Melania Trump is a dual citizen of Slovenia and the United States. She was born Melanija Knavs (Melania Knauss) in Novo Mesto, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) in 1970. In 1996 she moved to the United States for her modeling career. After a long courtship, she married Donald Trump in 2005, and the following year she became a U.S. citizen. In 2018 her parents also became U.S. citizens through family-based immigration, a path to citizenship called “chain migration” by critics.
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