![]() ![]() Get it from the Apple app store or the Google Play store. Reading this on your phone? Stay up to date with our free mobile app. Maybe exceptions would be made for immigrants like Melania, as American journalist Julia Ioffe pointed out in an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. ![]() She might get 6 to 10 points for having what were probably “moderate” to “good” English-language skills at the time she moved to the United States.īut she’d get zero points for not having a high-paying job waiting for her for probably not having the ability to invest more than $1.35 million in the United States and for never winning a Nobel Prize, Olympic medal or other international award.Īt best, Melania could probably score about 21 points, so there would be no visa for her. According to the Time test, she would get: 10 points for being 26 to 30 years old but only 1 point for having a high school diploma. Like our Facebook page for more conversation and news coverage from the Bay Area and beyond.Īlas, Melania wouldn’t do much better. He’d only score points for entrepreneurial initiative. Washington Post opinion writer Catherine Rampell humorously noted that if Trump were an immigrant, he would probably would fail the test, given his age, the fact he only has a bachelor’s degree, his lack of of “extraordinary achievement” in terms of honors, and his questionable proficiency with the English language. Time magazine has an online test people can take to find out if they could pass the test. And no, Melania Trump had not been awarded a Nobel Prize or Olympic medal. Meanwhile, there’s nothing in publicly available records to indicate she had a high-paying modeling job waiting for her in the United States. So, with regard to the new proposed immigration requirements, she’d only be able to say she had a foreign equivalent of a high school diploma. Meanwhile, she claimed for a long time that she had received a college degree in her native Slovenia but scrubbed such a claim from her official White House biography, saying she “paused her studies” at the University of Ljubljana “to advance her modeling career in Milan and Paris.” She probably spoke some English - enough to travel in the United States and that would get her some points, but would she be fluent at that point? That’s questionable. ![]() The newly proposed Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act aims to reduce the number of low-skilled immigrants who are allotted green cards by 50 percent and would impose a merit-based system, grading aspiring immigrants according to specifics such as age, education, English-language ability, high-paying job offers, international honors and commitment to entrepreneurship. ![]() There’s some question about whether she did some modeling work before getting her H-1B visa as well as how she obtained a green card in 2001 - due to her “extraordinary ability as a model,” it was said - before marrying Trump in 2006 and becoming an U.S. A few months later, she obtained an H-1B visa for “skilled workers,” according to the Associated Press. Subsequent reporting showed that Melania first came to the United States on a tourist visa in August 1996. Melania’s immigration history first faced scrutiny last summer when nude photos, taken of her when she first came to the United States, were published in the New York Post questions arose over whether the photos were taken when she was just here on a tourist visa. That’s because, if such a system were in place when Melania first moved to the United States in 1996, she wouldn’t stand a chance of being able to stay, start a career as a fashion model or meet a rich husband. In the past week, the president has endorsed a new “merit-based” immigration bill, an endorsement that could prompt renewed scrutiny into the first lady’s immigration history. Melania Trump: 10 fun facts about our new first lady’s fabulous, scandalous life ![]()
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