"Melania Trump was granted a green card in 2001 under the EB-1 visa, often referred to as the "Einstein visa," which is designed for individuals with "extraordinary ability" and "sustained national and international acclaim." This visa allowed her to later sponsor her parents for U.S. citizenship."
Her being the bad guy and part of the bad tribe does not justify spreading this misinformation or propaganda for the past decade.
EB-1 is not a "genius" visa, it's a visa for people who fulfill requirements related to reaching a notable level of acclaim, importance or success.
If you don't have a petitioner or one of the highest awards, you need to qualify on 3 out of 10 conditions; And if you know them, it's quite obvious that the legal interpretation of each one can get murky at times, especially in the field of arts.
So Melania is merely a well-known example of the very likely intended subjectivity of that visa.
Yeah I like knowing more details of the process, but I don't see how that information necessarily contradicts the original premise besides the "genius" part being slightly inaccurate
The "genius" or "einstein" visa is just a very well-known nickname. One must still meet extraordinary requiments - which she obviously did not. For example, the Green Card is not a "green card" it's just a nickname for the Permanent Resident Card, issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) as Form I-551.
"TheEinstein visa is a nickname*, not an official visa. Most often it refers to the EB-1A green card for people with extraordinary ability, and sometimes to the O-1 work visa. The name is misleading, because you do not have to be a Nobel-level genius to qualify. The real standard is being among the small percentage at the top of your field, shown either by one major award or by meeting at least three of ten kinds of achievement. Founders, scientists, engineers, artists, and athletes use it. Whether your record qualifies is case-specific, and the name scares off many people who could actually meet the bar.*
We are talking about Melania here, not Cindy Crawford.
If if by some incredible stretch of logic you would include a fashion model in the EB-1A, where was Melaina of the top of that class, even on her best days? She was a cheap escort/hostess who posed for nude photos.
If if by some incredible stretch of logic you would include a fashion model in the EB-1A
The logic is the law as written.
No one's defending MT here, so no one cares about your personal feelings.
I'm asking what the legal standard is. What magazines qualify, what pages, what locations of billboards, what renumeration, etc.
Even if they tried to paint a rosy picture of her moderate carrier, she still reached a certain level (Sports Illustrated, British GQ, Times Square) and you need a proper reasoning what's enough and what's not.
Legally you are possibly correct that with the right lawyers and a strong vouching (she was publically dating Trump) she could have got the visa in 2000-2001. I was looking at current standards and certain loopholes were closed in 2010.
Trump was deeply connected with "modeling" executives at the time, including ones who brought her to the US. They could have easily been what got her over the finish line.
So which field in sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics did she reach a notable level of acclaim, importance, or success when she was granted an EB-1 visa?
Particularly given that quite a bit of her modeling would have happened illegally under a travel visa that forbade her working.
Isn't Melania a Red Sparrow? She's Trumps handler. I'll try to find the link I read. It had to do with the report that MI6 (UK intelligence agency) put out in 2015 when Trump was running the first time. It's how we know his code name was Krasnov.
MC2 (pronounced MC squared) was the modeling agency that Epstein, Brunel, and the mob would use to get trafficked girls into the US with “genius visas”
Nicknamed the "Einstein Visa", the EB-1 is in theory reserved for people who are highly acclaimed in their field - the government cites Pulitzer, Oscar, and Olympic winners as examples - as well as respected academic researchers and multinational executives.
Mrs Trump began applying for the visa in 2000, when she was Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model working in New York and dating Donald Trump. She was approved in 2001, one of just five people from Slovenia to win the coveted visa that year, according to the Post.
While President Donald Trump has dismissed his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, The New York Times reported that Epstein has claimed he introduced Trump to his third wife, Melania.
According to the 11-page, heavily redacted record, a former Epstein assistant — who worked for him from 2005 to 2006 — told federal authorities that Epstein "introduced MELANIA TRUMP to DONALD TRUMP," in files seen by The Daily Beast.
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u/LIONLDN 7h ago
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