A ‘Trump Card Visa’ Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms

The US government has the ability to extract about 1.5 million permanent residential cards in the current fiscal year, which is divided into divisions based on the specific rules of family members, advanced skills workers and other groups.

Lutnik originally offered Trump’s gold card as a replacement of one of these categories, known as the EB -5 investor visa, is probably the closest thing in the United States gold visa in the United States.

Built by the Congress in the 5th, the program currently invests $ 1.05 million to about 10,000 foreigners (or $ 800,000 in territory of high unemployment) in the United States.

Experts say that when the program was initially created, lawmakers went to ensure that the lawmakers could not be seen as a way to buy the United States unjustly for corrupt elites. The part of this effort was to evaluate each EB -5 application carefully to verify that the immigration authorities are not coming from illegal or unreasonable sources.

Doug Rand, a former USCIS adviser to the USCIS under the administration, said, “There is a whole unit in USCIS” filled with economists and national security experts “who reviewed the EB -5 app. During his time, Rand said that the EB -5 was associated with the Petitions that made so many stacks in the USCIS.

It is unclear whether this same level of verification is applied to the gold card program. During the February briefing, it was asked whether any Russian elite would be eligible, Trump said “Yes, perhaps, I know some Russian elite which is a very nice person.”

Consultants on behalf of the existing EB -5 program say that most of the general immigrants have used those who have saved for years for the development of American real estate and investing in other initiatives and expects one day to return their money. In other words, this is not a group of people who usually pay 5 million for gold cards and can never see those funds again.

“Most people who are trying to take the EB -5 program opportunity as a way of green card and citizenship are not the kind of money to raise money for the EB5 Real Estate project.” “They are mostly labor -class people who work hard to save their money, and they often use most of their savings to bring investment amounts to take advantage of EB -5.” (Sher added that he is a supporter of Trump’s gold card, though he expects it to coexist as well as EB -5 visas).

During the preliminary Oval Office briefing on February 25, Lutnik said that the Gold Card initiative would be launched within about two weeks. During his podcast interview published on March 20 a month later, he claimed that the project was just around the corner. “About two weeks later from today, it goes out,” Lutnik said to cut his hand through the air for emphasis. If it is actually ready and if so, when it is announced, stay unknown.

Additional Report of Matt Giles and Jeyang.