Did you hear about the Vietnamese illegal marriage scam? 400 to 600 applications?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20060809/pl_usnw/24_individuals_indicted_in_marriage_fraud_scheme_designed_to_evade_u_s__immigration_laws312_xml

"A federal grand jury indictment unsealed today in Salt Lake City charges 24 individuals in connection with a sophisticated marriage fraud scheme designed to help Vietnamese nationals enter or remain in the United States while evading provisions of U.S. immigration laws.

The indictment alleges the defendants recruited U.S. citizens to travel to Vietnam to enter into fictitious engagements or fraudulent marriages to facilitate the unlawful entry of the Vietnamese nationals into the United States. On occasion, U.S. citizens were recruited to enter into fraudulent marriages with Vietnamese nationals already in the United States."

I mean we know that people do it, but this sounds like they had it down to an industry!

What do you think?

Huh, I guess I am behind the times. I had heard of the baby industry to bring pregnant women to give birth, but not of the marriage industry.

Answer 1

this is not just in vietnam..it happens in every country

some are just desperate to leave their country to come to the USA...

Answer 2

hmmm.........real American answering......."whatever the hell that is".........JESUS

This has been going on since the Korean war and probably before......I have never taken the time to look.......

*oops........did you just see what I typed........"never took the time to look".........that is so "old school". We HAD to look for viable info in the past........today our children have google and wikepedia. HMMMph.........did I just rant........ok....my answer.

Ok .......back to question. Wasn't this prevalent during the wars.....all of them? It just got a little more high tech now.

Either way.....it is an industry. Perhaps the US is being pricked in alot more places than one...........

Answer 3

I read somewhere, sorry I didn't keep the link, that the same thing is going on with Russians and Philippinos ... hell, it's getting worse ... soon there won't be any "real" Americans left ...