Organizer of green card-marriage scam involving hundreds gets 2 1/2 years in prison

[mawilson 2,133]

oh oh oh...I think I know this one mawilson!!!!! is it that fraudulent petitions create more petitions that they have to approve or deny?

Ooh yeah, those damn fraudsters - overloading the system! LOL

[Amby 490]

god I'm so smart!

[Jasman0717 9]

Thats it, two and a half years She will be out and scamming again in six months

[sj5 4]

2.5 years in prison for faking USCIS isn't bad.. it should be like 10 to 15 years in jail.

Thats it, two and a half years She will be out and scamming again in six months

Edited February 22, 2008 by SJ

[rebeccajo 14]

Mark, get real.

It is this exact thing that has caused the looooooooooong process in marriage based visas. More so than the fraudster trying to convince some poor USC that he/she is madly in love with them.

Really? It's not because USCIS don't have enough employees to process petitions in a timely fashion?

Really.

I don't think so.

Then you've just been spending too much time in Off-Topic and not enough time on the other forums!

Seriously Becca, how do fraudulent petitions affect the process for everyone else?

Hasn't the process always been the same for everyone, fraud or no fraud?

Well no Mark, really it hasn't. Laws change all the time and more layers are always added to the process. IMBRA and John Walsh Act just since I have been active here.

Do you seriously think that if the government wasn't concerned about people entering the country illegally through marriage that they wouldn't just rubber-stamp these petitions the same way they virtually do for highly skilled immigrants, who slide through in just a few weeks?

[Cassie 8]

Do you seriously think that if the government wasn't concerned about people entering the country illegally through marriage that they wouldn't just rubber-stamp these petitions the same way they virtually do for highly skilled immigrants, who slide through in just a few weeks?

:yes: