[Update below: You could be flushing your 1 million dollars down the toilet]
Trump's Gold Card program is intended to being wealthy people into the country on a fast track path to residency and citizenship.
Besides its cost of $1 million, along with a non-refundable processing fee of $15,000, there is also a corporate version available for $2 million.
Not only you will have to navigate the horrific American immigration bureaucracy, but you will have to suffer an intrusion of everything in your private life.
Then, assuming you decide to go ahead and obtain your ticket to the much-vaunted but fake "American Dream", those are the potential pitfalls:
- If you're tan, brown or black - i.e. if your melanin index (as measured by the "melanin-content detector" used by police) is higher than the threshold for being an acceptable white moron - they won't take you. Right now, people with a "colored" index are snatched off the streets simply because of how they look. You could be in for an American nightmare instead of an American Dream. White supremacist Trump wants people only from places like Norway, Finland, Sweden etc. because they are near albinos as far as their melanin index.
- Why would people from these "civilized non-sh--hole" countries want to leave them for the jungle of violence that the US is: Guns everywhere, violence everywhere, poor healthcare, etc... Why would anyone who enjoys the "happiest societies on earth" (per the annual happiness index) want to move to a country where people are always on the brink of depression and nervous breakdown because they can't afford anything, and the government subcontracts essential services to corrupt private corporations - the infamous "United Scams of America"?
- You'll be flagged by the hundred or so security agencies of the US. They'll have you on their radar for any misstep or mistake.
- Without generalizing, but many of you wealthy millionaires and billionaires earned your money through unorthodox methods. Drug dealers, cheaters, crooks, financial scammers... of all sorts would want a spot in the sun of the United Scams of America. So you will not be in good company if you yourself are clean. In fact, the Trump administration is offering this program as a bait to invite criminals then detain and prosecute them.
- Any change in US government, such as the past 20 year-long yo yo between Democrats and Republicans: from Democrat Obama to Republican Trump, then Trump to Democrat Biden, then Biden to Trump again.... is looking like a roller-coaster of policies that get enacted then abrogated then enacted again....What you see today is not what you'll see tomorrow. By the time you apply and the slow bureaucracy makes a decision, the administration would have switched back to Democrat (Trump's masquerade is in the doldrums). You might get your key to the otherwise boring golden gates of the American desert, but then the next administration will annul the agreement, take the key back and send you away.
- It is not very likely that you can bring your family and relatives with you. Family reunification is target number one of Trump's immigration policies.
- You may have to renounce your current citizemship if you do acquire the US one because the senile orange macaque is promising to forbid dual citizenships. If you do renounce your current citizenship AND Trump decides to ship you back for some reason, you'll become stateless without any citizenship.
- Traveling on a US citizenship/passport is increasingly likely to become a Mark of Cain that is ill-viewed by most nations whose citizens are being mistreated, killed by boat strikes, threatened for non-existent "genocides"....
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Applicants for Trump’s newly released gold immigration cards could have wasted $1M if courts axe program
Josh Marcus
Fri, December 12, 2025
The Trump administration this week launched the president’s immigration “gold card,” a program allowing applicants to pay $1 million to become lawful permanent residents, but legal experts warn all that money could go down the drain for these hopefuls because the initiative rests on flawed legal reasoning and could be struck down in court.
Other Trump tweaks to the immigration system like a new $100,000 fee for H-1B applicants have already spawned major lawsuits, and if the gold card melts down in a court battle, applicants would face a slim chance of ever getting their money back, Shev Dalal-Dheini, senior director of government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, told Axios.
“At the very minimum, they’d have to sue the U.S. government to get it back,” she said.
In addition to applicants being out $1 million, a court challenge could also imperil the status of people who have already gotten their gold cards.
Critics warn that the gold card program, which gives applicants permanent residency through EB-1 and EB-2 visas usually reserved for people with extraordinary abilities like famous academics or artists, exceeds the president’s legal powers. Congress, they say, can create new immigration law, not the president.
Critics argue Trump took congressional powers and made his own law by creating the gold card program, leaving applicants vulnerable to the possibility their $1 million application fee could get lost in a legal battle.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, called the whole process “VERY illegal” in a post on X this week.
“The Trump admin says anyone who pays $1 million will be deemed to have ‘exceptional business ability’ and become eligible for an employment-based immigrant visa,” he wrote. “But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.”
“Of course, nothing exemplifies the Trump ethos more than ‘every rich person is exceptional at business,’” he added, “but that doesn't change the fact that people who are getting this visa will not necessarily meet the legal requirements, and could risk deportation under a future admin.”
The Independent has contacted the White House and State Department for comment.
Legal concerns aside, the administration looks set to continue tilting the immigration system away from the most vulnerable and toward the wealthiest applicants.
The White House says a $5 million “platinum card” is on the way giving foreigners temporary residence in the U.S. without being subject to U.S. taxes on foreign income.
After an Afghan national allegedly shot National Guard troops in Washington, the administration froze all asylum decisions, ordered the review of green cards from a series of mostly impoverished nations on his so-called travel ban list, and indefinitely blocked immigration applications from Afghans.
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