Melania Trump violated her work visa in 1996 by accepting paid modeling gigs before she had legal permission to do so, according to an Associated Press report published late Friday.

The Slovenian-turned-American citizen first arrived in the U.S. on Aug. 27, 1996. She used a B1/B2 visitors visa to enter the country and obtained a H-1B visa on Oct. 18, 1996, which would allow her to work in the U.S.

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