Marriage based green card interview

[Houston2016]

5. Unfortunately dreamerdancer42, for every good and honest couple out there, there's going to be 30 who are frauds.

So, statistically 30 out of 31 applicants are frauds?!! Are you truly believe in it!?

I'm an immigrant, by the way by I-360, my husband is immigrant c9, so by your math one of us should've commited a fraud!?

NO, that stuff doesn't happens all the time, it does happens but definitely much less than "honest couple out there".

[UScitizenFilingforspouse]

Just because we aren't aware of how fraud happens, or where it's happened, or are not involved in fraud, that does not mean that it does not happen - "all the time"; "some of the time" "frequently" "Often enough" "often" - the adverb does not really matter. It happens often enough that USCIS created FDNS (Fraud Detection and national Security) in 2004 in order to strengthen USCIS?s efforts to ensure immigration benefits are not granted to individuals who pose a threat to national security or public safety, or who seek to defraud our immigration system. And then in 2010, FDNS was promoted to a Directorate which elevated the profile of this work within USCIS, brought about operational improvements, and enhanced the integration of the FDNS mission in all facets of the agency?s work.

At the end of the day, I can only speak for my marriage. And I believe that's just as much as everyone else can do. I have no basis to believe that my case is representative of everyone who files on the basis of marriage to a US citizen. Marriage fraud rings are busted often enough to make the news. We can't also believe that fraud does not happen because more people are not busted. It happens. A lot of people just aren't caught.

Here is a good one. This woman married 8 men and sought immigration benefits for some of them.

https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/directorates-and-program-offices/fraud-detection-and-national-security/fraud-detection-and-national-security-directorate

https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-efforts-lead-guilty-convictions-florida-marriage-fraud-ring

https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-efforts-lead-sentencing-florida-marriage-fraud-ring

[Houston2016]

Data Set: All USCIS Family‐Based Adjustments I-485:
2017:
Forms Received: 365,716
Denied: 37,047 ~10.13%
Approved: 275,931 ~75.45%
2018 (1st and 2nd Quarter):
Forms Received: 163,956
Denied: 18,207 ~11.10%
Approved: 132,741 ~80.96%

If assume, not all denied are frauds and not all approved are honest couples, it's not even close to 50/50.

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Just because we aren't aware of how fraud happens, or where it's happened, or are not involved in fraud, that does not mean that it does not happen - "all the time"; "some of the time" "frequently" "Often enough" "often" - the adverb does not really matter. It happens often enough that USCIS created FDNS (Fraud Detection and national Security) in 2004 in order to strengthen USCIS?s efforts to ensure immigration benefits are not granted to individuals who pose a threat to national security or public safety, or who seek to defraud our immigration system. And then in 2010, FDNS was promoted to a Directorate which elevated the profile of this work within USCIS, brought about operational improvements, and enhanced the integration of the FDNS mission in all facets of the agency?s work.

At the end of the day, I can only speak for my marriage. And I believe that's just as much as everyone else can do. I have no basis to believe that my case is representative of everyone who files on the basis of marriage to a US citizen. Marriage fraud rings are busted often enough to make the news. We can't also believe that fraud does not happen because more people are not busted. It happens. A lot of people just aren't caught.

Here is a good one. This woman married 8 men and sought immigration benefits for some of them.

https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/directorates-and-program-offices/fraud-detection-and-national-security/fraud-detection-and-national-security-directorate

https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-efforts-lead-guilty-convictions-florida-marriage-fraud-ring

https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-efforts-lead-sentencing-florida-marriage-fraud-ring

"Immigration and Citizenship Data
We receive and adjudicate an average of 7 million petitions and applications annually.* These petitions and applications typically allow foreign nationals to stay in United States as lawful permanent residents (LPR) or immigrants, to stay temporarily to work as nonimmigrants, or to obtain U.S. citizenship."
A big number of immigration frauds, including those who weren't caught, is still a very small proportion out of honest applicants.
I refuse to believe that 6 (Six) articles spreaded from 2016 to 2018 is representing 7 millions applicants per year!

[UScitizenFilingforspouse]

Data Set: All USCIS Family‐Based Adjustments I-485:
2017:
Forms Received: 365,716
Denied: 37,047 ~10.13%
Approved: 275,931 ~75.45%
2018 (1st and 2nd Quarter):
Forms Received: 163,956
Denied: 18,207 ~11.10%
Approved: 132,741 ~80.96%

If assume, not all denied are frauds and not all approved are honest couples, it's not even close to 50/50.

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"Immigration and Citizenship Data
We receive and adjudicate an average of 7 million petitions and applications annually.* These petitions and applications typically allow foreign nationals to stay in United States as lawful permanent residents (LPR) or immigrants, to stay temporarily to work as nonimmigrants, or to obtain U.S. citizenship."
A big number of immigration frauds, including those who weren't caught, is still a very small proportion out of honest applicants.
I refuse to believe that 6 (Six) articles spreaded from 2016 to 2018 is representing 7 millions applicants per year!

We have no way of knowing. What is important though is to recognize the wide gamut of opinions on this forum may be representative of the range of opinions that Immigration Services Officers may have. The best we can do is follow the directions and submit all your evidence of bona fide marriage with your AOS applications, as required by the I-130 instructions.

[Houston2016]

"Read The Manual"

The best we can do is follow the directions and submit all your evidence of bona fide marriage with your AOS applications, as required by the I-130 instructions.

Absolutely agree!
My first mentor's answer for all my question was "Read The Manual". I follow his advice all the time, if it's new project at work, or IKEA furniture, or USCIS application

[UScitizenFilingforspouse]

Absolutely agree!
My first mentor answer for all my question was "Read The Manual". I follow his advice all the time, if it's new project at work, or IKEA furniture, or USCIS application

I LOVE putting together furniture! LOL

[krypton9591]

I LOVE putting together furniture! LOL

If it's IKEA furntiture I highly recommend you learn to speak Swedish fluently that way you don't mistakenly for the vinds?ck br?nnare burk in the bordgensticken, when it should have gone into the tr?dg?rdsslang badkarf?rbindningsventil.

[UScitizenFilingforspouse]

If it's IKEA furntiture I highly recommend you learn to speak Swedish fluently that way you don't mistakenly for the vinds?ck br?nnare burk in the bordgensticken, when it should have gone into the tr?dg?rdsslang badkarf?rbindningsventil.

Haha, I wish I could speak Swedish!