The more interesting Melania story is about her immigration status in the 1990s.
It seems probable, given her repeated public statements that she had to return to Europe every few months to renew her visa, that she came to the United States on a B-1 or B-2 visa, a type of visa that prohibits employment, and then worked as a model. In order to renew this visa, she would have had to have lied about her work repeatedly and this would have impacted her later application for a green card, had it been known.
There has been a suggestion that she came on an H-1B visa, which would have made her employment legal, but such a visa does not require frequent renewals of the kind she described. Trump wants to shut H-1Bs down.
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