Undercover law enforcement agents recently posed as potential grooms and ‘married’ some people who were involved in a ‘marriage fraud’ racket to trap them. Those accused include Amelia Adams, Barbara Yater, and Vivek Patel among others
It looks like US officials have started watching Bollywood films. They now know exactly when and how Indian-origin Americans or American citizens marry Indians dying to get a green card, reported mirchi9.com. The law enforcement officials probably saw the Hrithik Roshan starrer, Kites, where he marries a Mexican to get her legal entry into the US.
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Usually, in such cases, those involved marry in exchange for an amount of dollars, and everything from the marriage set-up to pictures to the rest of paper work is taken care of by the brokers
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Another accused happens to be Vishal Kumar Chabbria, 41, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. His charge carries a penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine
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Also accused are Dishant Patel and Shweta Patel who also entered into fraudulent marriages for green cards only to end up ‘marrying’ undercover officers
Undercover law enforcement agents recently posed as potential grooms and ‘married’ some people who were involved in a ‘marriage fraud’ racket to trap them. Those accused include Amelia Adams, Barbara Yater, and Vivek Patel among others.
Usually, in such cases, those involved marry in exchange for an amount of dollars, and everything from the marriage set-up to pictures to the rest of paper work is taken care of by the brokers. Another accused happens to be Vishal Kumar Chabbria, 41, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. His charge carries a penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Also accused are Dishant Patel and Shweta Patel who also entered into fraudulent marriages for green cards only to end up ‘marrying’ undercover officers.
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