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Category Archives: Marriage Fraud
CA7 denies Motion to Continue hearing for witness to testify in support of good faith marriage waiver
Bouras, a citizen of Algeria, entered the U.S. in 1997 as a nonimmigrant business visitor and overstayed his visa. In 2006, while living in Chicago, he married Schreiner, who lived in Ohio. He was granted conditional permanent resident status based … Continue reading
CA7 denies I-751 extreme hardship waiver because an alien has no protected liberty interest in discretionary immigration relief
CA7 Denies Extreme-Hardship Waiver for Petitioner Convicted of Marriage Fraud. The court denied the petition for review, finding that the petitioner’s due process argument failed because he had no legitimate claim of entitlement to an extreme-hardship waiver under INA §216(c)(4). … Continue reading
Marriage Fraud Doctrines.
This Article examines the astonishing array of doctrines used to determine what constitutes marriage fraud. It begins by locating the traditional nineteenth-century annulment-by-fraud doctrine within the realm of contract fraud, observing that in the family law context fraudulent marriages were … Continue reading