NEW YORK: US First Lady Melania Trump’s Slovenian parents have become American citizens after taking the citizenship oath here using a family visa program her husband Donald Trump has repeatedly denounced as “chain migration” and sought to end.
Melania’s parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, were sworn in as US citizens at a federal immigration court in New York City. The pair had been living in the US on green cards sponsored by their daughter Melania.
“Once they had the green card, they then applied for citizenship when they were eligible,” the couple’s lawyer Michael Wildes was quoted as saying by ‘The New York Times’
Asked if the Knavses had obtained citizenship through “chain migration”, Wildes, said, “I suppose. It’s a dirty, a dirtier word,” he said, adding that “it stands for a bedrock of our immigration process when it comes to family reunification.”
Trump has vehemently opposed the family-based or what he called “chain immigration” in the past. The program allows adult American citizens obtain citizenship for their relatives. PTI
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