United States · Residency by investment
Trump Platinum Card
NOT LAW AND NOT OPERATING. Announced alongside the Gold Card and advertised on trumpcard.gov, but only a wait list exists — no applications are being processed. It was not created by Executive Order 14351 or any other order. Commerce Secretary Lutnick has publicly conceded that, unlike the H-1B fee and the Gold Card, the Platinum Card requires congressional approval — because its core promise is a tax rule, and only Congress writes the Internal Revenue Code.
This is the only proposal on the table anywhere that would let a non-citizen spend 270 days a year in the United States without triggering worldwide US taxation — which is precisely why it cannot be done by executive order. Treat every marketing claim about it as speculative until a bill passes both chambers.
Qualifying routes
Plus USD 15,000 processing fee. Advertised as allowing up to 270 days per year in the US without US tax on non-US income.
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $5M
- Total landed cost
- USD 5,015,000 as advertised — but nothing is purchasable today beyond a wait-list registration
- Physical presence
- Advertised at up to 270 days per year in the US
- Family
- unspecified — no rules have been published
- Permanent residency
- unspecified
- Citizenship
- unspecified
- Language test
- n/a
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- none published
- Requires an Act of Congress to deliver its central benefit; no bill has passed.
- The 270-day promise directly contradicts the substantial presence test in §7701(b). Absent statute, anyone spending 270 days a year in the US is a US tax resident on worldwide income.
- Wait-list registration is not an application and confers no rights or priority.
- Any adviser quoting a Platinum Card timeline or benefit as settled is selling, not advising.