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Melania Trump's application and approval for an EB-1 'extraordinary ability' green card in 2001 and subsequent naturalization in 2006
Public reporting indicates applied for and was approved for an EB‑1 extraordinary‑ability immigrant visa around 2000–2001, became a in 2006, and lived in the on a series of temporary work visas after ...
Public reporting shows a mix of contemporaneous documents, modeling agency ledgers and immigration-law analysis that together construct a timeline: Melania Trump entered the U.S. in 1996 (commonly rep...
Public reporting shows that received a sequence of immigration approvals — a work visa period in the late 1990s, an around 2001 and naturalization in 2006 — but there is no publicly reported record in...
Melania Trump was naturalized as a U.S. citizen on July 28, 2006, a date reported consistently in public biographical sources . Public reporting does not provide a precise, publicly documented date fo...
began modeling in as a teenager, worked in and , and moved to in the mid-1990s where she continued commercial and fashion work and met ; public records and profiles credit agency ties, magazine and ad...
did not receive a green card through marriage to ; public records and statements from her lawyer indicate she was admitted as a lawful permanent resident in March 2001 after winning an employment-base...
The “extraordinary ability” green card is an elite, numerically small slice of : in 2001 just 3,376 of more than one million green cards were issued to people classified as having “extraordinary abili...
The public record assembled by major news outlets shows investigative reporting — most notably by and — that was paid for U.S. modeling work in the weeks before she had documented work authorization, ...
The publicly available record includes multiple contemporaneous news reports and a lawyer’s sworn letter asserting that first entered the on Aug. 27, 1996 on a B‑1/B‑2 visitor visa and then received a...
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder) is ordinarily eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship after five years of continuous permanent residency, with a shorter three‑year path available to tho...
Yes — Melania Trump is a naturalized U.S. citizen: multiple authoritative sources describe her as having immigrated from Slovenia and later become a U.S. citizen, including the National Archives (whic...
Donald Trump has largely avoided detailed public discussion of the specifics of Melania Trump’s immigration paperwork, instead offering short public endorsements of her projects and allowing lawyers a...