Immigration fraud enforcement
June 13th, 2010 at 12:20 pm ETIn “Do You Take This Immigrant”, the NYT’s Nina Bernstein interviews people on both sides of the desk at one particular immigration office: the one where green-card applicants and their US-citizen spouses are questioned separately and together to root out cases of fraud.
The incidence of fraud is very, very low, but that doesn’t keep this process from being emotionally draining and controversial. The examiners interviewed come off as, on the whole, respectful and thoughtful people. One of them is even herself a US permanent resident. It’s worth noting that a Federal district court settlement almost four decades ago put extra safeguards in place with regard to this process in New York that don’t apply elsewhere.
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