Tashfeen Malik Visa

State Department visa officers conducted all required security checks on Tashfeen Malik, one of two shooters in the San Bernardino massacre early this month, but found no "derogatory" information before granting her a visa to enter the United States in 2013, a person familiar with the documentation said.

Islamic militant groups ignored contact attempts from Pakistan-born Tashfeen Malik in the months before she and her husband killed 14 people at a California holiday party, probably because they feared getting caught in a U.S. law enforcement sting, U.S. government sources said on Thursday.

Visas used by foreigners to travel to the United States are getting new scrutiny in the wake of shooting massacres in California and France.

In a rare slip, US President Barack Obama today wrongly said that Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman accused of carrying out the grisly California massacre along with her husband, arrived in the US under a visa waiver programme, forcing the White House to issue a correction.

President Barack Obama has asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the State Department to review the K-1 fiance visa program that was used by a couple responsible for a mass shooting in California, a White House official said on Sunday.

One of the key suspects of the California mass shooting received her US fiance visa in Islamabad after which she travelled to the US and got married, the US State Department has said.

State Department visa officers conducted all required security checks on Tashfeen Malik, one of two shooters in the San Bernardino massacre early this month, but found no "derogatory" information before granting her a visa to enter the United States in 2013, a person familiar with the documentation said.

Islamic militant groups ignored contact attempts from Pakistan-born Tashfeen Malik in the months before she and her husband killed 14 people at a California holiday party, probably because they feared getting caught in a U.S. law enforcement sting, U.S. government sources said on Thursday.

Visas used by foreigners to travel to the United States are getting new scrutiny in the wake of shooting massacres in California and France.

In a rare slip, US President Barack Obama today wrongly said that Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani woman accused of carrying out the grisly California massacre along with her husband, arrived in the US under a visa waiver programme, forcing the White House to issue a correction.

President Barack Obama has asked the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the State Department to review the K-1 fiance visa program that was used by a couple responsible for a mass shooting in California, a White House official said on Sunday.

One of the key suspects of the California mass shooting received her US fiance visa in Islamabad after which she travelled to the US and got married, the US State Department has said.