Natalia Veselnitskaya is at the center of the political firestorm around the meeting in 2016 that Democrats are claiming as proof of collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign.
The Russian lawyer was characterized as an agent of the Russian government’s effort to defeat then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, though she denies the connection.
Now questions are arising about how she was in the country in the first place to attend that meeting.
According to a report from the Daily Beast, Veselnitskaya didn’t appear to have visa authorization to enter the country when she did in 2016.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York said that Veselnitskaya had been granted an “immigration parole” in 2015, but it expired in early 2016 and wasn’t renewed.