Gold Card (residence permit)

A Gold Card visa is a proposed type of residency permit for the United States which would allow investors residency and a path to citizenship for a payment of $5 million to the United States Government.
Proposal
The gold card proposal was first announced by President of the United States Donald Trump on February 25, 2025, who estimated the program would launch by the end of March 2025.
The gold card proposal is for a form of economic residency that would replace the existing EB-5 Visa which provides a method for eligible immigrant investors to become lawful permanent residents—informally known as "green card" holders—by investing a minimum of $1 million in a United States business. Unlike the green card, the gold card would require a cash payment of $5 million directly to the United States Government.
Trump said card holders would not have to pay tax on income generated outside of the United States, but will pay full taxes on income derived from within the United States. Jorge Loweree of the American Immigration Council also questioned the legality of a unilateral termination of the EB-5 program, as did Michael Wildes, a lecturer in immigration law at the Cardozo School of Law, and others.
Some immigration attorneys suggested that scrapping the EB-5 in favor of the proposed Gold Card would be a deterrent to migration for many Chinese nationals who currently use the former program, due to its higher cost.
The Daily Beast, quoting United States Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, reported that "250,000 people were already waiting in line for access" to investment migration opportunities.

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