"Have used the program"

means someone who pays the money and gets a visa at the end which allows them to enter the US. Green card equivalent, or citizenship, or residency/working visa, via the money they spend on the program. So, it's a market for citizenship with a fairly visible price, where the price is the primary means used to make transactions (rather than committees, etc.) and transactions happen quickly.

Definition of the program:

• It has to be primarily "pay + pass screening, and you get it by default". Not some kind of "holistic application, with scholarships, bonuses, applying for financial aid to pay for it, plus money, plus tests, and/or investment, or some vector of those items" as it is now. It has to be much more like a market for visa/citizenship/right to work/passport in the US to qualify.

"Mid X year"

means end of june 30, that year, CA time.

On prices

• If there is "normal" mode and "expedited" mode, we will use "normal mode", as long as anyone has done it.

• Prices are all nominal, no inflation adjustment will be done

On names

• If they change the name but it's substantially the same thing, that can still count, we just reinterpret what the claim meant by "gold visa".