May 2012
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Anonymous asked: Where do you go if you are a victim?
April 2012
1 post
We'll be responding to the next round letters this...
March 2012
10 posts
Anonymous asked: what can I do if I feel my wife of six years has set me up for marriage just to get her papers so she can stay here for her daughter witch is a US citizen. I have been told by her on a couple of ocasions during a disagreements that she only wanted her papers ...HELP I need some kind of direction to take
Anonymous asked: ive been married for 6 years my husband has been in the states for one year he left me after 3 months i havent seen him and he hasnt talk to me he was staying with the female sponcer that he fail to mention he had 2 children by in jamaica after he left she stop answer her phone what can i do
Anonymous asked: My husband is clearly engaging in marrigae fraud, id theft and fraud. He said after our initial interview he was not going to live with me but stay with his Nigerian wife who is here illegal with four children. I sent a letter to USCIS and nothing was done. He then sent in a fraudent application a year later claiming to be living at my home and false affidavits and one from a woman I never met...
remarriage of my husband in america
My husband ,left india in year 2002,for further studies,after that he did’nt came back after that,niether he is providing any financial support,to me.I am in deep trouble,I have two kids from him.He communicate via emails,only and doesn’t provide any address in US.I have doubt that he has got married again in US ,to get green card.Please suggest me what action I can take against him,and how I can...
Anonymous asked: I married my friend whom i fell in love with , but it did not work out. During the process I filed a petition on his behalf and he received a temporary greencard. However when we went for the second inteview we were separated and I was told by the immigration officer that they received a letter that the marriage was fraudulent. During the marriage my spouse and I separated and he was living in...
Anonymous asked: my husband is on a conditional green card and i suspect he is using me and our marriage solely for permanent resident status here in the US. He has repeatedly abused me physically and refuses to split financial obligations fairly... I want a divorce but I don't know how to go about filing for divorce and also deal with USCIS about removing support from his papers. The last time he physically...
Anonymous asked: is the 18663472423 just for giving a tip for deporting someone?
Las Vegas Marriage Fraud
How and where do I report marriage fraud in Las Vegas, Nevada? I reported to ICE and DHS but nothing happened. Jay ———- married his cousin Maria ————- who works at MGM Grand in 2009 so that he would become citizen in exchange of money. The woman has another husband and they have a kid. How would the fraud and immorality be stopped?
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An Iranian-Canadian lady went to Iran and arranged a fake marriage of her daughter that was a Canadian citizen with her first cousin (Her sister’s son). She applied for him to come to Canada having a Canadian wife. He was approved and came to Canada. She got paid $15,000. He came to Canada as an immigrant and they went their ways without ever being married. Practically this was an arranged...
Anonymous asked: My Brother in Law's wife just came from another country about a month ago and just left the house with out my bil's knowledge and went to live with an uncle. What can be done about this? We did not see this coming and did not think this could happen.
February 2012
13 posts
Anonymous asked: right now getting divorce, but I'm victom marriage fraud and my wife lie to say abuse and I never hurt her need help anulment and deportation answers
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Permission
We get lots of emails on “permission”, regarding what a petitioner can do for their immigrant spouse. However, a lot of the emails and questions seem to be from those inquiring about how they can prevent their spouse from succeeding in their quest for citizenship if the marriage ends. “How far can they go without my permissions?”
This is a disturbing but frequent...
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
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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...