Melania Trump is perhaps the most powerful immigrant in the White House. The first lady and former model, born Melania Knauss, moved to New York from Slovenia in 1996 when she was 26 years old.
In 2001, while dating Donald Trump, she received a green card under the EB-1 program, receiving what is sometimes called the "Einstein visa," which grants legal status to those who can prove "sustained national and international acclaim."
Melania sponsored legal residency for her parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, who became US citizens in August 2018 under the "chain migration" policy, the family-based immigration program that President Trump has long condemned.