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Melania Knauss US citizenship

Melania Knauss became a US citizen in 2006 after moving to New York in the mid-1990s and obtaining an EB-1 visa

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When and how did Melania Trump obtain her initial US visa and what type was it?

Melania Trump first entered the United States in 1996 on a visitor visa (commonly described as a B‑1/B‑2), transitioned to one or more work visas later that year (her lawyers say an H‑1B effective Oct...