Why Trump wants 'gold card' to replace EB-5 visa
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() President Donald Trump has a new means of making the United States trillions of dollars.

The Trump administration on Tuesday said it would be revamping the U.S. investor visa, also known as the EB-5, increasing the funds required to secure the status while dubbing the new option a “gold card.”

“It’s sort of a green card plus, and it’s a path to citizenship,” Trump said this week.

“We’re going to call it the “Gold card,” and I think it’s going to be very treasured. I think it’s going to do very well. And we’re going to start selling, hopefully in about two weeks. Now, just so you understand, if we sell a million, right? A million, that’s $5 trillion.”

Non-citizens can fast-track their visa status and potentially become citizens down the line for a price of $5 million.

While President Trump has boasted the new visa would be a boost for the economy, some experts spoke with say Congress controls the budget and immigration policy, and so new legislation might need to be passed to overhaul the current program.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the new gold card would replace the current EB-5 program. The EB-5 visa allows qualified investors to become eligible for green cards if they invest between 800,000 to a million dollars in a commercial enterprise and also create at least 10 jobs.

The program began in the 1990s to encourage investments in rural and economically depressed areas. Matt Gordon, CEO of E3IG who advises EB-5 visa applicants, says it would be a mistake to simply replace the program.

“You’re talking three, $4 billion a year for rural communities,” he told . “You know, we’ve done projects which are opioid addiction clinics.”

However, Ishaan Akanna of the American Immigrant Investor Alliance, says the gold card could be a brilliant idea.

“There is an opportunity here to really kind of take this forward,” he said. “I mean, “The fact that this administration does and has claimed to support legal immigration. This is a fantastic way to do it.”

President Trump said Tuesday that the gold card would not have any requirements for job creation like the EB-5 program has. And while some of the experts spoke with argued that less people would be willing to pay for this kind of visa if it increases by $5 million.

Trump says that Apple or other companies like it, could buy gold visas and then get highly qualified foreign workers in return.

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