Do not assume identical terms. The Gold Card FAQ expressly describes initial family inclusion and additional per-person processing and gift charges.
Compare the same household in both analyses
Give counsel the proposed spouse and children, including dates of birth and marital status, and request a route-specific explanation. This guide does not supply a full EB-5 family comparison. Keep any unresolved age, inclusion or timing question visible instead of importing the answer from the other programme.
Counsel rather than the household should map who can be included and on what basis, since these questions turn on classification rules and not on preference. The applicant supplies the facts: dates of birth, marital history, prior applications and any earlier refusals for each person. The adviser then states whom the process can cover, what each additional person entails, and what remains unresolved.
Hypothetical example: a plastics extrusion owner assumes an adult child working in the family business travels with everyone else, and nobody has asked which classification would apply to that person or whether it applies at all. Ability to pay for an additional person does not establish that the person qualifies. Where an answer depends on terms that may change, ask who will re-check them and by when.
Record the date of that advice and the terms it relied on, so a later change is visible as a change.