melania trump eb-1 through GC anta

[tom bhayya]

 

How hard was it for the first lady to obtain a visa reserved for immigrants of "extraordinary ability"?

On Thursday, The Washington Post explored the subject in some detail, and questioned whether Melania Trump, then Melania Knauss, was really qualified for a visa through the EB-1 program. The visas, according to the Post, were "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," former Rep. Bruce Morrisson, who helped write the bill that created the EB-1 program in 1990, told the Post. 

However, according to a lawyer who specializes in obtaining EB-1 and EB-2 visas for her clients, the visas don't just go to the Albert Einsteins of the world. In fact, they're "not that difficult" to obtain, immigration lawyer Merrill R. Cohen told CBS News.

Cohen has helped squash players, a colored-pencil artist, a "classical music whistler," and an "instructor of magicians" get EB-1 visas. Melania Trump never held any of those jobs, but she was a relatively well-known model, in part due to her relationship with President Trump, when she began petitioning the government for an EB-1 in 2000. 

In January 2000, for example, she appeared nude and draped in a fur rug on the cover of British GQ. "Sex at 30,000 feet – Melania Knauss earns her air miles," said the headline. She was also a runway model who appeared on a billboard in Times Square and in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.

 

Applicants for an EB-1 visa need to meet three of ten listed criteria or have won a major award in their field. The criteria to prove extraordinary ability include "commercial successes in the performing arts," the ability to "command a high salary or significantly high remuneration compared to others in the field," and having your work "displayed at artistic exhibitions or showcases."

However, Cohen said that you don't need to make money performing your "extraordinary ability," so long as you have other means of supporting yourself.

"We do a lot of squash players," she said. "They don't make a lot of money at the profession, but they win top prizes, and there's lots of published material about them…Mostly, they have day jobs as financial analysts."

Also, while the examples listed by the government of a major one-time prize are the "Pulitzer, Oscar, [or] Olympic medal," Cohen said the awards can be far more obscure than any of those. "You know promos before movies? We had a guy who did a lot of promos, and he won the Gold Promax International Award…we showed that that was the top prize in the field, and he got his green card based on winning that prize."

As for the classical music whistler, Cohen said that immigration authorities realized that it was a unique talent, but "they wanted to know that it was actually a field. So we showed that there were literally 10 people in the National Classical Music Whistler's Association, and he had been president, so they saw that it was a field, and we got it through."

Cohen also proved a colored-pencil artist was at the top of her field even though she had never sold a picture. "To be at the top of the field, you can decide you never want to sell a piece of art," Cohen said. "This client never wanted to sell her work, but she would display it in galleries and she got written up in the paper because she had a unique technique."

Cohen said it's impossible to judge whether Melania Trump deserved an EB-1 without taking a look at her application, which is not public and Cohen has not seen. "There might have been a lot of evidence that we're not aware of," she said.

Still, based on the available evidence, Cohen says someone like Melania Trump would "likely qualify" for an EB-1.

"While [the EB-1 category] is arguably the highest standard to which an alien is held when applying for a green card, it isn't meant to be limited to a single individual or two. Rather...it is reserved for that 'small percentage' of people at the top of the field. A model on the cover of GQ, and in Sports Illustrated, etc. will likely qualify, as he/she will likely have a lot more evidence tha

[LordOfMud]

Melania Knauss featured on the Ocean Drive cover from April 1999

[tom bhayya]

[Raasko]

1 minute ago, tom bhayya said:

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[LordOfMud]

Eighteen years ago profiled then-girlfriend Melania Knauss. Now wife, featured in a naked profile shoot on his customized Boeing 727 wearing handcuffs, wielding diamonds and holding a chrome pistol (it was the lads mag era after all). It makes for some interesting reading today.

[boeing747]

Jai dump thatha

[WHAT]

50 minutes ago, LordOfMud said:

Eighteen years ago profiled then-girlfriend Melania Knauss. Now wife, featured in a naked profile shoot on his customized Boeing 727 wearing handcuffs, wielding diamonds and holding a chrome pistol (it was the lads mag era after all). It makes for some interesting reading today.

[katuri]

bro dont post this type of stuff u will be in trouble she is first lady

[Batman_fan]

6 minutes ago, katuri said:

bro dont post this type of stuff u will be in trouble she is first lady

eh item db ki protection kuda

[dasara_bullodu]

9 minutes ago, katuri said:

bro dont post this type of stuff u will be in trouble she is first lady

Copy paste ki trouble endi naa bongu...

Emaina trouble unte @afdb__sai ki @psycopk ki untadi

[Raasko]

9 minutes ago, katuri said:

bro dont post this type of stuff u will be in trouble she is first lady

  aallanee  eellanee soostey emostadi vayya.....annee ippukoni koosuntey...first ayinaa lat ayinaa....no parakh vayya....

adey ippukoni koosundi.....manam ipputallam gaa....mallee maatlaaditey...asalu sump thaata ney ippa deesi kooso bettaadu....so ....@care

[uttermost]

immigration gurinchi Indians maatladinantha ga evaru maatladaru anukunta.

including those who are on the verge of being deported.

[LastManStanding]

Edemaina mana cts,tcs eb1s kante chala better ye eeme..inka 25k pending lo unnaratnta 2017 ki..cha galeez gallu

[Teluguvadu8888]

13 hours ago, Raasko said:

  aallanee  eellanee soostey emostadi vayya.....annee ippukoni koosuntey...first ayinaa lat ayinaa....no parakh vayya....

adey ippukoni koosundi.....manam ipputallam gaa....mallee maatlaaditey...asalu sump thaata ney ippa deesi kooso bettaadu....so ....@care

VUUUUUUUU

[WHAT]

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