According to Richard Johnson with the New York Post, Melania Trump travels to NYC once or twice a month to go clothes shopping with her sister Ines Knauss.

“Instead of having clothes delivered to the White House, Melania has designers and stylists send them to Trump Tower,” an insider told the Post. “Once or twice a month, the first lady quietly comes to New York, and has her sister come over to give advice as she tries on outfits.”

Ines lives just a few blocks from Trump Tower in an apartment in a Trump building where Melania lived before she married Trump/

“She’s extremely private and publicity shy,” said one source. “But she and Melania are very close.”

Ines once studied fashion, and moved to Milan when Melania started modeling there. Ines also followed Melania to New York, when Melania signed with Paolo Zampolli, who introduced her to Trump.

Zampolli said, “The whole family has great style, starting with the mother.”

Melania’s spokeswoman said: “Mrs. Trump and her sister are very close, but she is not who helps her with styling her wardrobe. At the end of the day, it is Mrs. Trump who decides what she will wear.”

Ines Knauss is a few years older than Melania.

According to the Express, Ines Knauss obtained her citizenship last year, around the same time Melania’s parents obtained their citizenship.

The lawyer for Melania’s parents acknowledged that the Knausses had obtained citizenship via the very pathway that their son-in-law, the president, has so publicly denounced. Wildes called chain migration a “dirtier” way of characterizing “a bedrock of our immigration process when it comes to family reunification,” according to The New York Times.

In chain migration, parents of U.S. citizens are given priority. But siblings are much lower down on the priory scale. Yet Ines received citizenship, despite this fact, and despite the fact that she doesn’t hold a job. The Trump administration has been against immigration when the immigrant could potentially become a “public charge.”

Of course there are many questions about how Melania received her visa when she originally moved to the US, as the first lady obtained the “Einstein” visa for “extraordinary ability.”

It’s reported that Ines Knauss is an “artist”. Melania Trump has previously shared her sister’s pencil-based sketches on Twitter. But searching for Ines’s art on Google brings up nothing, which leads me to believe she is not an actual working artist. So how did she get U.S. citizenship?

art of gossip #courtesy of #artist ines knauss pic.twitter.com/SnsQIJ1bWC

— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) August 6, 2014