A complex unit gain graph (or T-gain graph) is a triple Φ = (G, T, ϕ) ((G, ϕ) for short) consisting of a graph G as the underlying graph of (G, ϕ), T = {z ∈ C : |z| = 1} is a subgroup of the multiplicative group of all nonzero complex numbers C × and a gain function ϕ :− → E → T such that ϕ(e ij ) = ϕ(e ji ) −1 = ϕ(e ji ). In this paper, we investigate the relation among the rank, the independence number and the cyclomatic number of a complex unit gain graph (G, ϕ) with order n, and prove that 2n − 2c(G) ≤ r(G, ϕ) + 2α(G) ≤ 2n. Where r(G, ϕ), α(G) and c(G) are the rank of the Hermitian adjacency matrix A(G, ϕ), the independence number and the cyclomatic number of G, respectively. Furthermore, the properties of the complex unit gain graph that reaching the lower bound are characterized.