{"id":27434,"date":"2025-02-26T08:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T08:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27434"},"modified":"2025-02-26T08:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T08:21:20","slug":"trump-floats-5-million-gold-card-as-path-to-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/trump-floats-5-million-gold-card-as-path-to-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump floats $5 million \u2018gold card\u2019 as path to citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of replacing a visa program for foreign investors with a so-called &#8220;gold card&#8221; that could be bought for $5 million as a route to American citizenship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump told reporters he will replace the &#8220;EB-5&#8221; immigrant investor visa program, which allows foreign investors of large sums of money that create or preserve U.S. jobs to become permanent residents, with a so-called &#8220;gold card.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The EB-5 program grants &#8220;green cards&#8221; to foreigners promising to invest in U.S. businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to be selling a gold card,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;We are going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s going to give you green card privileges plus its going to be a route to (American) citizenship, and wealthy people would be coming into our country by buying this card,&#8221; Trump said, adding that details about the scheme will come out in two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27436\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1-1.jpg 944w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump added it is possible Russian oligarchs could qualify for the gold cards, when asked by a journalist if those people would be eligible. &#8220;Yeah, possibly. Hey. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, administered by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, was created by Congress in 1990 to &#8220;stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors,&#8221; according to the USCIS website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The EB-5 program &#8230; it was full of nonsense, make believe and fraud, and it was a way to get a green card that was low price. So the president said, rather than having this sort of ridiculous EB-5 program, we&#8217;re going to end the EB-5 program. We&#8217;re going to replace it with the Trump gold card,&#8221; Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h6><em>Reuters<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of replacing a visa program for foreign investors with a so-called &#8220;gold card&#8221; that could be bought for $5 million as a route to American citizenship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,976,194,234,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-us","category-headline"],"views":65,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27437,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27434\/revisions\/27437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}