Instead of the ‘green card’ Which allows foreigners to live and work in the United States after an exhausting and time consuming application process, the golden version will be available to all who pay one million dollars.
The United States will issue ‘golden visas’ in exchange for $ 1 million (850,000 euros) and demand a $ 100,000 payment for visas of qualified professionals, according to a decree signed this Saturday by Donald Trump.
“This will be a huge success,” predicted the US president in the White House Oval Room during the signing of the executive decree on the new system that should allow foreign citizens with “exceptional qualities” obtain a ‘gold card’.
Instead of the Green Card (‘Green Card’) that allows foreigners to live and work in the United States after an exhausting and time consuming application process, the golden version will be available to all who pay a million dollars to the US Treasury.
A Donald Trump advisor quoted by AFP said the payment will be two million dollars if it is a company sponsoring the ‘gold card’, and that candidates will “benefit from accelerated processing” in obtaining the visa.
It will be (yet) harder to go to work for the US
Also this Saturday, Trump signed a decree demanding a new annual rate of $ 100,000 (85 thousand euros) for requests for H-1B visa, among other changes to the program for highly qualified foreign workers under government analysis.
The Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, who was present at the signature ceremony alongside the president, said that “the general idea” of changes “is that these large technological companies or other companies no longer form foreign workers”, and that “all large companies are aligned” with the measure.
If they use foreign workers, “they will have to pay $ 100,000 to the government and then pay their employees; it is not profitable,” he continued.
“If you want to form someone, you will have to form a newly graduated young man in one of the great universities of our country, train Americans and stop bringing people to steal us jobs,” said Lutnick.
The H-1B visa of non -imigrant allows US employers to temporarily hire foreign workers in specialized occupations.
It has been widely used in recent years by technological companies, such as those controlled by the Mogan Elon Musk.
According to Bloomberg, Trump also plans to ask Lori Chavez-Deremer’s secretary, who reviewing the salary levels associated with the H-1B program to prevent US employees from suffering salary cuts.
The H1-B program was created in 1990 for people with a degree or higher degree in areas where vacancies are considered difficult to fill, especially science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Critics say they allow companies to pay lower salaries with less work protections.
According to AP, The H-1B visa program has become a channel for foreigners who are often willing to work for only $ 60,000 a year, much less than over $ 100,000 wages normally paid to US technology workers.
Trump insisted today that the technology industry would not oppose: “I think they will be very happy,” he said.
Historically, these visas – 85,000 per year – were attributed through a lottery system.
This year, Amazon was by far the largest H-1B visa beneficiary, with more than 10,000 awarded, followed by Tata Consultancy, Microsoft, Apple and Google.
