As Trump and Minister of Trade announced Howard Lutnick“golden cards” would be the equivalent of “green cards”, allowing permanent settlement and on acquiring citizenship in the future. The new program is to replace the EB-5 investment visa, which allowed you to get a green card after the investment of a million dollars and create 10 jobs.
– We will finish the EB-5 program. We will replace it Trump's golden cardwhich will really be a green card – said Lutnick. The condition for receiving it will be payment of $ 5 million to the statewhich will ultimately help in reducing the budget deficit. Lutnick announced that the applicants will be properly checked to be “great global world class citizens.”
USA. There was a proposal for Russian oligarchs. Trump: These are very nice people
When asked if Russian oligarchs would be able to take advantage of the offer, Trump suggested that they would be.
– Yes, it's possible. I know some Russian oligarchs and they are very nice people (…) They are not as rich as they used to be, but I think they can afford 5 million. So many people will want to come to this country – the president announced. According to Trump's promises, “golden cards” are to be available in two weeks, although it is not clear whether the administration will be able to do it without the Congress Act.
Similar programs, called golden visas or gold passports, exist in a number of countries, including European Unionthough They are controversial. The most common buyers of these visas or passports are rich Chinese and Russians. In 2018, a journalistic investigation at Hungary It showed that among the beneficiaries of golden visas there was, among others The family of the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryszkin and other loved ones Kremlowi people.