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According to immigration lawyer Carl Shusterman, what the government calls a ‘fraudulent spouse profile’ — and he calls a ‘phony baloney marriage’ — is a relatively common way immigrants evade rules that would otherwise keep them out. Isabel believes that in Miami, it’s easy to find American citizens short on cash and ready to offer their hand in marriage for up to $12,000 a hitch. Shusterman was previously a government immigration officer who investigated suspicious marriages as part of his job. He estimates that 500,000 and 600,000 of the 1 million people who immigrate to the United States each year obtain their green card through marriage. Mixed in with the many legitimate marriages are ‘fraudulent spouses.’

For immigrant brides, walking down the aisle is perhaps the easiest step in the process. The bride and groom will go through a series of interviews meant to test whether they married for love or for passport. Immigration agents, on the lookout for any sign of fraudulence, can ask for anything from joint tax filings to the brand of shampoo he or she uses.

If agents get suspicious during the interview, you can get arrested on the spot and subsequently deported. Not only that, your dream of staying in the United States would be washed away forever by section 204c of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

That provision states that any immigrant found to be married for the purpose of evading immigration laws can never be granted a visa and never again allowed into the country.

‘You’re under a life sentence — you can never get back in and there’s no forgiveness,’ Shusterman said. ‘You’re better off robbing a liquor store as far as your immigration application is concerned.’

By LARA SETRAKIAN

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