Discovered fraud 2 weeks into K1 marriage- annulment, vawa? (split)

[davelowell123 1]

Thank you for the information. I am a victim too but am frustrated because the process takes so long. Plus the attorney fees are high so I have been self representing (pro se) over the past 2 years. 15 days after the wedding that took place in Chicago I discovered a series of conversations that I had translated into English which proved she was already in a 7 year relationship with a man living in the Philippines. In another conversation she states she will divorce me after she receives her papers. What really struck me about the conversations was how many knew the marriage was not legitimate.....family both in Philippines and Chicago, friends, neighbors. Some coaching her along the way. I handed all evidence including the conversations fully translated to English. One story is unbelievable as my spouse is talking with a scammer friend who makes money from her 20 plus boyfriends throughout Europe and USA. Once I found out I was being defrauded I reported immediately to immigration and kept submitting information through the reportfraudtips e-mail service. I filed for an annulment in Dec 2014. I had a difficult time serving her because she kept moving to different relatives in the Chicago area....I live in CT. I did a google search ( Filipino marriage fraud Chicago) and found a hand full of articles. I recognized some of the names related to my spouse .......I started researching the people associated with her and saw some who were arrested for identity theft and marriage fraud. Caregiver fraud is part of this network too. The women associated with my spouse were all married to an American and now divorce. While the annulment was pending in CT a Chicago attorney called me in June 2015 and offered me a proposal which I considered a bribe. I asked for a written copy. They wanted me to receive a $2,000 cash settlement to drop the fraud charge and change the annulment to a divorce. I rejected as it's against the law to accept cash in exchange for an immigration benefit. They in turn filed a petition for divorce stating no other actions were pending in any other county or state which was false. I had to retain an attorney to dismiss the petition costing me over $3,000. Annulment was granted in Sept 2015 but vacated in May 2016 due to a clerical error. New hearing in CT June 24 2016. Plus the Chicago attorney filed a civil suit against me in Dec 2015 with false allegations. I was never told but now I feel they filed a VAWA which is another fraud because she never lived with me after the wedding. At this time I'm trying to get the annulment to stick and dismiss the civil case from Chicago plus report the VAWA application as a fraud.

[Boiler 45,581]

Hopefully a mod will start a new thread for you. Certainly not the first time this situation has come up, some countries seem to be more favoured with this sort of thing than others.

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

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Op, have you contacted ICE yet, and/ or the supervising officer of that other fraud case your wife seems to have associated with the accused?

[Unlockable 7,314]

Wow. Tough break. Seems like she has her feet on US soil so half the battle is over. This sounds like a long plan in the making. Did you also get the name of her bf? In case he could be doing the same to an unsuspecting USC woman?

I hope you can get the annulment and the fraudulent VAWA case dismissed.

Best of luck.

[FxL 39]

How unfortunate this comes from the country I love. Yet, false marriage is very common in the Philippines. Many people felt no shame to ask if I can marry them for a green card or get to know my friends from US to marry. I know someone who's asking me for help on the immigration process but I decline because I know she's in it for the green card and the guy is in it for the money. Honest people are suffering in the waiting process to be with their loved ones because the horrible dishonest people are in the way.

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

What surprises me is not only the high fraud in the PI but the ease to get through the embassy. The age gap of the scammers marrying men twice their age and no one blinks an eye and you got hell to pay for high fraud Ghana for example where the age gap is older women but very hard to get through.

[Bluey 2]

Oh my... what a terrible experience.

You said you guys married two years ago, so is it the time for her to file ROC?
If so, can you get an infopass to let the officer know about the situation that they can decline her ROC?

[Mamabrown3 17]

My heart breaks for you... When you meet someone and believe their intentions are as true as yours and you get blindsided. I understand everyone always says be careful, but you always think that this isn't your situation... Damn.. I'm truly sorry for your hurt.

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[IcezMan_IcezLady 582]

I think the Manila Embassy just approves anything.It is like a visa mill.

I hope you fight this to the end...Good luck!

[LionessDeon 2,060]

What surprises me is not only the high fraud in the PI but the ease to get through the embassy. The age gap of the scammers marrying men twice their age and no one blinks an eye and you got hell to pay for high fraud Ghana for example where the age gap is older women but very hard to get through.

I agree. I don't get it either. But then again, nothing in this process makes any sense to me.

[blest.but.strest 50]

Oh my... what a terrible experience.

You said you guys married two years ago, so is it the time for her to file ROC?

If so, can you get an infopass to let the officer know about the situation that they can decline her ROC?

This isn't a ROC case, she doesn't have a green card. 2 weeks after the marriage he found out his wife fraudulent intentions.

[FxL 39]

I agree PI seems lenient when it comes to all these Filipinos getting away with fraud. But when I met a man from Ghana who came here by fraud he said it's normal from people in his country to come here through fraud marriage. People in Ghana made it as a business to get paid by people helping them come here through staged marriages. I think it's everywhere and USCIS, NVC, and any embassy in general need to fix this.

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[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

I agree PI seems lenient when it comes to all these Filipinos getting away with fraud. But when I met a man from Ghana who came here by fraud he said it's normal from people in his country to come here through fraud marriage. People in Ghana made it as a business to get paid by people helping them come here through staged marriages. I think it's everywhere and USCIS, NVC, and any embassy in general need to fix this.

The exact same thing is said of the PI, women have little cliques among themselves with intent to use a USC (especially a USC

with one foot in the grave) and then dumping them when established here. I have read posts where the women sit around

laughing at the vulnerability of their fiances and husbands and hatching a plan for their disappearance like it's a coffee klatsch.

Not without taking a lot of money with them.

I see Ghana knee jerking it trying to 'fix it' as you call it by denying many genuine couples, I don't see PI petitioners/beneficiaries

coming here complaining of being denied or having 3-4 interviews and long AP and that embassy needs to step it up also.

My point is Ghana is trying to stop it to the point of over compensating and the PI is still easy peasy to fly through while both

have a high fraud rate even though we all say here PI is low fraud and easy to get through, it is higher than what people claim

judging from the feedback I have come in contact with.

Though Ghana is high fraud, it's not normal for all people from Ghana to come here through marriage fraud, some do and some do not, because he did it doesn't

mean all do. There are people on this site who have been married happily for many years from Ghana

and those who split up just like other countries.

What I don't get is why fraud in one country is being pretty much overlooked and there is hell to pay for others.

[Jawaree 718]

Very easy Embassy I'd often wonder if its because PI is a strong US

allay, and to be honest some of the best nurses in the US are from PI

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

Very easy Embassy I'd often wonder if its because PI is a strong US

allay, and to be honest some of the best nurses in the US are from PI

Haven't had any PI nurses so I can't comment on their expertise but I agree on the strong US ally

perspective.

Unless of course some CO's see a potential cute young PI scammer as less of a threat than a potential

Ghanaian black male scammer. Who knows !