{"id":602633,"date":"2026-04-24T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602633\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:48:09","slug":"trumps-gold-card-visa-granted-to-just-1-person-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/602633\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s \u2018gold card\u2019 visa granted to just 1 person so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cgold card\u201d visa, where a foreigner can shell out at least US$1 million to legally live and work in the US, has been approved for one person, said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Thursday \u2013 appearing to fall a bit short of an earlier claim.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">After it launched in December, Lutnick said that the government had sold US$1.3 billion \u201cworth\u201d in just several days, as Trump stood by holding up the gilded ticket and said, \u201cessentially it\u2019s the green card on steroids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lutnick did not address the apparent discrepancy in an exchange with a congresswoman at Thursday\u2019s committee hearing.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump pushed the idea last year, initially suggesting a cost of US$5 million, and arguing that it would entice foreign talent to US shores and fill out federal coffers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1o401188 css-16lwkd e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776991689_445_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"SCMPYoutubeVideoPreview-PreviewTitle\" class=\"css-zasw6y e1o401182\">US \u2018gold card\u2019 visa fails to lure rich Chinese #ytshorts<\/p>\n<p>US \u2018gold card\u2019 visa fails to lure rich Chinese #ytshorts<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It is meant to replace the EB-5 programme, a decades-old programme that offered US visas to people who invested about US$1 million in a company with at least 10 employees.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Though only one person has been approved, \u201cthere are hundreds in the queue that they are going through\u201d, Lutnick said, appearing pleased with the programme\u2019s results, at a congressional committee hearing on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cgold card\u201d visa, where a foreigner can shell out at least US$1 million to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,1246,103,248984,12,262136,4135,6801,136071,3,3662,77571,1049,21,19,22,20,25,6047,24],"class_list":["post-602633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-australia","tag-canada","tag-commerce-secretary-howard-lutnick","tag-donald-trump","tag-eb-5-programme","tag-greece","tag-italy","tag-malta","tag-news","tag-spain","tag-statue-of-liberty","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-citizenship","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}