Melania Trump denied she broke any immigration laws when she first modelled professionally in the U.S., in the latest controversy to hit her husband Donald’s presidential campaign.
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Additionally, Melania Trump has claimed that she went back and forth between Europe and the USA every few months in order to renew her visa.
In short, Melania Trump has said in repeated interviews that she would return to Slovenia periodically before becoming a citizen to renew her paperwork for time in the U.S.
Melania Trump, who is married to a man who has described illegal immigration as hurting us “from every standpoint”, may have been an undocumented worker in the United States at onepoint.
Sharing details of her immigration routine, Mrs. Trump mentioned that she came on an H-1B visa, which allows foreigners to work in the U.S., and never meant to violate the law.
POLITICO notes that Melania’s version of events sounds more like a B-1 Temporary Business Visitor or B-2 Tourist Visa that are only valid up to six months and do not allow that person to be employed. The H-1B visa is generally for jobs requiring special skills and at least a bachelor’s degree, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.
Another inconsistency can be seen with regards to the year she arrived in the country; whereas she said she came to NY in 1996, her photo shoot and a biography published by Slovenian journalists in February suggests she arrived in 1995.
Melania would have been working in the country illegally in this case.
Donald and Melania Trump have consistently maintained she entered the United States legally in 1996, so the date of this photo shoot seems to contradict this.
Melania Trump, the wife of Donald Trump, has denied that she broke visa rules when modeling in NY, the BBC says.
Up until now, the narrative has been that Melania met Donald Trump in 1998.
Melania Trump – she of Slovenia, a glamorous past and a husband running for the White House – has denied allegations that she violated visa rules when she entered the United States.
Writer Mickey Rapkin, who interviewed Melania for a May profile in the luxury lifestyle magazine DuJour, said she confirmed as much to him.
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Donald, as the world is well aware, has been slammed repeatedly for his harsh stance on immigration, including a proposal to build a wall (funded by Mexico) on the U.S-Mexican border. I came back. I applied for the green card. The fact that the Trump campaign has not made any move to release the actual records, however, is consistent with its refusal to release any records whatsoever, including the Republican nominee’s tax returns.
