My wife and I are going through the process of getting her a green card. It's a difficult process mostly because of all the fraud that occurs, people getting married just to get a green card. It makes immigration more skeptical of even legitimate couples, like us.
2006-10-24 04:28:55 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
The just punishment ALREADY exists in the books. The alien would be barred FOR LIFE from ever obtaining any benefit from the US immigration service (no visas, no green card, no citizenship), incarceration, deportation and thousands of dollars in fine. The American citizen can also incur in thousands of dollars in fines and incarceration.
Often the D.A. will cut the American some slack if he/she fully cooperates with the prosecution against the alien. So you do not hear often Americans going to jail for it.
2006-10-24 08:06:14 · answer #1 · answered by TrueSoul 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that they first need to deal with the issue of immigrant coming over the border. But I think that it is going to be hard to enforce a penalty for visa marriage fraud because most of the people that are committing this act as not the good at speaking English and the can just make something up.
2006-10-24 11:40:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Immediate deportation for the immigrant and permanent ban from reentering the country (even for a visit). A hefty fine and community service for the citizen, with close scrutiny as to issuing a marriage license in the future.
2006-10-24 11:43:55 · answer #3 · answered by monkeymom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there's a fair chance of the whole green card business getting changed, in the future, to give out less of em, and to get the whole process to a lot more honest level.
They had some lady that'd been married like 8 times or so...
another story told about this ring of people that were organizing lots of green card marriages, read the news about it, lots of examples out there of pure 100% abuse.
2006-10-24 11:36:29 · answer #4 · answered by gokart121 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The penalties are already pretty steep.
From the CFR:
Civil penalties under this subsection are in addition to, and not
in lieu of, any criminal or other civil penalties that may be
imposed.
(c) Marriage fraud
Any individual who knowingly enters into a marriage for the
purpose of evading any provision of the immigration laws shall be
imprisoned for not more than 5 years, or fined not more than
$250,000, or both.
My guess is that it is not uniformly applied.
2006-10-24 11:53:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is already a penalty. The immigrating spouse can never get a green card. The non-immigrating spouse gets jail.
2006-10-24 11:33:35 · answer #6 · answered by grdnoviz 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Deportation of the foreign national involved, and a large fine with some prison time would be appropriate for the US citizen involved. That would be a good start.
2006-10-24 11:32:25 · answer #7 · answered by damdawg 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think both parties should be together...in the foreign person's home country...
Of course, the gov't. just takes all ur sh** and you go to prison. If anyone ever tried to pull a stunt like that on me, marriage for a green card, I would rat their *** out in a heartbeat!
2006-10-24 11:36:59 · answer #8 · answered by incognitas8 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The citizen who is committing the fraud should be jailed and never be allowed to get married.
2006-10-24 11:37:07 · answer #9 · answered by Niecy 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Deport the immigrant prospective spouse and encarcerate the American prospective spouse.
2006-10-24 11:30:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