"... my husband became abusive toward our children and threatened to take them back to the Czech Republic if I did not sponsor him for his green card ... Facing deportation for marriage fraud, a charge leveled by the federal government, my husband, a former professional hockey player, at 6’2” tall and over 200 lbs., self petitioned as a battered and abused spouse."
Congress Warned of Widespread Fraud Victimizing Americans & Jeopardizing Nation's Security
RESULT: Lawmakers Expanded Loopholes Perpetuating Fraud
Americans Legally, Financially, Physically Victimized
White House Warned of National Security Risks
Amnesties for Fraud
Domestic-Violence & Crime-Victim Green Cards (VAWA, U Visas)
Bypass vetting & get a quick green card by claiming emotional or physical abuse
- Provides amnesty for criminal activities and inadmissibility
- Adverse evidence proving fraud: Barred
- Evidence required: None
- Interviews required: None
- Investigations required: None
- Vermont-based social work unit makes homeland security decisions
- Trained immigration investigators' ability to revoke: Halted
- Path to citizenship: Fast tracked
- Incentives for fraud: High
- Fraud rate documented: High
- Success rate: 75 - 85 %
- Bonus: U.S. taxpayers pay legal fees, housing and public benefits, immigration filings
Whistleblower Exposes National Security Cases & Dangerous Immigration Loopholes
- Julie Poner; U.S. citizen on her husband's successful immigration application (U.S. Senate hearing, 2011)
Keeps criminal amnesties & fast-tracked citizenship
for ANY foreigner claiming they're an abuse or crime victim
NO evidence, investigations or interviews required
Politicians debate illegal immigration yet ignore widespread fraud within LEGAL immigration
VAWA, U Visas Pose National Security Risks
Close Path for Criminals to Get Quick Green Cards
Immigration Fraud
- Elena Maria Lopez is a whistleblower.
- She's met with White House officials, congressional leadership, the FBI and various government agencies to warn them of national security risks within immigration loopholes;
- She testified before the U.S. Senate in 2017.
"The Abuse of VAWA: How False Accusations of Abuse Facilitate Fraud and Garner Green Cards"(Poner's 2018 Townhall opinion piece)
What is Fraud?
- NOT illegal immigration
- Considered more dangerous than illegal immigration: It allows dubious individuals to gain legitimate documents, U.S. passports, and legal access to the country
- When a foreigner acquires a LEGAL immigration status (known as a “green card”) through dubious or fraudulent means
- A perfect way to legalize a temporary visa or illegal status
- Rarely investigated: Overwhelmed with rampant fraud, government employees ignore the majority of cases reported
- Fraudsters rarely engage in just ONE type of fraud: Marriage cases may also involve financial fraud, false statements, false identities, false documents & hiding criminal activities
- NOT a victimless crime: It puts Americans and the nation's security at risk
- People of every race, ethnicity, political affiliation and sexual orientation are targeted through immigration fraud scams
- Naturalized U.S. citizens and first-generation Americans are just as likely to be victimized
"A few minutes later, I was looking down the barrel of a rifle ... I hired a retired FBI special agent as a private investigator. ...I figured if we clearly documented that Erik was inadmissible to get a green card in the first place, involved in criminal activities, lied on immigration forms, tried to kill me, repeatedly threatened me, and committed marriage fraud, the feds would have to do something. I was wrong."
-Elena Maria Lopez; U.S. citizen defrauded & almost killed by Dutch husband (U.S. Senate hearing, 2017)
ImmigrationFraud.com
- fake identities
- forged documents
- hiding criminal activities
- fraudulent work visas
- false statements & lying on immigration forms
- bigamy & sham marriages
- falsely claiming crime-victim status or abuse
Whistleblowing for “sunshine,” integrity & accountability – not partisanship
"... my fiancée indicated that she did not need me any more to get her green card and boasted that she can get it quicker in other ways. I thought she was joking ... During this time, my family in Pakistan has been harassed and threatened by her father and brothers. One of her brothers threatened to kidnap my niece.."
- Dr. Jamal Hussain; Naturalized U.S. citizen defrauded by Pakistani fiancée (U.S. Senate hearing, 2017)
Foreign criminals successfully bypassed background checks, investigations and interviews to gain U.S. citizenship and green cards, warned an immigration fraud whistleblower at White House meetings. After fraudulently gaining green cards through such loopholes, these foreign nationals immediately married military personnel with high-level security clearances.
The FBI was so concerned with such cases that it reached out to the American whistleblower about the cases ... (Read more)
Feds Claim 1,800 Applicants Somehow Not Complicit
- Dept. of Justice indictment, July 23, 2019
Did they actually interview the 1,800 applicants?
Will all 1,800 green cards be denied based on the blatant fraud?
Historically, the answer has been a resounding "no"