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Green Card Scams Green Card Scams Nowadays, many people want to immigrate to another country where they run a new life and job. The United of States is a country that attracts many immigrants around the world to live and do business. How do they live and work legally when they are not citizens of the U.S.? According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the permanent residence card that is also known as the Green Card, is evidence that many immigrants can reside and work legally in the U.S (page 1, paragraph 2). In addition, the U.S green card is very important for immigrants when they want to fulfill the American dream that you can become a billionaire, a successful businessman or a Hollywood star. As it is an important card, many scammers have appeared to take advantage of immigrants who want to get it. Therefore, I decided to research some different kinds of green card scams in the U.S. I researched three main scams which are Irish immigrants in the U.S only need to pay a large amount of money to get the green card, scammers have related with immigration law employees who have arranged marriage frauds for Filipinos immigrants to the U.S citizens, and the Mozer-Browne brothers arranged marriage frauds and provided the green card scam in exchange for a large amount of money. These are the most popular green card scams in the U.S. that immigrants should to know and avoid. Some scams involve paying a lot of money to the scammers. In “Warnings Over Green Card Scam,” a scam agent, who has not been named, told Irish immigrants living in Boston that they need to pay $7,000 to get the green card and become the U.S citizen. In addition, they would get the green card within six months for a fee of $14,000 (Drew, 2010, paragraph 1 and 3). Kieran O’Sullivan and Chris Lavery, an immigration counselor at the IPC and an immigration attorney, surveyed that suspicious case and found that it was a green card scam. The scam agent has deceived Irish immigrants that the 245(i) section of immigration law, allowed immigrants to 1

Green Card Scams become the U.S. citizens, were still active and accepted an application of immigrants (Drew, paragraph 5). In Lavery’s survey, many 245(i) cases were still in processing, but it was no longer possible to transfer an application (paragraph 6). She also claimed that “ These so-called agents, one here in Boston and one in New York, were telling these Irish people that they could get them green cards by a sort of blanket petition that could be transferred to another individual” (paragraph 7). After doing survey, she believed that the scam agent was scamming Irish immigrants a lot of their money. Lavery and O’Sullivan tried to contact the scam agent, but they did not get answers from those scammers. Jim O’Malley, an immigration attorney of New York, warned Irish immigrants scammers can appear anytime and anywhere, and he informed to them that they should have avoided scams and looked for some advices. Moreover, he also gave advice that Irish immigrants should contact their local immigration center if they feel suspicious and carefully check all information before giving money to scammers (paragraph 17). Irish immigrants could get authorization work card in many months, and they also could be kicked out of the U.S if they tried to get green card in an illegal way. The Irish immigrants should know that the 245(i) section of the immigration law that permitted immigrants to become the U.S citizen has expired on April 2001 (last paragraph). Another scam involve arranging marriages fraud between Filipinos immigrants and the U.S. citizens. In “Green card scam snares mother of 5,” Maria Flordelis Pulido-Cruz, an immigrant and a former Cook County secretary, was sentenced to behind bars about conspiracy to commit marriage fraud for Filipinos immigrants to the U.S citizens (Anonymous, 2012). Moreover, in “Lawyer, brother meted jail terms,” Aguja twins who were indicted about relating to marriage fraud along with Cruz who was one of five Cook County employees, arranged some marriages fraud between the U.S. citizens and Filipinos immigrants that they could get the green 2

