In an interview, Paolo Zampolli gave a detailed account of how Trump arrived in the country.
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The questions surrounding Trump’s immigration status come as an ironic blow to her husband’s campaign.
This could place Mr Trump in a politically damaging position, with his strong opposition to illegal immigration being one of the strong foundations of his presidential run.
Could Donald Trump-a man who has predicated his entire presidential campaign on attacking the evils of illegal immigration-be married to an immigrant who entered the country under false pretenses and violated U.S. laws?
The photos raise questions over whether Trump worked as a model illegally before getting a work visa.
Melania Trump has rejected suggestions that she violated visa rules when she started working as a model in NY.
In a January profile in Harper’s Bazaar, Trump said she would return home from NY to renew her visa every few months.
Schreckinger stated that there’s enough inconsistencies in her story that “there’s a good chance” she’s in the USA illegally. “That is just the person you are”, she told the New Yorker in 2016.
As Politico notes, Trump previously told Harper’s Bazaar and MSNBC that she never stayed in the U.S. I had a visa.
They concluded that Melania’s story was actually more consistent with someone traveling on a B-1 Temporary Business Visitor or B-2 Tourist Visa.
If she had an H-1B work visa, as has been reported, she would not have been required to return to her native country that frequently. This kind of visa would not allow Trump to work here as a model.
Melania Trump’s 1995 shoot has cast doubt over her immigration status. “Period. Any allegation to the contrary is simply untrue”, she said.
An immigration lawyer revealed that Melania Trump received a green card for marriage in 2001, four years before she married Donald TrumpDonald Trump Biden tries to boost Wasserman Schultz in Fla. Trump’s campaign has declined repeated requests this week to clarify her comments or say which visa she held then.
Melania Trump denied the report in a tweet Thursday morning.
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“They come to meet the client to see if they really should come to NY”, he said, noting that the process often includes taking photos to build a portfolio to attract bigger-name modelling contracts. There is a special category of H-1B visa for fashion models “of distinguished merit and ability”. To get into the lottery, foreign workers had to have sponsorship from a prospective employer as well as pay a hefty $325 fee. Photographer Jarl Ale de Basseville said he and the models did the free work to get exposure in the well-known French magazine.
