House set to tighten restrictions on visa-free travel to US

A K-1 visa allows the individual to come to the United States and be married within 90 days, making him or her eligible for a green card and putting the individual on the path to eventual citizenship.

A White House official told Politico that Obama was supposed to say “visa program”.

While Farook, 28, was a USA citizen, Tashfeen was in the United States on a Pakistani passport and had a K1 “fiance visa”, David Bowdich, assistant director of the Los Angeles Federal Bureau of Investigation office had said.

A vote in the House is set for Tuesday (Wednesday, NZT).

Even reading from his trusty teleprompter, President Barack Obama made a huge error in his Sunday night address to the nation on terror. “And we’re working with members of both parties in Congress to do exactly that”.

But he added quickly “that discussion should keep sight of the fact that the program has played a key role in the US security framework, and should not be unduly undermined”. The measure would bar citizens or nationals of the waiver countries from coming to the US without a visa if, in the past five years, they have been to Iraq, Syria or any other designated “country or area of concern”.

Obama raised the waiver program on Sunday as one of several proposals on which he urged Congress to take action.

U.S. Travel Association President Roger Dow said in a statement the House bill’s more limited approach would bring “thoughtful solutions that will enhance America’s security”, and it warned against “knee-jerk” restrictions that could harm tourism to the U.S.

“She was issued the K-1 visa – which is normally given to fiance – by the US Embassy in Islamabad”.