More on Fake Marriage for Citizenship

Some gullible people (recent immigrants seem to be disproportionately victimized) are apparently duped into believing that job training and certification programs (often of short duration and inexpensive) qualify them to do things they cannot. Children born in the USA automatically become citizens and have all rights to live here and back from abroad with no problem.

How is it for both the visiting relatives and the immigrant families when extended family come to visit? Then you have to go to immigration and lie to their face a couple times, all the while holding your own life together, and possibly missing out on someone who really loves you. Some on tourist visas try marriage procedures and it may be not easy since the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services) officer can accuse you of visa fraud.

We all ready have an influx of illegal immigrants, and now some want to make it okay in popular culture to just marry an American citizen to stay here? As others have said, the laws are continuously updating as it is to keep these kind of scams from be perpetrated, and yet they want to make it the norm? So long as you get married for traditional reasons such as love and affection, it’s perfectly OK that your “green card marriage” results in an immigration benefit to you.

This is usually a cross-cultural marriage, although there are times in which that citizen may be an immigrant from the same culture, but just has become a citizen of the host country. Marrying a citizen of the host country may help the person then become a citizen of that land and stay there permanently. People who think their votes doesn't count, when it comes to the illegal immigration politics is wrong! When timid Governors, Mayors or boards of city supervisors should be carefully watched for how they vote. They forged their husbands' names on immigration documents and vouched for each other to get citizenship and jobs. Later, they divorced the men.

While fiancee and immigrant applicants obviously do not have to prove that they will return to their home country, several issues are emphasized by the consular officer in review of these types of applications. For example, the financial ability of the American sponsor is scrutinized, as well as the results of the medical examinations and police clearances. Some were primarily from Central America and South America, though at least one of the immigrants was from Morocco. The four companies that allegedly arranged the marriages were incorporated as immigration assistance services. The couples, including the Americans, face charges of knowingly entering into a fraudulent marriage to evade immigration laws, also carrying a maximum five-year penalty.