US First Lady Melania Trump's Slovenian parents have become American citizens after taking the citizenship oath during a ceremony here using a programme her husband Donald Trump has repeatedly denounced and termed as "chain migration".
Melania's parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, were sworn in as US citizens at a federal immigration court in New York City yesterday.
The pair had been living in the US on green cards sponsored by their daughter Melania.
"Once they had the green card, they then applied for citizenship when they were eligible," the couple's lawyer Michael Wildes was quoted as saying by 'The New York Times'
"It's a dirty a dirtier word," he said, adding that "it stands for a bedrock of our immigration process when it comes to family reunification."
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