OMB has approved the new Immigration Form dedicated to the Gold Card submission. The Form was approved at lightning speed indicated the Departments willingness to kick start the new Program.
November 18, 2025
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has sent a draft Form I-140G – a petition that would be used to seek permanent residence under President Trump’s Gold Card program.
Under the Gold Card program, interested individual petitioners and corporate sponsors could make a donation to the U.S. Treasury that would render a foreign national eligible for permanent residence under the EB-1 preference category for individuals of extraordinary ability or the EB-2 National Interest Waiver category.
A donation of $1 million would be required of individual petitioners, while a donation of $2 million would be required where an employer is petitioning for a foreign beneficiary.
New details on the proposed Gold Card process
According to draft instructions to the proposed form, the government is planning a process that would entail a Gold Card application filed with the Department of Commerce;
payment of a nonrefundable $15,000 fee per applicant through pay.gov;
the filing of the now-draft Form I-140G petition with USCIS.
USCIS would use Form I-140G to assess a beneficiary’s eligibility for the new immigrant visa category and to Conduct lawful Sourcing Vetting of the donated funds.
Individuals seeking lawful permanent residence through the Gold Card program wold file a petition requesting classification as an EB-1 alien with extraordinary ability or as an EB-2 alien with exceptional ability requesting a national interest waiver within the EB-2 category.
The draft instructions do not address adjustment of status for Gold Card petition beneficiaries, though that option is expected to be available.
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