{"id":133421,"date":"2025-04-12T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/for-worlds-wealthy-a-gold-card-path-to-american-citizenship-is-almost-here-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T12:28:12","slug":"for-worlds-wealthy-a-gold-card-path-to-american-citizenship-is-almost-here-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/for-worlds-wealthy-a-gold-card-path-to-american-citizenship-is-almost-here-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"For world's wealthy, a 'gold card' path to American citizenship is almost here – USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON- The Statue of Liberty may soon need a new inscription<\/a>: “Give us your rich, your wealthy, your high net-worth individuals yearning to breathe free.”
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick<\/a> announced Thursday that the \u201cgold card\u201d visa,<\/a> which gives wealthy foreigners a path to citizenship, would be available within a \u201cweek, week-and-a-half.\u201d
Lutnick, who was attending President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> cabinet meeting at the White House, gave the status update one week after the president showed off the physical card on Air Force One.
The gold-colored card, emblazoned with a likeness of Trump\u2019s face, offers a path to citizenship to foreigners after paying $5 million to the government.
\u201cI\u2019m very excited that within a week-and-a-half we\u2019re going to start with the gold card and the Trump card \u2013 it\u2019s coming out, and we\u2019re excited about that, and that\u2019s coming soon,” Lutnick said on Thursday.
“We are going to be selling a gold card,” Trump as he first floated the idea in February. “We are going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million.\u201d
Trump said it would replace the “EB-5” immigrant investor green card visa program, which allows immigrant investors the option to invest between $800,000 and $1.05 million that help create or preserve U.S. jobs to become permanent residents.
\u201cWealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card,\u201d he said in February. \u201cThey’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.\u201d
Trump has said that he is not seeking approval from Congress<\/a> as he is not providing them with citizenship but only a path to citizenship.
David Bier, an expert on legal immigration, border security, and interior enforcement at the CATO Institute, a libertarian think tank, said the move would be \u201ctotally illegal.\u201d
\u201cOnly Congress can create new green card categories, and a president cannot add or eliminate a green card category via executive order,\u201d Bier said. \u201cCongress would need to amend the immigration laws and the tax code to implement this idea.\u201d
In terms of possible lawsuits, Bier said he wasn\u2019t sure \u201cwho could plausibly claim to be harmed by millionaires immigrating.\u201d Still, people who are applying under current rules and whose applications are blocked could theoretically sue, he said.
Trump has described the card as \u201csomewhat like a green card, but at a higher level of sophistication.\u201d
\u201cIt’s a road to citizenship for people and essentially people of wealth or people of great talent where people of wealth pay for those people of talent to get in,\u201d he said.
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy is a White House correspondent for USA TODAY.<\/em>\u00a0You can follow her on X @SwapnaVenugopal<\/em><\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON- The Statue of Liberty may soon need a new inscription: “Give us your rich, your wealthy, your high net-worth individuals yearning to breathe free.”Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced Thursday that the \u201cgold card\u201d visa, which gives wealthy foreigners a path to citizenship, would be available within a \u201cweek, week-and-a-half.\u201dLutnick, who was attending President Donald […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}