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The FBI continues
to investigate the motives behind the massacre Wednesday of 14
people by Tashfeen Malik, 29, a Pakistan native who came to the
United States from Saudi Arabia on a K-1 visa to marry her
American-born husband Syed Rizwan Farook, 28.
The visa permits foreign citizens to enter the country to marry
Americans. In 2014, almost 36,000 K-1 visas were issued,
according to State Department statistics.
Malik is believed to have pledged allegiance to the Islamic
State militant group on Facebook around the time of the attack.
Obama called the shooting "an act of terrorism" and the shooting
has renewed American fears about attacks from extremists.
In a televised address, Obama said he had ordered a review of
the "visa waiver program" used by Malik to enter the United
States. But a White House official confirmed Obama misspoke,
meaning to say "visa program."
The U.S. government separately is making a series of changes to
its visa waiver program to screen travelers more closely from 38
countries who can enter the United States without visas. The
measures were prompted by Nov. 13 attacks in Paris by Islamic
State militants.
(Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason; Editing by Peter
Cooney and Mary Milliken)
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