The Marriage Fraud Amendments of 1986 (“IMFA”) were enacted in response to a growing concern about aliens seeking permanent residence in the U.S. on the basis of marriage to a citizen or resident when either the alien acting alone, or the alien and his or her reputed spouse acting in concert, married for the sole purpose of obtaining permanent residence. Congress was particularly moved by the testimony of numerous citizens whose alien spouses had left them shortly after obtaining residence, as well as the t estimony of Service representatives concerned with “marriage for hire” schemes. Congress also acknowledged the inherent difficulties faced by the Service in determining whether the marriage is fraudulent and whether the alien intended to leave the marital union once lawful permanent residence was granted.
Source: http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/AFM/HTML/AFM/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-11685/0-0-0-11691.html
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VOICE OF AMERICAN IMMIGRATION FRAUD VICTIMS is not a group that is anti-women or anti-immigrants. In fact, some of our members ARE immigrants and women that have taken on leadership roles within our group. Our purpose is not to get VAWA overturned. We are simply trying to bring national attention to how VAWA laws are used within the immigration system to deny an American spouse a fair opportunity to present a defense to the USCIS when an allegation of abuse is made by a foreign spouse, whether it be a man or a woman. We are actively lobbying members of the House and Senate to make changes to VAWA and the immigration system that will prevent foreign spouses from being rewarded with a green card when a false claim of abuse is made.
Read more at http://www.immigrationfraudvictims.com/
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Another concern leveled by Republicans is that the VAWA re-authorization contains no protections for citizens against marriage fraud. In most circumstances, an immigrant must rely on his or her citizen spouse to file for a visa. If abuse is alleged, under VAWA, the immigrant is able to apply for his own visa with a VAWA Self-Petition — opening up the possibility of fraudulent marriages and allegations of abuse once the would-be petitioner is in the country.
The Senate Judiciary Committee received 22 letters from spouses who claimed to be victims of that kind of fraud.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/17/the-problems-with-the-violence-against-women-act/#ixzz1udTnPDsO
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
Class action against Apple for location tracking moves forward
According to The Verge
Northern California District Judge Lucy Koh has ruled that Apple will face a lawsuit over last year's location tracking scandal. The case will now move forward to pretrial fact-finding, although Bloomberg reports that some of the claims in the case have been dismissed. Koh has now lifted the stay of discovery and ordered Apple to start turning over documents to the plaintiff's lawyers by May 17. The judge threatened Apple with sanctions if she learns of any obstruction or "game play" during the exchange of information
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