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You don't need to have $5 million in your bank account to build a successful company in America. Just look at Sergey Brin, Sundar Pichai, or Satya Nadella,
Khanna told Newsweek in a statement Wednesday
The risks from these programs can spill over to other countries, too. Members of organized crime may use their newly acquired passports to move freely between countries and establish illegal enterprises."
The IRC's 2021 reportWe should welcome talented workers to America who will bring their creativity and productivity while also reforming the H1-B program to prevent abuses,
he addedWealthy people will be coming into our country by buying this card,
he said
We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus, it's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."
President Donald Trump said as he announced the Gold Card visa schemeThe U.S. won't have the same issues as the smaller and weaker countries that have already established golden passport programs since the U.S. has traditionally been the key backroom player. It calls a lot of the shots in the global market for citizenship by investment."
Dr. Surak, told NewsweekThe U.S. is such an enormous country, both economically and in terms of migration flows, that the problems that golden visas might bring will barely move the needle."
But Dr. Surak, told NewsweekIn short, [Trump] won't run into many problems and certainly not any sorts of problems that aren't already there within the standard immigration screening procedures."
She addedAt a projected $5 million investment per application, the economic benefits will hardly be noticed in the U.S. economy. Demand for U.S. citizenship among global elites is so high that if [Trump] were to charge $50 million per application, it would still see demand,
she saidYou are getting big taxpayers, big job producers,
he said, noting the U.
If you add up the numbers, they are pretty good. As an example, a million cards would be $5 trillion. If you sell 10 million of the cards, that's a total of $50 trillion,
he saidRather than having this sort of ridiculous EB-5 program, we're going to end the EB-5 program. We're going to replace it with the Trump Gold Card, which is really a green card,
Lutnick saidIt’ll be people with money,
Trump said, without noting any job-creation requirements
Possibly. I know some Russian oligarchs who are very nice people.”
When asked if wealthy Russians could qualify, Trump repliedYou have a green card, this is a gold card,
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office TuesdayThey’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, and we think it’s going to be extremely successful,
Trump said in the Oval Office
It’s somewhat like a green card, but at a higher level of sophistication, it’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, meaning companies will pay for people to get in and to have long, long term status in the country,
he saidThey can come to America. The president can give them a green card, and they can invest in America, and we can use that money to reduce our deficit,
he added
We are going to be selling a gold card,
Trump said as he signed executive orders alongside Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in the Oval Office on TuesdayIt’s going to be giving you green card privileges plus,
Trump said