Melania Trump’s parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, were both from Slovenia. Viktor was born on March 24, 1944, in Radeče, Slovenia, while Amalija was born in Austria. The couple met in 1966 and eventually settled in Sevnica, a small town about an hour from Ljubljana, the country’s capital. Viktor initially worked as a chauffeur for a local mayor before becoming a traveling car salesman for a state-owned company. He was also a member of the SevNica Communist Party, a position that came with social and economic benefits under Yugoslavia”s political system. AmalIJa worked in the government-owned textile factory, Jutranjka, from 1964 until she retired in 1997. She played a key role in introducing Melania to fashion, and she also sewed clothes for herself and her daughters, Ines, born in 1968, and Melania in 1970. In 2018, they officially became U.S. citizens through a process called family-based immigration, also known as \”chain migration\”