Check the actual people and instructions. Intended eligible family and their additional amounts remain individual parts of the process. Current official terms add a US$15,000 processing fee and US$1,000,000 gift for each eligible joining spouse or unmarried child under 21, including corporate cases; confirm individual eligibility and the operative instructions.
Avoid a household-wide inference
The principal’s update is not automatically a relative’s completed case.
A civil birth record establishing the parent-child relationship and date of birth, plus evidence of current marital status, such as a marriage certificate or a divorce decree where either applies. Organize identity documents, name-change records, marriage or birth certificates for relatives, and evidence explaining the lawful origin of any funds that the official process requires. Initial inclusion is officially recommended for program benefits; later family plans require current advice rather than an assumption that arriving separately removes the charge. Choices about who joins the case and when are cheapest to make before any file has been built around a particular answer, and the official guidance on initial inclusion is worth reading in its current form rather than as summarised by anyone. Where a child’s age is close to the limit, the individual assessment of any applicable statutory age-protection rules belongs at the start of the planning rather than at the point where a birthday has already passed.