Marriage fraud poses myriad risks, not only threats to national security
The arrests Thursday of three people in a marriage and immigration fraud case connected to the San Bernardino terror attack reflects a national problem in which marriage is used as a mechanism by foreign nationals to gain U.S. citizenship.
“The use of marriage as a vehicle to enable foreign nationals to gain lawful status is not uncommon,” said Virginia Kice, spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in a telephone interview Thursday. “We’ve had a large number of substantial cases here in Southern California involving marriage fraud.”
Kice noted the September indictment of Santa Fe Springs resident Jason Shiao, his daughter, Lynn Leung, and Shannon Mendoza, who stand accused of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to set up sham marriages between U.S. citizens and Chinese nationals seeking permanent residency in the U.S.
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