Melania Trump, the wife of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, on Wednesday released a letter from an immigration attorney saying that she came to the country "100 percent" legally amid questions over whether she illegally worked in the U.S. before she was granted a work visa.
The letter "states that with 100 (percent) certainty, I correctly went through the legal process when arriving in the USA," Melania Trump said in a statement released with the letter.
The two-page document, written by attorney Michael Wildes and dated Wednesday, refutes reports that Melania Trump worked in 1995 as a model in New York, a year before she claimed to have come to the country.
"Contrary to published reports, Mrs. Trump never worked in the United States in 1995 because she was never in the United States in 1995," Wildes wrote.
Multiple media outlets questioned whether Melania Trump, who was born and raised in Slovenia, came to the country legally after a series of racy photographs said to have been taken in New York in 1995 resurfaced last month.
According to The New York Post, the first outlet to republish the images, the photos appeared in the January 1996 issue of the now-defunct French men's monthly Max magazine.
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"In 1995 she started coming to the USA according to the jobs she was getting at fashion agencies," journalist Bojan Pozar told Politico. Pozar co-authored "Melania Trump: The Inside Story," a biography that was released in February.
"We don't know the exact dates of those before she officially settled in New York, but her visits prior to that were temporary business opportunities that she had as a model," Pozar said. He told Politico he learned of the jobs from a pair of European fashion agents.
"Because Mrs. Trump did not enter the United States until Aug. 27, 1996, the allegation that she participated in a photo shoot in 1995 is not only untrue, it is impossible," Wildes wrote in the letter released by Melania Trump. "In reality, through an interview with Mrs. Trump, we ascertained that the photo shoot in question did not occur until after she was admitted to the United States in H-1B visa status in October 1996."
Wildes said Melania Trump "self-sponsored" herself to get her green card rather than getting it through her marriage. She became a citizen in 2006.
Donald Trump has spoken harshly against illegal immigration several times on the campaign trail. He has placed ending illegal immigration and increasing border protection among his top issues.
He promised a news conference last month to address his wife's immigration status, according to The Hill. However, no news conference has been scheduled.
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