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2 more sentenced for marriage fraud A federal judge sentenced a Cozad woman to probation for a sham marriage so the man, a Mexican citizen, could stay in the U.S. legally....read more 11 Indicted In Marriage-Fraud Scheme Eleven people were arrested and charged with participating in a Central Ohio based scheme to arrange sham marriages in order to evade U.S. immigration laws....read more County Employees Involved in Sham Marriage Scam, Feds Say Five current or former county workers are among 10 people with Chicago connections indicted in an alleged scam to arrange sham marriages....read more USCIS investigates Gambian man for marriage fraud The United States Citizen and Immigration Service began an investigation on Saikou Kanteh, 26, when it became clear that Kanteh's intentions were less than honorable....read more 6 Posed as Abuse Victims to Get Rent Subsidies, Officials Say This story isn't about immigration fraud, but it goes to show what lengths some people will go in order to receive a benefit. These women lied about domestic violence to get cheap rent. Do you think that there are immigrants that would lie about domestic violence to get a green card?...read more Owner of Thai Ginger admits to immigration fraud - paying people to 'marry' her relatives Varee Bradford, 44, owner of the Thai Ginger chain of restaurants, pleaded guilty Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Seattle to Conspiracy to Commit Immigration Fraud, and three counts of Fraud Relating to Immigration Documents....read more Marriage scam busted A Russian woman who married a Jackson resident in 2007 will be deported after serving about two months in a federal prison for evading immigration laws through marriage fraud...read more Soldier, ex-soldier plead guilty to marriage fraud A Fort Bragg soldier and a former soldier pleaded guilty Tuesday to entering into fake marriages with Russian women to move off post and legitimize the women's immigration status....read more Former husband, wife plead guilty to marriage fraud A Columbus-area immigration lawyer and her ex-husband pleaded guilty today to marriage fraud....read more Sham marriages: Federal Way woman sentenced for immigration fraud A Federal Way woman was sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison Monday after she was convicted of setting up sham marriages between U.S. citizens and Cambodian nationals....read more California Sham Marriage Broker Sentenced to Federal Prison >Kwan Tsoi, also known as Joyce Cai, was sentenced in federal court today to 19 months in prison, and ordered to forfeit $250,000 in proceeds, for arranging fake marriages so her foreign national clients could obtain immigration benefits they did not qualify for....read more Ex-Virginia Beach police officer indicted in marriage fraud investigation A grand jury has indicted former Virginia Beach police officer Andrey Savelyev on charges including conspiracy and making multiple false statements with regard to immigration fraud....read more 50 charged with marriage fraud Immigration agents in Cincinnati charged 50 people Tuesday with participating in one of the largest marriage fraud rings in the country....read more US Legislators Examine Violence Against Women Act One out of every three people in the United States has been a victim of domestic violence, according to Department of Justice Statistics. In 1994, the United States passed the Violence Against Women Act to protect women against domestic abuse. Since then, more women are reporting these crimes....read more What Has Happened To VAWA? Interesting article by an immigration attorney who has seen clients denied their self-petitions. He states "Congress should amend the law to make enforceable the right of battered wives to leave their abusive husbands, by providing for judicial review, to compel bureaucrats to follow the law instead of their prurient curiosities." We feel citizens should have the right to judicial review when immigrant spouses make false claims of abuse! ...read more ICE arrests Ohio immigration attorney on marriage fraud charges U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents today arrested a Columbus-area immigration attorney and an associate on charges of marriage fraud....read more OUR NATIONAL SECURITY HAS BEEN COMPROMISED I receive news reports from a number of people including a highly placed official on Capitol Hill whom I have had the privilege of working with for more than a decade, as well as Bruce DeCell, a good friend and a founding member of 9/11 Families for a Secure America, an organization created by the families of the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001....read more 8 Plead Guilty To Marriage Fraud Scam Eight Greater Cincinnati area residents have pleaded guilty Friday to a large scale scheme that arranged fake marriages to help aliens illegally stay in the United States....read more Immigration 'Widow