{"id":13537,"date":"2026-04-23T19:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13537"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:04:40","slug":"130475439-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13537","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Gold Card&#8217; visa: One cleared, hundreds await as $1 million residency plan rolls out &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130475480,imgsize-219428,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/trump-gold-card.jpg\" alt=\"Trump's 'Gold Card' visa: One cleared, hundreds await as $1 million residency plan rolls out\" title=\"Trump gold card \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The United States has approved only one applicant so far under President Donald Trump\u2019s &#8216;Gold Card&#8217; visa programme. According to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the visa programme will offer US residency in exchange for a $1 million fee.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>Testifying before a US House committee on Thursday, Lutnick said that the identity of the approved applicant was not disclosed. He added that &#8216;hundreds&#8217; of other applications are currently under review, Bloomberg reported. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>According to him, all applicants must undergo &#8216;extraordinary vetting&#8217; and pay a $15,000 processing fee before approval.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>The Trump administration began accepting applications for the visa in December. The programme is being promoted as a way to attract wealthy and skilled individuals to the United States by offering permanent residency in exchange for a substantial financial contribution.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>Lutnick said the initiative is intended to bring talent into the country, though he did not provide details on processing timelines or selection criteria.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/business\/international-business\/trumps-gold-card-visa-one-cleared-hundreds-await-as-1-million-residency-plan-rolls-out\/articleshow\/130475439.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has approved only one applicant so far under President Donald Trump\u2019s &#8216;Gold&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32309,32307,32305,32306,32308],"class_list":["post-13537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-extraordinary-vetting-process","tag-gold-card-visa","tag-trump-gold-card-visa-program","tag-us-residency-visa","tag-wealthy-skilled-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}