The US$15,000 processing fee accompanies the online application and is nonrefundable. The US$1 million gift comes later, after successful vetting, and only when the applicant is instructed to make it. Visa, medical and professional costs arise separately along the way. No step in the published sequence asks for funds through a private intermediary.
Verify every payment instruction at source
Before transferring anything, open the official program site directly and compare the instruction against what is published there. Check the amount, the payee and the stage. Fraud around large immigration payments tends to imitate real steps and add urgency, so a delay of a day to confirm costs nothing.
Record who authorised each transfer and keep receipts with the case file; a later query about payment should be answerable from documents rather than memory. Open the official programme site directly and compare any instruction against what is published there before transferring anything, checking the amount, the payee, and the stage. Fraud around large immigration payments tends to imitate real steps and add urgency, so a delay of a day to confirm costs nothing while acting immediately can cost a great deal.
The processing fee accompanies the online application and is nonrefundable; the larger gift comes later, after successful vetting, and only when the applicant is instructed to make it. Visa, medical, and professional costs arise separately along the way. Record who authorised each transfer and keep receipts with the case file.