The plaintiffs are asking the court to declare the Gold Card program unlawful and to halt its implementation.

"By conditioning access on payment, the Gold Card program allows visas to be bought, and thereby takes visas away from the people to whom federal statute specifies they should be awarded."

The suit asks that a judge find the pay-for-play visa program unlawful, casting it as another example of the Trump administration’s seeking to bypass Congress.

The AAUP and a group of immigrant professionals today filed a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s “Gold Card” visa program, which unlawfully sells US residency to wealthy individuals while pushing aside scientists,

Nicki Minaj flashed a Trump Gold Card online, claiming it helped her with citizenship. Officials now say it’s just a souvenir.

A lawsuit has challenged Trump's Gold Card visa program, calling it an illegal fast lane for wealthy foreigners, irrespective of merit while researchers and scientists are waiting in the backlogged queue.

American Association of University Professors allege the $1 million Gold Card visas violate the federal Immigration and Nationalization Act.