October 5, 2017
IRLI client, Elena Maria Lopez and Mike Siegel discuss how immigrants are using marriage to unsuspecting American citizens as a means to obtain legal status in the United States.
Lopez explains how she was forced to flee her home and go into hiding shortly after her Dutch husband admitted he only married her to get into the U.S. She describes the lengths he went to just to obtain citizenship, attempting to kill her, using intimidation tactics to keep her quiet, and lying about material facts to get his fiancé visa and green card.
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