Trump launches Gold Card

The Trump Gold Card is a visa based upon an individual's ability to provide a substantial benefit to the United States

- PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

US President Donald Trump announced the launch of a million-dollar “Gold Card” offering a pathway for immigrants to US citizenship, saying that it is a “shame” that students from India and China have to go back to home countries.

The Trump Gold Card announced Wednesday is a visa based upon an individual’s ability to provide a substantial benefit to the United States.

“It is a gift of getting somebody great coming into our country, because we think these will be some tremendous people that wouldn’t be allowed to stay,” Trump said during a roundtable in the White House.

Trump added that students graduate from college, “you have to go back to India, they have to go back to China, they have to go back to France. They have to go back to where ever they came from. Very hard to stay. It's a shame,”

Flanked by IBM;s Indian-American CEO Arvind Krishna and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, Trump announced that the Gold Card website is live and companies can “buy” the Gold Card to keep the students they hire from top American universities such as Wharton, Harvard and MIT in the US.

Trump said that he has heard from Apple CEO Tim Cook several times and other executives that they cannot hire people from the best colleges because “you don't know whether or not you can keep the person.”