Sailors involved in marriage scam
 

God, I laughed.....



NEW YORK, New York (CNN) -- It was a scam involving green cards and greed, prosecutors said Thursday.


Federal authorities have arrested 33 couples and charged them with marriage fraud.

Dozens of young Eastern European women have been accused of marrying U.S. sailors not for love but for the right to stay in the United States. The sailors received marriage benefits they were not entitled to, court papers said.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/17/...des/index.html


I was especially amused by this comment: "Sailors who commit these crimes represent a very small percentage of sailors in the U.S. Navy." Apparently, they havent been paying attention to the "college age" sailors who get married for the hell of getting married for the exact same reasons - marriage benefits, housing, and more money due to separation allowance, and the women who just wanted the benefits of being married to a servicemember. Granted, most of the people I knew who did this waited, oh, 3 weeks before getting married, not just a couple of hours...but it's the same concept.

I think that there is another motive behind these arrests.

There are a hundred other variations of these fraud marriages that are not represented.

I understand there has been quite a few laws passed recently that make it extremely difficult to bring foreign brides into the states.