The current principal gift is US$2,000,000 corporately versus US$1,000,000 individually, plus the nonrefundable US$15,000 processing fee per person. Family and continuing corporate obligations are additional.
Include the governing maintenance and transfer terms
Corporate terms describe 1% annual maintenance and a 5% transfer charge with a new background check, subject to actual conditions. These are not guaranteed reuse rights, and the gift should not be compared with recoverable EB-5 capital as though both were identical assets. Build a payment ledger that records each processing fee, proposed gift, payer, official instruction date and any stated corporate maintenance or transfer condition.
The gift is a payment to the U.S. government, not recoverable business capital and not an EB-5 investment. Hypothetical example: a water-treatment equipment company records the corporate gift as an asset that can offset a future investor contribution.
The official terms, company ledger and payment instruction show why that accounting assumption is wrong. The decision is whether the employer accepts the stated conditions for a named person, not whether the payment can be valued like a commercial holding. Confirm current figures and conditions from official material immediately before action.