Visa application of San Bernardino shooter released

The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday released a redacted copy of the petition for an alien fiancee visa that was filed for Malik, giving Farook’s Riverside address on Tomlinson Avenue.

Malik’s file includes copies of their Saudi passport stamps and translations of Saudi visas, as well as a two-paragraph statement from Farook saying the two had met with their parents at a house belonging to one of Malik’s relatives in Mecca.

Farook wrote that he met Malik in person in October 2013 in Saudi Arabia, where he had traveled for the Hajj: “My fiancé and her family drove from Riyadh to Mecca so that we could meet and it is on this day that we got engaged”.

Authorities say Farook and Malik opened fire and killed 14 people on December 2 at a luncheon attended by his colleagues in the San Bernardino public health department.

“All required procedures were followed in the processing of Tashfeen Malik’s immigration file before the case was referred to the U.S. Embassy for visa processing”, the official said.

U.S.-born Farook and Pakistan native Malik met through an online website, according to a statement from Farook included in the application.

The immigration official reviewing Malik’s visa application requested that the passport stamps be translated into English to confirm that they were in Saudi Arabia at the same time, but Malik’s immigration file does not contain an English translation of the passport stamps.

The application file for San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik’s fiancée visa reveals her American husband provided the US government with minimal evidence to prove their relationship – yet it was good enough for immigration officials to approve her visa. The couple died in a shootout with police a few hours later. The House Judiciary Committee is investigating the issuance of Malik’s visa by Homeland Security officials. “After several weeks of emailing, we chose to meet each other”, Farook wrote. Malik’s passport shows a Saudi Arabian entry stamp dated approximately June 4, 2013.

“We made a decision to have both our families meet on Thursday, October 3rd, 2013…”, ” he wrote.

“Even if Farook and Malik were in Saudi Arabia at the same time, this does not provide evidence that they met in person”, Goodlatte wrote.

Malik came to the United States on a fiancee visa. It’s unclear when exactly in 2013 she left.

“Visa security is critical to national security, and it’s unacceptable that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services did not fully vet Malik’s application and instead sloppily approved her visa”, according to the statement posted on Goodlatte’s website.