STORY: :: Trump floats the idea of $5 million
‘gold cards’ as route to U.S. citizenship
:: February 25, 2025
“We’re going to be doing something else that’s going to be very, very good. We’re going to be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We’re going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million dollars and that’s going to give you a green card privileges, plus, it’s going to be a route to citizenship.”
“”I think companies will pay to get people in. For instance, you today graduate from the Wharton School of Finance or Harvard or Stanford or any college and nobody knows if you can even go to work for a company. So Apple and all these companies that want to get people to be working for them will be able to buy a card for the people that are number one of their class at top schools, you know, I see that as one of the things.”
“So you’re getting big taxpayers, big job producers, and we’ll be able to sell maybe a million of these cards, maybe more than that. And if you add up the numbers, they’re pretty good. As an example, a million cards would be worth $5 trillion. 5 trillion. Wow. And if you sell 10 million of the cards, that’s a total of $50 trillion. Well, we have 35 trillion in debt. That’d be nice. So we’ll see. “
JOURNALIST: “Would a Russian oligarch be eligible for a gold card?”
TRUMP: “Yeah, possibly. Hey, I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people. It’s possible.”
Trump said the immigration program, which he said was legal, could start in about two weeks. He added it is possible Russian oligarchs could qualify for the gold cards.
The “EB-5” program granted “green cards” to foreigners promising to invest in U.S. businesses.
Trump said the program will be replaced with a so-called “gold card” that people will be able to buy for about $5 million from the U.S. government.
