Fraudulent marriages

In my last letter, I wrote that immediate relatives of U.S. citizens and Permanent Residents filing fraudulent documents to get U.S. green cards should be very afraid. After all, in a small community everybody tends to know everybody else’s business, and your neighbors, friends, and co-workers already know if you are in fact married or just living a lie. Besides, what we common people do not know, the FBI most assuredly will know. So be afraid!

The same warning should go to IR’s of citizens of the freely associated states such as FSM, Palau, and the Republic of Marshall Islands. Those who are actually married and living with their spouses have nothing to be afraid of since they will probably receive the assistance they need from each respective government. But those who have knowingly filed fraudulent documents with CNMI Immigration Office, year after year, stand to be investigated, fined, and deported. I am talking about those who “married” a citizen of the FAS states only on paper while he/she was actually married to someone else and has continued to live with, cohabitate, and raise a family with this someone else. If this is not a clear indication of fraud, I do not know what is.

If you are guilty of fraud, you know who you are. We know who you are. Your neighbors know who you are. Your co-workers know who you are. How long do you really think you will be able to keep making a mockery of marriage in order to remain here, taking jobs away from lawful residents?

Your neighbors who are legal and lawful residents of the CNMI are probably jobless while you and your spouse are working here after having obtained status under false pretenses and fraudulent means. Do you really think it is okay? Do you really think you deserve the respect of the community for having lied to all of us from the very beginning for your own selfish interest? And exactly what do you tell your children? Or do you just tell them it is okay to lie and to keep lying?

Jobless residents and citizens need to be more vigilant about these individuals who are here fraudulently. Report them because they are possibly the reason why you are not able to get a job.

As for the “wives” or “husbands” of these individuals, please be afraid also. You could be fined for aiding and abetting. Or even go to the monkey house.