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From: reza@ihuxb.UUCP (H. Reza Taheri)
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Subject: Re: Help a Polish "immigrant"
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Date: Wed, 9-May-84 15:30:22 EDT
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Mike Meyer says:

> There are some legal problems with your proposal to marry an american
> citizen and then quickly obtain a divorce.  I'm not a lawyer, but my
> understanding is that is the marriage does no last for at least two
> years the Immigration and Naturalization Service can withdraw the
> permanent residence status on the grounds that the marriage was a sham

   Well that's not quite true.  Up until several years ago the INS
would very easily grant Permanent Residence to spouses of U.S.
citizens.  Then the rash of temporary marriages started.  To fight
that, the INS would snoop around for up to a year to make sure that
there really was a marriage.  They would make unannounced visits to
the home of the couple and ask questions from the neighbors and
parents to make sure that they were living together and the marriage
was in the open.

   Now the procedure has been reversed.  The INS grants permanent
residence (the so called Green Card) without checking the validity (?)
of the marriage.  The time of the procedure has been cut down to only
a few months.

   This all to say that getting married just to get a green card is not
morally right, but the INS does not really care.  I am not even sure
that there is a law against it.

H. Reza Taheri
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