A nonrefundable processing fee of fifteen thousand United States dollars per person, successful vetting, and then a gift to the U.S. government of one million United States dollars from an individual or two million from a corporate sponsor. It runs through existing employment-based immigrant classifications, whose own requirements continue to apply.
A payment plus a classification, not a payment instead of one
The most damaging misconception about this programme is that money substitutes for eligibility. It does not. Because the process uses existing employment-based immigrant classifications, whatever that classification demands of any other applicant it also demands here, and the payment sits alongside those requirements rather than in place of them.
Anyone told otherwise has been told something the official material does not say. The second point concerns the nature of the payment. It is a gift, transferred by the applicant to the U.S.
government, and it is not an investment in a business, not a deposit and not a fee that buys a result. The third point is procedural: the fee is paid before the vetting, so an applicant who is unsuccessful has still paid it. Hypothetical example: Ghislain should establish, before anything else, which classification his file would run through and whether he plausibly meets it, since that answer may end the enquiry more cheaply than any of the payments would.