Do not infer the route solely from who reimburses an expense. Confirm the actual application and official terms.
Name the applicant and arrangement
Record whether the proposal is an individual application or corporate sponsorship and resolve uncertainty before payment. The published principal gifts differ. A company’s internal accounting label does not establish the government’s classification or the applicant’s eligibility.
The current official framework rests on a nonrefundable processing fee followed, after vetting, by a gift to the government; it uses existing EB-1 or EB-2 classifications rather than creating a freestanding statutory category. Under the current official framework, a corporate sponsor applies for an employee, pays the per-employee processing fee and gift, and the sponsored employee may receive lawful permanent resident status through EB-1 or EB-2 if otherwise eligible, admissible, and a visa is available. The gift is one million United States dollars where an individual proceeds on their own account and two million where a corporate sponsor makes it on behalf of an employee, and the processing fee is charged per person and is not returnable.