Thread: Melania Trump visa: Republican's wife denies rule break

Melania Trump visa: Republican's wife denies rule break

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Melania Trump, the wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has rejected suggestions that she violated visa rules when she started working as a model in New York.

In a statement she said she had followed immigration laws "at all times".

Mrs Trump has yet to clarify what type of visa she used during a 1995 photo shoot in New York.

Mr Trump has taken a hard line on illegal immigration in his campaign.

So far, the Trump campaign has refused to say exactly which visas Mrs Trump had, and when she had them.

The development comes during a turbulent week for the billionaire property developer.

There are reports of deep divisions in the Republican Party after a series of controversial statements by the nominee.

Mrs Trump said she began working as a model in the US in 1996, but nude photos published at the weekend by a New York tabloid appear to have been taken in 1995 for a now defunct French magazine.

BBC Washington correspondent Gary O'Donoghue says this discrepancy has raised questions about her immigration status at the time and whether she had the right to work.

The owner of one modelling agency, Paolo Zampolli, says he sponsored Mrs Trump for an H1B work visa in 1996.

She has said that she had to go back to her native Slovenia every few months to renew her permit - something that is only generally necessary for tourist and business visas that do not permit work.

Our correspondent says the confusion has the potential to do significant damage to Mr Trump's campaign, given his robust views on illegal immigrants.

He has also railed against the use of the H1B visa specifically, suggesting abuse of it is widespread and rampant.

Mr Trump was formally adopted last month as the Republican candidate for November's presidential election.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36981502

If you are doing work for a French company and the location of the photo-shoot happens to be selected to be New York, why would you need a work permit from the US? You would need a business visa for the business trip seems to me. You're here on a business trip for a foreign contract.

I think the Media is knocking themselves out trying to discredit the Trump family, Trump businesses, and Donald Trump. One would just have to ask why? What is your goal besides the obvious, which is to try to defame this great family with innuendo and false implications to swing the election to Crooked Hillary.

If any of you think there is any nobility in that, you are tragically mistaken. It just reveals the bias, the dishonesty, the unfairness, and the corruption of the Mainstream Media to try to defeat a candidate who wants to fix the United States by reversing the horrible policies that have caused this great decline of a once great nation.

SHAME ON YOU ALL.

STAY TRUE! STAY TRUMP!

SAVE AMERICA!

VOTE FOR DONALD J TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

This is pathetic nit picking - they are going back 20 yrs. She & Trump didn't even know each other at the time. Democratic sites are filled with just utter nonsense talk, degrading pettiness & personal attacks.

The recent spread of nude art shots involving Melania from that time period all over front pages, shows no consideration for young Barron Trump, 10 yrs old. That kind of stuff should be off limits in a presidential campaign.

She is from Europe, their beaches are topless, the mores' are different there. She considered the photographer someone of standing that could help her career. That time period was filled with pushing things to the max, more daring the better, more attention it would bring.

The media is trying so hard to discredit the Trump family, it's so obvious.

This is the same media that has ignored all of the Clinton scandals. The same media that has edited audio tapes and on an on. It is not media, it is propaganda and folks are going to get fed up with the shenanigans fast.

The 2 just published exposes of the clintons sexual misdeeds should be front page!

If the press is going to stoop to low levels with Trump, Bill's vicious rapes, his daily pick ups while jogging around the WH should be front page. Hillary & her female sexual preferences & most of all how she degraded his victims & hounded his mistresses.

And even more important is their level of corruption & the daily proof that is coming out - the media does not touch it.

We are so overdue for a clean sweep of all these clinton, obama scoundrels and what they have brought us. Our press is controlled by them! Is this America anymore?

They have certainly done their best to replace us with any criminal from south of the border or fanatic foreign muslims. Asians walking @ with dust masks on, women/girls with tightly wrapped heads, men wearing long dresses or whatever that garb is. They don't wear pants like American men do.

Walking the streets, visiting different areas, everything has changed - it is like you are in a foreign country, no one is speaking English.

Look how they treated Pat Smith, Gold Star Family, versus Khizr Khan, Gold Star Family. That tells you the corrupt bias, the dishonest and evil manipulation of the news to the point of creating news based on falsehoods. Trump never disrespected the Khan family in any way, shape or form. Clinton lies to Smith, deceives her, then ignores her, then the media doesn't even cover Smith's speech at the Convention. Also, they showed almost none of the speech of Jamiel Shaw whose son was killed by an illegal alien.

The Media is rotten to the core.