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FBI Had Serious Concerns About Ivana Trump’s Immigration Records, ‘Fraught With Inconsistencies Regarding Residence, Schooling and Employments’

A second batch of newly released top-secret FBI files devoted to Ivana Trump shows that the bureau has been trying to solve the mysteries surrounding her whereabouts and citizenship before becoming a U.S. citizen, The Daily Beast reports.

The initial tranche of documents on Ivana Trump was released earlier in the year after Bloomberg filed a Freedom of Information Act request in the wake of the Trump family matriarch’s death. The documents revealed the agency opened a “preliminary inquiry” on Trump’s immigration status in March 1989 because of her ties to Czechoslovakia, which was a Communist country at the time.

The investigation wound up being closed in 1991 because “no outstanding leads” remained. However, the newly released memos show alleged discrepancies in her immigration file that puzzled the FBI during this time.

One document dated Oct. 5, 1989, was especially problematic. It stated Trump’s Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) was found to be “fraught with inconsistencies regarding dates of residence, schooling, and employments,” an analysis found.

The document cited a letter within Ivana’s INS file from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. Here, Trump said she attended Charles University in Prague until 1973, then moved to Quebec upon completion of her studies and stayed there until 1977.

But according to the memo, it looks like some crucial information was missing.

“There is no mention of any time spent in Austria,” the document states. “Nowhere else in her INS file is there any indication of ever having attended Charles University.”

Later, however, it was confirmed that Ivana Trump received her master’s degree in physical education at the university in 1972.

Regarding her time in Austria, additional reports state she was briefly married to Austrian ski instructor Alfred Winklmayr. Describing this as a “Cold War marriage, her lawyer noted the union existed solely for the purpose of getting Trump an Austrian passport to leave Czechoslovakia and jet to Canada.

The marriage served as the main cause of the FBI’s befuddlement.

“In addition to the inconsistencies of her whereabouts, there exists the continual changing of her citizenship,” the memo stated. “While still married to [redacted] and presumably still living in Austria, she became a citizen of Austria in 1972. One year year after her marriage to Trump, she became a Canadian citizen. And five months after that she became a permanent resident of the U.S.”

Yeah, that is quite convoluted. No wonder folks at the FBI were confused. The young woman with a master’s degree in physical education took laborious steps to obtain citizenship here. Her marriage to Trump was fraught with problems but it looks like Ivana did fairly well and lived the rest of her life without the scandals that plague her ex-husband and their kids.

There’s something to be said for that.

You can look at the documents HERE.

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