[moralestapia]

You cannot jump over immigration requirements "just because you're powerful", and the vast majority of them are not US citizens.

[londons_explore]

They could easily get an E2 entrepreneur visa, and the necessary cash is as little as $300k, most of which can be withdrawn later, so it's effectively a free citizenship as long as you have cash.

[EduardoBautista]

E2 visa is not available to everyone. Notably Indian and Chinese citizens are not eligible. And that is a large chunk of international students.

[ndsipa_pomu]

You could probably get round immigration requirements by "gifting" a jet or something

[mandmandam]

> You cannot jump over immigration requirements

You probably will be able to soon though, and it 'only' costs $5m: "A ‘Trump Card Visa’ Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms" [0]

I couldn't blame you for not having seen this though. It was quickly flagged and never whitelisted; like so, so many other important stories here this past few months. Check my favorites for more falsely flagged stories.

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43921421

[anigbrowl]

[delayed]