WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump unveiled the first \u201cgold card,\u201d a residency permit sold for $5 million each, aboard Air Force One on Thursday.
\nHolding a prototype that bore his face and an inscription \u201cThe Trump Card,\u201d the Republican president told reporters that the special visa would probably be available \u201cin less than two weeks.\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m the first buyer,\u201d he said. \u201cPretty exciting, huh?\u201d
\nTrump previously said that sales of the new visa, a high-price version of the traditional green card, would bring in job creators and could be used to reduce the US national deficit.
\nThe billionaire former real estate tycoon, who has made the deportation of millions of undocumented migrants a priority for his second term, said the new card would be a route to highly prized US citizenship.
\nHe said in February that his administration hoped to sell \u201cmaybe a million\u201d of the cards and did not rule out that Russian oligarchs may be eligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump unveiled the first \u201cgold card,\u201d a residency permit sold for $5 million each, aboard Air Force One on Thursday. Holding a prototype that bore his face and an inscription \u201cThe Trump Card,\u201d the Republican president told reporters that the special visa would probably be available \u201cin less than two weeks.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470513,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-470499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n