February 2012
9 posts
Anonymous asked: I am an American citizen living abroad for many years, met my fiance 4 yrs ago, plan to marry soon and stay abroad for a while. My question is when we get married, if he decides he wants to get his green card and move to the U.S. can he do it without my permission?
Anonymous asked: Can a person getting married to an immigrant write up a prenuptial agreement protecting them from marriage fraud?
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Immigration enforcement program to be shut down →
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is starting to shut down a program that deputized local police officers to act as immigration agents.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have trained local officers around the country to act as their agencies’ immigration officers. Working either in jails or in the field, the officers can check the immigration status of suspects and place...
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Marriage Fraud
My sister in law wedded my brother (arrange marriage). until she got her green card and then passport the it was a happy wedding and she had no complaints whatsoever and everything is perfect. Now there is a child too who is 2 years old. Ever since she got her U.S passport she has changed and the marriage is a failure according to her. 1st she tried to run away to Spain when the baby was 1 year...
Anonymous asked: Hello, I met my husband 4yrs ago, he doesnt have his papers so i was alittle iffy about being with him, but he told me its not even about his papers so i went with it. We were together for 4yrs before he asked me to marry him which was last yr feb.14,2011 so we recently had our anniversary. But now he is changing and wanting his green card, visa or whatever the process is. He is now saying that he...
Anonymous asked: If someone gets married to obtain VISA (green card) with a verbal agreement that the immigrant will pay for everything rent, lawyers. but now that person had an affair with someone else and is now living with them, putting everything under their name and becoming a con artist... how does the law help the person being a victim of a con artist tho the person has not realized yet since they do not...
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can their be consequences?
My boyfriend of over a year was married but they decided to stay married to get the woman he was married to her papers. she has not got them yet because she barely started doing the paperwork . they do have one kid together and were married for over four years, they do not live together, and hardly speak or see each other. The only time they speak or see each other is when he visits the baby. He...
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No Justice Souvenir Marriage turns into a Real...
This is my story, my family’s story. In January of 2010, my uncle was found dead in a closed down restaurant in Renton, WA I know this is not about other types of crimes, so I will do my best to keep it on the marriage fraud portion. I was very close to my uncle and at the time of his death he was a single 50 year old man, so I thought. A woman came forward and said she had married my...
Anonymous asked: A girl (on work permit visa) as well as her family (overseas) kept pressuring me to get married to her, only after meeting her twice, and to sponsor her greencard right away so she can quit her job and move. I filed for her greencard, she withdrew the petition for no reason and then forced me to go for marriage counseling or she would never move in with me (4+ months of marriage). Then we again...
January 2012
6 posts
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Love
Sometimes, an American marries the wrong person…an immigrant looking to use and defraud the American spouse. Sometimes the fraud is sniffed out, and reported, and caught. Other times, they are not caught.
You can report Immigration Marriage Fraud, directly, to Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE). If you are the American spouse being defrauded, our first advice is for you to compile...
Anonymous asked: how does it work, if an illegal marries someone just for papers? does immigration check up on them? talk to their neighbors to see if its true?
Watchplanetzorch:
“We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”
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Hello, I Love You, Won’t You Tell Me Your Name:...
By David Seminara
Backgrounders and Reports
Download the pdf version
Anything worth having is a thing worth cheating for. — W.C. Fields
After September 11th, the existential question of “Why do they [foreigners] hate us?” was hotly debated in the American media without any real conclusion ever being reached. This Backgrounder seeks to answer the opposite question: “Why do they love us?”
Key...
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Marriage Fraud the latest front in the immigration...
Crimes of moral turpitude, including marriage fraud, getting more attention from USCIS & ICE
Caitlin Webber, Congressional Quarterly
Aspiring immigrants are increasingly using sham marriages to circumvent immigration rules, according to a recent report from the Center for Immigration Studies, and U.S. authorities are largely unable to stop them.
Immigrant advocates who put a premium on...
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Marrying for love? You'll have to prove it
For noncitizens, marrying an American is still one of the easier ways to get legal residency. But it’s gotten a lot harder. > By Ali Winston
Some marry for love, others marry for security. Still others marry for the benefits that come with living in America legally. In the years since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, as the nation’s policies toward immigrants and outsiders have...