Trump Promises $5 Million ‘Gold Cards’ for Foreigners to Buy CitizenshipNeil Munro 25 Feb 2025
President Donald Trump says he wants to replace the EB-5 visa program that sells green cards to wealthy investors with a higher-cost “gold card” program.
“Wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card,” he told reporters on Tuesday. “They’ll be successful and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people .”
“We’ll be able to sell maybe a million of these cards, maybe more than that,” Trump said.
The EB-5 program is “full of nonsense, make-believe, and fraud,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told the reporters. “It was a way to get a green card that was low priced.”
The bipartisan EB-5 program offers family packages of green cards to investors who merely loan $1 million to companies that create as few as 10 temporary jobs. The green cards can later be traded in for citizenship.
The E-5 program is capped at around 10,000 green cards per year.
The Gold Card would provide green cards — and the chance for citizenship — at a higher price of $5 million, Trump said, without explaining if the card would be per person or per family.
The price of $5 million is a very low price for U.S. citizenship.
Citizenship allows people to move their descendants and their wealth under the protection of the U.S. government — and out of China, India, and other countries where the wealth and children can be grabbed by governments.
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