier late. Here the structure is explicit: the gift attaches to each person, and so does the processing fee. A couple with two children under twenty-one is therefore contemplating four processing fees and four gifts, which changes the comparison with other routes materially and may change the conclusion entirely.
Age and marital status are assessed as they are elsewhere, so a child approaching twenty-one deserves specific attention and specific advice. Where a corporate sponsor has offered to fund an employee's application, the family portion is a separate question that the written offer should answer rather than leave implied. Because the amounts and their treatment have changed since the programme was announced, the current official material should be the source for any figure used in a family decision.