Veselnitskaya then traveled to Washington to continue her efforts to lobby against the anti-Russian law, attending a movie screening, a congressional hearing on Russia and a dinner that included at least one Republican congressman, The Hill has reported.
It also said Veselnitskaya eventually won a nonimmigrant work visa around the time she met President Trump.
Attorney's office in Manhattan told the court in a hearing in January 2016 that the “extraordinary circumstances” parole request needed to be approved by Attorney General Loretta Lynch. “In October the government bypassed 
. the normal visa process and gave a type of extraordinary 
.