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Green Card Scams card and legally reside (Anonymous, 2012). Manny Aguja, an immigration attorney, sentenced in prison from 12 to 24 months and had to pay $10,000 fine with his brother who is Marc Aguja. Aguja twins and Cruz admitted their offense of marriage fraud that undocumented immigrants, primarily Filipinos, could get the green card and be legal residence. The anonymous author claimed that Cruz recruited the U.S. citizens to participate in marriage fraud conspiracy (paragraph 5). Cruz earned $1,000 to $3,000 for each marriage fraud that she arranged, and those U.S. citizens earned $3,000 after marriage and $300 per month until they get married (Green card scam snares mother of 5, paragraph 6 and 7). Unfortunately, the next marriage fraud arrangement was discovered when she was trying to arrange a marriage between a U.S. citizen and a secret agent. She was accused of carrying out that plans through lawyers Manny and his brother. According to prosecutors, “ Cruz tried to help deceive immigration officials by instructing the couples to share details about their lives, take photos together and file joint taxes” (paragraph 5). She arranged 15 marriage frauds from July 2003 to October 2009, and she also tried to arrange two additional marriage frauds with other secret federal agents (paragraph 9 and 10). In addition, Crystal William, executive director for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, has been teaching her employees about marriage frauds to get the green card in the illegally way and organizing the campaign ‘notario’ to prevent peope acting as immigration lawyer. She also gave an advice that immigrants should know the exact information of lawyer who they hire to handle green card cases to avoid fraud. If the lawyer requires you to lie, that is a case of fraud (paragraph 15 to 17). Another green card scam also involved arranging marriages fraud between the U.S. citizens and immigrants. In “Dozens caught in green card scam,” Persaud claimed that “Mozer- Browne fraudulently procured green cards from the United States Citizenship and Immigration 3

Green Card Scams Services in exchange for fees ranging from $8,000 to $16,000 per customer by arranging several sham marriages” (2008, paragraph 3). Mozer got the green cards scam from her brother, who was employed by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. She was also sentenced in prison 30 months about fraudulent immigrants millions of dollars from making the green card scams and confiscated 1 million dollars and assets. Help Preparers Professional Services, customer support service for legal and financial issues, allowed immigrants to seek fraudulent green cards. In addition, immigrants who came to that company to looking for the green card scams, were provided marriage scam documents by Mozer and her employees in two ways. In the first way, Mozer and her scam colleagues who pays for the U.S. citizens to participate in marriage frauds. In another way, they created scam documents about marriage between the U.S. citizens and immigrants that have happened in the past (paragraph 5). After applying marriage scam documents, Mozer and her scam colleagues have prepared documents to apply the green card which were a fraudulent birthday certificate, scam letters of acceptance from the company and the bank, and then they sent the application to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The applicant would receive an appointment for an interview with. Mozer’s brother, an officer for USCIS, accepted the application for interviews to get the green card without requiring the applicant to interview (the indictment, paragraph 6). Mozer, her brother and their scam colleague were accused for providing hundreds of green card scams to applicants and receiving interest of more than 1 million dollars. Mozer and her brother pleaded guilty to deceiving immigrants to marry the U.S. citizens for getting the green cards on September 7 th , 2007. Peter Absolam, one of Mozer’s scam colleague, was also sentenced in August 2007. To summarizes, my research paper has three different green card scams in the U.S. First, Irish immigrants in the U.S who want to get the green card and become the U.S. citizens, only 4

Green Card Scams need to pay a large amount of money. According to Jim’s advices, the scammers can appear anytime and anywhere, and the immigrants should be contacted to their local immigration and known that the 245(i) section were changed. Second, the secretary Cruz and Aguja admitted their scams of marriage fraud which are between the U.S. citizens and Filipinos immigrants. Crystal claimed that immigrant should be known exactly their attorney they hire to handle green card cases to avoid scamming. Lastly, the Mozer-Browne brothers arranged marriage frauds and provided the green card scam without interview, and they got a lot of dollars from their scamming cases. In my advices, immigrants who want to get the green card in the U.S., should hit the actual steps and through it in a legal way. If many strangers tell you that you can get the green card just paying them a bunch of money, you should be suspicious and make sure it with your local immigration. In addition, the American dream is a piece of cake for immigrants if they comply with the U.S. laws. In other words, they should be aware of how to get a legal green card, get more advices from trusted people, and update latest news everyday at where they are immigrating. 5

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Green Card Scams References Drew, A. (2010). Warnings Over Green Card. Irish voice, 24(36), p.3 Green Card Scam Snares Mother of 5 (2012). Filipino Reporter, 40(7), p.1&6 Lawyer, Brother Meted Jail Terms (2012). Filipino Reporter, 40(12), p.1&4 Persaud, F. (2008). Dozens Caught in Green Card Scam. New York Amsterdam News, 99(10), p.14 United States. Department of Homeland Security. (2016). Office of Inspector General, Author. Retrieved from https://permanent.access.gpo.gov/gpo76568/OIG-17-11-Nov16.pdf 6

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