House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said this week that immigration officials did not thoroughly evaluate Malik and is working on legislation to beef up security checks on visa applicants.
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The application file for San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik’s fiancée visa reveals her American husband provided the USA government with minimal evidence to prove their relationship – yet it was good enough for immigration officials to approve her visa.
Malik, who was from Pakistan but had lived in Saudi Arabia, came to the U.S. last summer on a “fiancé” visa and later obtained a Green Card, U.S. officials have said.
After Malik arrived in the U.S.in July 2014, she married Farook and applied for a lawful permanent residency visa.
The documents were a statement from Farook saying they had first met in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during the Hajj pilgrimage in 2013, as well as copies of their passports containing visas and stamps for the the Saudi Arabia trip. “We have reviewed the suspect’s immigration file, and found that it included relevant evidence such as passport stamps, biographic data, and translated Saudi visas submitted in response to USCIS’s request for further evidence”, said Conyers.
The statement is signed by Farook and dated January 20, 2014.
The US House Judiciary Committee has released visa documents. detailing Malik’s processing into the US, after some lawmakers criticised the progress. She was born in Pakistan but grew up in Saudi Arabia, returning to Pakistan to pursue a pharmacy degree at Bahauddin Zakariya University.
Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau, a State Department spokesperson, responded that “all required procedures were followed in the K-1 visa case for Ms. Malik”.
“Visa security is critical to national security, and it’s unacceptable that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services did not fully vet Malik’s application and instead sloppily approved her visa”, according to the statement posted on Goodlatte’s website.
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Also on Tuesday, Reuters reported that Malik denied having any militant sympathies or intentions when she was asked in an application form for a USA visa two years ago, according to documents described to Reuters.
