Do not transfer Gold Card family provisions to a different programme without current supporting instructions.
Confirm each household member’s route
The Gold Card FAQ addresses a spouse and unmarried children under 21, initial inclusion and additional charges. Those statements should remain tied to Gold Card. Ask counsel to identify what is actually known about any other proposed route and leave unresolved family mechanics explicit rather than filling the gaps by analogy.
The failure mode is reasoning by analogy across programmes, which is attractive precisely because the gap is uncomfortable. A household needs to know whether a child can be included, no instruction exists for the proposed route, and the known provisions of another route are applied to fill the silence. The earliest signal is an answer given without a source.
Leave the gap explicit instead. The published family provisions for the available route address a spouse and unmarried children under 21, initial inclusion and additional charges, and they should remain tied to that route. Ask counsel to identify what is actually known about any other proposed route, record what is unknown, and confirm each household member position separately rather than as a group.
Where a household member position cannot be established, record it as unresolved and revisit it on a stated date.