Donald Trump’s in-laws become US citizens

The parents of Melania Trump have reportedly been granted US citizenship in a private ceremony in Manhattan, under an immigration policy that Donald Trump has previously vehemently denounced.

The Slovenian couple, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, were sponsored for citizenship by Melania Trump, under the US policy of “chain migration”, which allows American citizens to obtain residency for their relatives.

Donald Trump has repeatedly called for chain migration rules to be changed, “even as his in-laws were going through the process” to become US citizens, the New York Times says.

Trump has frequently described the current chain migration laws as a “broken system”, and wants to “limit immigrants like his wife to sponsoring only their spouses and underage children to join them in the US – not their parents, adult children or siblings”, The Guardian says.