San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik's visa approved despite not meeting requirements
- 8 years ago
SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA — The fiancée visa application file for San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik reveals that immigration officials did not thoroughly examine the paperwork before approving her documents, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte said.
The file indicates that San Bernardino shooters Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook met through an online website. After weeks of emailing, the couple decided to meet in person. Farook and Malik met in Mecca, Saudi Arabia during the Hajj on October, 3, 2013. They became engaged on the same day. A year later, the couple married on September 8 in Riverside, California.
Approval for a fiancée visa in the U.S. requires the applicant to have met his or her significant other in person at least two years prior to filing the application. However, passport stamps show Malik arrived in Saudi Arabia on June 4, 2013, on a 60-day visa, with an illegible exit date while Farook’s entry stamps show he was there from Oct 1 to Oct. 20, 2013. Goodlatte said the immigration official did not do enough to screen Malik’s application and alleged that the stamps on both shooters’ passports cannot prove that they were at Saudi Arabia at the same time.
Investigators also discovered after the December 2 shooting, Malik began sending private messages on social media expressing sympathy for the Islamist militancy before her U.S. visa was approved, reported Reuters.
A spokesperson for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services maintained the couple met all the requirements for Malik to receive a fiancée visa, and that officials thoroughly vet every application.
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The file indicates that San Bernardino shooters Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook met through an online website. After weeks of emailing, the couple decided to meet in person. Farook and Malik met in Mecca, Saudi Arabia during the Hajj on October, 3, 2013. They became engaged on the same day. A year later, the couple married on September 8 in Riverside, California.
Approval for a fiancée visa in the U.S. requires the applicant to have met his or her significant other in person at least two years prior to filing the application. However, passport stamps show Malik arrived in Saudi Arabia on June 4, 2013, on a 60-day visa, with an illegible exit date while Farook’s entry stamps show he was there from Oct 1 to Oct. 20, 2013. Goodlatte said the immigration official did not do enough to screen Malik’s application and alleged that the stamps on both shooters’ passports cannot prove that they were at Saudi Arabia at the same time.
Investigators also discovered after the December 2 shooting, Malik began sending private messages on social media expressing sympathy for the Islamist militancy before her U.S. visa was approved, reported Reuters.
A spokesperson for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services maintained the couple met all the requirements for Malik to receive a fiancée visa, and that officials thoroughly vet every application.
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