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Showing posts with label K-1 visa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label K-1 visa. Show all posts

Sunday, December 6, 2015

If Our Vetting Was Good, Malik Would Never Had Been Able To Come To The US

Something HUGE Was Just Revealed About Female CA Shooter That Should Make Every American Question Obama

How did she get in the country?
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The Pakistan-born woman who pledged loyalty to ISIS and helped her husband slaughter 14 victims in Wednesday’s terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif., was given the green light to enter the United States despite using a false address in her paperwork.
Tashfeen Malik, 29, who police theorize radicalized her husband, Syed Farook, cleared two rounds of criminal and national security background checks before she obtained her K-1 fiancĂ© visa and later a resident green card. Officials said Friday that the background checks turned up no negative information but that in light of Wednesday’s massacre a review of the process use to vet her has begun.

On Saturday, ABC News reported that the documentation Malik used contained a false address for her home in Pakistan.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said changes must take place to protect America.
“We’re going to have to start looking at people very closely because we can’t allow this to happen to our country,” Trump said. “I’m not ruling out anything. I don’t rule out anything. If people come in and blow up people and shoot people and kill people, I don’t rule out anything.”

Malik’s easy entry comes as Americans have voiced concerns about the government’s process for vetting immigrants in light of the Obama administration’s proposal to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees into America.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, speaking as details of Malik’s visa were emerging, said that if officials fully vetted Mailk it should help end the debate over the Syrian refugees.
“Now if that vetting resulted in missing someone who carried out such a horrendous crime, that should be the end of the argument right there,” Carson said.
Fellow GOP candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has demanded a full and public disclosure of how an ISIS follower was allowed into the United States.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest claimed the K-1 vetting process was less strict than that for potential refugees. But that’s the problem, say some activists.
“Uncle Sam just looks on as an approving cupid and doesn’t pay as much attention as he should to the issuance of these visas,” said David North, a senior fellow with the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for stricter immigration policies.
To get her visa, Mailk was screened in 2014 using the State Department’s watch lists and immigration, counter-terror and criminal databases at the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. After arrival, she was screened once again to get her green card. The card was issue to her in July.
In the past, Obama said he will not back down from his support for Syrian refugees and downplayed security concerns.
“Even as we accept more refugees, including Syrians, we do so only after subjecting them to rigorous screenings and security checks,” he said.
However, Obama’s own administration has contradicted him on that score.
“We may have someone who is not on our radar and someone may choose to do something bad after they get here,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has said. “We can only query against what we have collected, so if someone hasn’t made a ripple in the pond, we can check our databases until the cows come home but we have no record on that person.”

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Thanks To Our Failed Immigration System, Farook Is Able To Get His Co-Conspirator Into The US


San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s ability to bring a Pakistani wife to the country through an online relationship exposes loopholes in the U.S. immigration system terrorist organizations can capitalize on.
Farook and Tashfeen Malik met on a dating website and maintained an online relationship prior to Malik coming to the U.S. in July, 2014. Malik, a Pakistani citizen, entered the country on a K-1 visa, commonly known as a fiance visa.
Numbers from the U.S. Department of State show the K-1 visa has a much higher admittance rate than practically any other type of visa, the Daily Caller News Foundation found.
David North, a fellow at The Center for Immigration Studies, warned about the outstanding acceptance rate years ago, and says it keeps climbing with very few cases being rejected.
“It is highly unlikely not to obtain a K-1 visa no matter what the procedure is,” North tells The Daily Caller News Foundation. “The State Department is much more likely to say no to practically and kind of visa that comes before them.”
Data on admittance rates for each visa category from the State Department show the K-1 visa only had 118 rejections out of 36,425 applications in 2014. This ratio of 1:308 can be compared to the most popular categories of the B-1 tourist and business visa (1:6.5) and the F-1 student visa (1:5.7). Even visa categories that apply to diplomats gaining entry to the U.S., such as the A-1 (1:74), have approval ratings far below the K-1.
“That suggests to me either that all these brides and grooms are really pure, or that the system is less vigorous,” North tells TheDCNF.
The only categories that had higher approval ratings in 2010 were the NATO-1 to 7 which are issued to NATO officials. Even this visa category is now behind the K-1 with about 293 approvals for every rejection last year.
The eligibility requirements for obtaining a K-1 visa are also much more relaxed compared to other visa categories. A checklist on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ website gives the following requirements for eligibility:
You (the petitioner) are a U.S. citizen.
You intend to marry within 90 days of your fiancé(e) entering the United States.
You and your fiancé(e) are both free to marry and any previous marriages must have been legally terminated by divorce, death, or annulment.
You met each other, in person, at least once within 2 years of filing your petition.
Even if the couple fails to meet the last criteria of having met in person, they can still file a waiver if they qualify for at least one of two exception.
1. If the requirement to meet would violate strict and long-established customs of your or your fiancĂ©(e)’s foreign culture or social practice.
2. If you prove that the requirement to meet would result in extreme hardship to you.
An advantage K-1 applicants face is they are endorsed by a U.S. citizen, which may instill trust in the person handling the case.
“The image of somebody that is about to married to a U.S. citizen is a pretty high image,” he says.

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