Tag: fake marriage

Sham Marriage-for-Green-Card Scheme Used Loophole in Violence Against Women Act, Prosecutors Say

A group of foreign nationals and American citizens used a provision in the newly-reauthorized Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) as part of a fake profit-making marriage scheme in which American citizens were paid to marry foreigners to establish US residency. According to a multiple-count federal indictment handed down on Thursday against the 11 charged in…


Marriage-for-Green-Card Scheme Used Loophole in Violence Against Women Act, Prosecutors Say

A group of foreign nationals and U.S. citizens used a provision in the newly reauthorized Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) as part of a fake profit-making marriage scheme in which American citizens were paid to marry foreigners to establish U.S. residency, prosecutors say. Foreign nationals paid as much as $30,000 for the sham marriages, which…