US President Donald Trump unveiled the primary “gold card”, a residency allow bought for $5 million (R95 million) every, aboard Air Drive One on Friday.
Holding a prototype that bore his face and an inscription “The Trump Card”, the Republican president instructed reporters that the particular visa would in all probability be out there “in lower than two weeks”.
“I’m the primary purchaser,” he mentioned.
“Fairly thrilling, huh?”
‘Usher in job creators’
Donald Trump beforehand mentioned that gross sales of the brand new visa, a high-price model of the standard inexperienced card, would usher in job creators and could possibly be used to cut back the US nationwide deficit.
The billionaire former actual property tycoon, who has made the deportation of thousands and thousands of undocumented migrants a precedence for his second time period, mentioned the brand new card could be a path to extremely prized US citizenship.
He mentioned in February that his administration hoped to promote “perhaps 1,000,000” of the playing cards and didn’t rule out that Russian oligarchs could also be eligible.
Should you might afford it, would you purchase one?
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By Garrin Lambley © Agence France-Presse
