Trump has promised $5m 'gold card' visas. Experts say they're unlikely to ever happen

Source: The Independent

Trump has promised $5m ‘gold card’ visas. Experts say they’re unlikely to ever happen

A fast track to legal status is likely illegal without Congress, and it’s unclear if interest in the idea translates to applications

Alex Woodward
in New York
Monday 07 July 2025 18:57 BST

Within the first few weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump had promised to open a fast lane for wealthy immigrants to obtain legal status in the United States for $5 million.

On April 3, he showed reporters a prototype for his Trump Card, which features the president’s face on a gold, laminated credit card that would act as a green card. The card was going to be ready “in about less than two weeks,” Trump said at the time. In June, the White House created a bare-bones website to sign up for information, promising that “The Trump Card is coming.”

Nearly one month later, it’s unclear what progress the administration is making. Republicans in Congress didn’t take the card into account with a recently passed megabill that overhauled immigration enforcement, nor did they even bring it up in a recent hearing on the future of visas. Legal experts are highly skeptical that the administration can pull it off at all.

The card would have to implement a new visa category, which the president cannot unilaterally create without legislation, raising even more constitutional questions about the president’s overreach with federal immigration law.

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