Trump to sell 'gold cards' for $5 mn path to US citizenship

U.S President Donald Trump unveiled plans Tuesday to sell new "gold card" residency permits for a price of $5 million each and said Russian oligarchs may be eligible.

- AFP

Trump said sales of the new visa, a high-price version of the traditional green card, would bring in job creators and could be used to reduce the US national deficit.

"We're going to be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

The Republican president, who has made the deportation of millions of undocumented migrants a priority of his second term, said the new card would be a route to highly prized US citizenship.