San Bernardino shooting: K-1 fiance visa is an open door for jihadi terrorists

BPR: Terror bride used fake address on visa application; State Dept. had no idea, but reporter finds it in hours

Is this the vetting process President Obama wants us to trust for Syrian refugees?

The terrorist bride who went on a killing spree in San Bernardino on Wednesday, got into the country with a “fiance visa” on which she used a fake address and still the State Department can see no problem with the vetting process.

Not only did Tashfeen Malik use a fake address, she listed her home town as a town that doesn’t even exist, ABC News reported.

Still, our government let her in.

When State Department spokesperson Elizabeth Trudeau was asked Friday is she was satisfied with the application process that led to Malik getting into the country she said that she was.
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BPR: San Bernardino shooter used immigration system to get terrorist wife to US with little difficulty

By Jacob Bojesson

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.

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.

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