Penalty' and Immigration Fraud My concern was that so many politicians are obviously seeking all sorts of ways of bending the immigration laws to make it impossible to enforce the immigration statutes from within the United States. I fear that in order to spare the several hundred widowed conditional immigrants the possibility of being removed from the United States that the Congress would enact legislation that would remove the two year conditional immigrant status for all aliens who acquire their lawful immigrant status through marriage to a United States citizen or lawful immigrant....read more Restaurant owner pleads not guilty to charges of setting up "sham marriages" The owner of the Thai Ginger, a local chain of popular Thai restaurants, pleaded not guilty this afternoon to federal charges alleging she paid her employees thousands of dollars to enter into "sham marriages" with her relatives from Thailand so they could stay in the U.S....read more Will Congress End the Immigration 'Widow Penalty'? It was bad enough that Natalia Goukassian, then 21, had to spend her honeymoon in June 2006 in West Palm Beach, Fla., helping her husband Tigran find alternative treatments for connective tissue sarcoma, an aggressive cancer, or that six months later, the Air Force-enlisted man, 21, succumbed to the disease. But as it turned out, her painful ordeal had only just begun. While the Veteran Affairs Department deemed the Russian immigrant (not yet a legal resident) eligible for surviving-spouse benefits, immigration officials at Homeland Security took a very different view. ...read more Feds: Local businesswoman Maura Carney set up sham marriage to keep German citizen in U.S. Local businesswoman Maura Carney is accused of arranging a sham marriage between a city cop and a German woman so the 28-year-old woman could stay in the country....read more Janet Napolitano Announces She Won't Enforce Anti-Marriage Fraud Measure It's bad enough that for the eight years of the Bush administration, many Bush U.S. Attorneys let ICE agents know they wouldn't prosecute marriage fraud cases....read more Why Does Reid Want to Ram Immigration Amnesty Through Senate? It is absolutely clear that Reid is determined to ram Comprehensive Immigration Reform through the legislative process notwithstanding the great resistance that this proposal met two years ago from the citizens of our country. As I will also make clear in this commentary, Comprehensive Immigration Reform would create incredible risks for our nation....read more Former Agent Calls Sham Marriages 'Epidemic' A former immigration enforcement agent says he is seeing an "epidemic" of fraudulent marriages where foreign women marry American men, then claim domestic violence to escape the marriage and legally remain in the U.S....read more. Watch video. Ex-lawyer sentenced for role in marriage scam A former lawyer and Filipino-American community leader was sentenced Monday to three years of probation with six months of home detention after admitting that he helped arrange a phony marriage between clients...read more Grooms: Woman Coached Foreign Wives To Lie One Valley woman who runs a domestic violence shelter for abused foreign women allegedly helped some foreign brides take advantage of a loophole in U.S. immigration law, according to three area men...read more Grooms: Brides Manipulated System Valley Men Say Foreign Brides Tried To Exploit Domestic Violence Loophole In Immigration Law...read more Ex-FBI trainee nets 1-year term in marriage fraud case A former FBI trainee and Navy sailor was sentenced Tuesday to one year in federal prison after admitting she arranged a phony marriage to get quick citizenship...read more Court Allows Fraud Conviction for Lying to Obtain Green Card Possession of authentic immigration documents obtained by means of false statements is a criminal act, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals clarified yesterday....read more Horry County man pleads guilty to marriage fraud A 26-year-old Myrtle Beach man pled guilty in federal court Monday to conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. U.S. Attorney W. Walter Wilkins says Timothy Staie will be sentenced at a later date....read more 10 indicted in multi-state marriage fraud scheme Ten individuals involved in a multi-state marriage fraud conspiracy were indicted today in federal court following an intensive and far-reaching investigation by agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)....read more TACOMA MAN WHO POSED AS FIANCE IN VISA FRAUD SENTENCED TO PRISON TIME RYAN NICKLAUS WILLIAMS, 28, of Puyallup, Washington was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 37 days in jail with credit for time served, 100 hours of community service, four months of electronic home monitoring, and three years of supervised release for the crime of Conspiracy to Commit Visa Fraud. ...read more |
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