WASHINGTON House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled new documents they claimed showed President Joe Biden s son Hunter had lied three times during his testimony to Congress earlier this year.

But the evidence they presented doesnt actually show Biden lying about at least one of those claims.

During a closed-door deposition on Capitol Hill in February, the younger Biden told lawmakers that he did not help foreign nationals obtain visas for traveling to the U.S. as part of his overseas business dealings.

Id never pick up the phone and call anybody for a visa, Biden said, according to the transcript .

Its a key claim, because an American helping a foreign national deal with the U.S. government can face criminal penalties if they fail to register as a foreign agent, under a law called the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Republicans have long said Bidens work for various foreign nationals should have made him register.

One of the emails Republicans released Thursday is a February 2015 message from Devon Archer, one of Hunter Bidens former business partners, to officials with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which employed both Archer and Biden as board members.

Hunter is checking with Miguel Alemn to see if he can provide cover to [Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky] on the visa, the message says.

Citing that email, House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said in a statement Wednesday that Hunter Biden lied during his deposition when he said he never helped individuals obtain U.S. visas.

But the documents Republicans released Wednesday show Bidens associates talking about a Mexican visa, not an American one.

Archer was responding to an email from Burisma executive Vadym Pozharskyi about a trip to Mexico that Zlochevsky had apparently been planning.

Zlochevskys U.S. visa had been revoked the U.S. government considered him corrupt and Pozharskyi was worried that could complicate an attempt to get a Mexican visa for the upcoming Mexico trip. Pozharskyi said a travel agent had warned them that supposedly Mexico and the USA customs authorities share the same database.

With this in mind, I feel that theres a risk that he will fly to Mexico and would be denied entry, and in bad mood would be forced to come back, Pozharskyi wrote.