Be Best: Melania’s ‘Einstein Visa’ Was Based on Her Having a College Degree — Which She Lied About Having

Mod: Maybe she needed to lie as a kind of litmus test for entry into the Trump crime family?

Melania’s ‘Einstein Visa’ Was Based on Her Having a College Degree — Which She Lied About Having (Political Flarelink): Back in 2000, Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model dating Donald Trump, began petitioning the government for the right to permanently reside in the United States under a program reserved for people with “extraordinary ability.”

Knauss’ credentials included runway shows in Europe, a Camel cigarette billboard ad in Times Square and – in her biggest job at the time – a spot in the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated, which featured her on the beach in a string bikini, hugging a six-foot inflatable whale. She also claimed to be a college graduate.

In March 2001, she was granted a green card in the elite EB-1 program, which was designed for renowned academic researchers, multinational business executives or those in other fields, such as Olympic athletes and Oscar-winning actors, who demonstrated “sustained national and international acclaim.”

“We called it the Einstein visa,” said Bruce Morrison, a former Democratic congressman and chairman of the House subcommittee that wrote the Immigration Act of 1990 defining EB-1. The year that Knauss– now first lady Melania Trump– got her legal residency, only five people from Slovenia received green cards under the EB-1 program, according to the State Department.

In all, of the more than one million green cards issued in 2001, just 3,376 – or a fraction of one percent – were issued to immigrants with “extraordinary ability,” according to government statistics.
Melania Trump’s ability to secure her green card not only set her on the path to US citizenship, but put her in the position to sponsor the legal residency of her parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs. The Washington Post reported they obtained their own citizenship.

In January 2000, in perhaps her most widely known photo shoot, Melania Trump appeared on the cover of British GQ magazine. She was photographed nude on a fur rug on Donald Trump’s private jet under the headline, “Sex at 30,000 feet. Melania Knauss earns her air miles.” The accompanying article predicted that the political aspirations of Trump– then making a bid for the Reform Party nomination – could transform his Slovenian girlfriend into the first lady of the United States one day.

Melania Trump also claimed to be a college graduate, but that has turned out to be a lie. Melania claimed to have competed a degree in design and architecture at an unspecified university in Slovenia, her country of birth.

According to Snopes.com:

There is no “University in Slovenia,” nor is there a “University of Slovenia.” The country contains several colleges, including the University of Ljubljana, which other news outlets have reported (without citation) was where Melania obtained her degree. But while the claim that she possesses a degree in Architecture and Design appears on several web sites, these reports lack specific details, such as the year she graduated.

Mod: There is much more at the link.

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