Immigration

Report: Shooter used fake address in visa application

By Curt Mills
Published December 5, 2015 4:32pm ET
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Report: Shooter used fake address in visa application
Officials also confirmed Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik had practiced dry-firing, or pulling the trigger of an unloaded gun, in the backyard of another southern California home. (AP Photo via the FBI) | AP

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.

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