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“But dropping out of school does not allow for work authorization. So there is a quite a gap there.”

The J-1 allows visa holders to work in pursuit of academic training, but only during one’s studies or following the completion of studies, Cohen pointed out. This also requires being in good academic standing & receiving written approval in advance from the school for the duration & type of academic training.

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#ElonMusk did not attend classes at Stanford when he arrived in Palo Alto in fall 1995, working to build his company instead.

“There are work options during studies, while engaged in a full course of study, & also after the completion of studies,” said Adam Cohen, author of “The Academic #Immigration Handbook” & an attorney who specializes in employment visas.

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“I had no money for a lab & no legal right to stay in the country, so that seemed like a good way to solve both issues,” #ElonMusk wrote.

Acc/to the federal #immigration regulations that were in effect in the mid-1990s, foreign students with a J-1 visa were allowed to work only in limited circumstances if they were in “good academic standing” & pursuing a “full course of study.”

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“We don’t want our founder being #deported,” said #DerekProudian, the Zip2 board member, who later became chief executive.

The terms of an investment deal in the company gave #ElonMusk, his brother & an associate 45 days to obtain #legal work status. In a 2005 email obtained by WaPo, #Musk wrote that he had applied to a Stanford grad program, which he did not end up attending, so he could stay in the country. [#fraud]
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#Melania Trump used a #legal pathway that #Trump & his top advisers repeatedly disparaged as “chain migration,” the right of US #citizens to bring their parents to the #UnitedStates.
#Federal #law since 1965 has said #US citizens may apply to bring minor children & parents to join them in the United States w/o having to wait a long time for a #visa. Citizens may sponsor siblings & adult children, but they typically wait longer for #visas.

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#Melania Trump sponsored her mother to #immigrate to the #UnitedStates through a family-based process that #Trump aggressively sought to end, acc/to federal #immigration records released Mon.

The records detail for the first time the full path that the fmr first lady’s mother, Amalija Knavs, followed from Slovenia to the #US — & how the Trump admin’s policies would have made that far more difficult for others.

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washingtonpost.com/immigration

The Washington Post · Records confirm Trump’s mother-in-law came to U.S. through process he deridedBy Maria Sacchetti