The New York Times reports:
Members of Elon Musk’s government-slashing task force are building a system for the United States to sell special immigration visas, which President Trump has labeled “gold cards,” for $5 million apiece. Engineers associated with Mr. Musk’s team have been working with employees from the State Department, DHS, and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to create a website and application process for the visas.
The gold card project is being led from the DOGE side by Marko Elez and Edward Coristine, who have been working on it since at least last month. Mr. Elez and Mr. Coristine have met with officials at various agencies that oversee facets of the visa and immigrant vetting process to understand which existing processes can be incorporated into their new system. Mr. Lutnick said on a podcast last month that he had sold 1,000 of the visas “yesterday.” But a person close to the project said no money had been exchanged yet.
Read the full article. Corstine, age 19, is better known here as “Big Balls.” Will any outlet call out Lutnick for lying about having already sold $5 billion worth of these cards?
“For $5m this could be yours.”
Donald Trump presents his “gold card” immigration visa, which gives buyers permanent residency in the US and a path to citizenship.
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