Musk's Team Is Building a System to Sell 'Gold Card' Immigrant Visas

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/gold-card-visa-trump-musk.html

https://archive.ph/KiOQ4

Musk’s Team Is Building a System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas
The project represents something of a shift in mission for Elon Musk’s initiative, from cutting government costs toward a new goal of generating revenue.
By Ryan Mac and Hamed Aleaziz
April 16, 2025, 12:11 p.m. ET


President Trump showed off a “gold card,” his idea for a $5 million immigrant visa, on Air Force One earlier this month. (Eric Lee/The New York Times)

Members of Elon Musk’s government-slashing task force are building a system for the United States to sell special immigration visas, which President Trump has labeled “gold cards,” for $5 million apiece.

Engineers associated with Mr. Musk’s team have been working with employees from the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to create a website and application process for the visas, according to three people familiar with the discussions and documents seen by The New York Times.

The project represents something of a shift in mission for Mr. Musk’s team, the Department of Government Efficiency, from its initial task of cutting government costs toward a new goal of generating revenue.

In late February, Mr. Trump announced his idea for a gold card to give “very high-level people” a “route to citizenship.”

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[JBTaurus83]

1. If I had

5 million dollars to spend, this would be the last place I would want to move to. What a joke.

[genxlib]

2. I feel so unclean

There is an old joke that ends with the punchline ..."well we have already established that, now we are just haggling the price"

We just set our price.

I don't think it is a huge deal because it isn't that uncommon in the world. But Trump has a way of making it so tawdry.

[Norrrm]

3. Jared's family was selling the same thing but without a physical card.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. The only multi-millionaires who need this card are criminals who can't get in by everyone else's standards. . . .nt