President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a new “Gold Card” that will be sold to immigrants for $5 million. POTUS said the card, which is a premium version of a Green Card, will provide immigrants with “a pathway to citizenship.”
“We’re gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We’re gonna be putting a price on that card of about $5 million and that’s gonna give you green card privileges plus,” he said Tuesday in the Oval Office as he signed executive orders alongside Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
“It’s gonna be a route to citizenship. And wealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card. They’ll be wealthy and 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.”
Trump announced the program would launch in two weeks, adding that he did not think his administration needed to secure approval from Congress. However, details regarding how the program would be implemented remain unclear.
