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Photo shows Tashfeen Malik and Syed Farook entering the U.S

This undated combination of photos provided by the FBI, left, and the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Tashfeen Malik, left, and Syed Farook. The husband and wife died in a fierce gunbattle with authorities several hours after their commando-style assault on a gathering of Farook's colleagues from San Bernardino, Calif., County's health department Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. (FBI, left, and California Department of Motor Vehicles via AP)
This undated combination of photos provided by the FBI, left, and the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Tashfeen Malik, left, and Syed Farook. The husband and wife died in a fierce gunbattle with authorities several hours after their commando-style assault on a gathering of Farook’s colleagues from San Bernardino, Calif., County’s health department Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015. (FBI, left, and California Department of Motor Vehicles via AP)

By Megan Specia From Mashable

As investigators continue to unravel the story of Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a photo has surfaced of the San Bernardino shooters setting foot onto U.S. soil for the first time together.

The photo, obtained by ABC News, shows their first moments in the United States on July 27, 2014, when they entered Chicago’s O’Hare Airport and passed through customs.

Farook, a U.S. citizen, was returning to the country from Saudi Arabia with his new fiancee.

Malik stares into the camera with a black veil pulled back from her face, while Farook can be seen standing behind her and looking on. The photo is the most recent image that has been released of the couple.

On Friday, investigators said they were investigating the attack as an act of terrorism, which President Obama reiterated in a primetime address to the nation on Sunday night.

Malik pledged allegiance to the Islamic State during the attack. In now-deleted Facebook posts, she expressed her admiration for ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi using an alias, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to Mashable.

Malik and Farook met online in 2013, and they got engaged in Saudi Arabia before traveling back to the U.S. together in July 2014.

Malik came to the country on a K-1 fiancée visa, and they married in California in August 2014. She came to the country on a Pakistani passport, but had spent time in Saudi Arabia prior to entering the U.S. Family members describe her as conservative and “radicalized.”

Saudi Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki told the AP that authorities there have received no indication Malik was radicalized in Saudi Arabia.

Al-Turki said Saudi records show she was not a resident of Saudi Arabia and had been to the kingdom only twice. On both trips, she came to visit her family, once in 2008 for several weeks and the second time in 2013 for four months.

The Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed Sunday that Malik’s father — Gulzar Ahmed Malik — has been a resident in the kingdom since the early 1980s. However, Saudi laws do not permit authorities to release further details about his whereabouts or his profession since he is not a suspect.

Farook was a U.S. citizen, born in Chicago to Pakistani parents and raised in Southern California.

Family members maintain that there was no indication that the couple was planning an attack ahead of the brutal assault, despite the fact that they had amassed a cache of ammunition and a dozen of pipe bombs in their suburban home.

Additional information from the Associated Press.

IMAGE: San-bernardino-suspects This undated combination of photos provided by the FBI, left, and the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows Tashfeen Malik, left, and Syed Farook.IMAGE: FBI, LEFT, AND CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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