A report surfaced early Saturday that the address San Bernardino suspect Tashfeen Malik reported on her 2014 fiancee visa application to the United States from Pakistan does not exist.
The town exists, but not the specific address she listed. Malik’s application was successful, allowing her to emigrate to the U.S. to be with her husband Syed Rizwan Farook, and allegedly carry out the murder of 14 people Wednesday with him in California.
ABC News reports, “Malik was born in Pakistan, and moved to Saudi Arabia at age 4. She returned to Pakistan to attend college… Malik provided an address in this Pakistani town when she applied for an American visa in 2014, an address ABC News discovered today does not exist.”
“U.S. officials are questioning whether she was the one who radicalized her husband,” the report continued.
Before this development emerged, the State Department Friday forthrightly defended the fiancee visa application process as sound.
The Washington Examiner contacted State, which declined to directly answer the question on this report’s validity.
“We are actively reviewing all of the information provided in the visa application and sharing it with our interagency partners as it relates to the investigation,” the State Department said.
Pete Kasperowicz contributed to this article.
