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The feds rounded up.....participants in a massive $1.5 million immigration fraud scheme......uniting illegal immigrants with U.S. citizens. Beverly Mozer-Browne, 49, is charged with raking in a fortune by fraudulently supplying hundreds of green cards to illegal immigrants after helping them tie the knot......Bronx reverend Cameron Lloyd, of the Faith Corporation and Baptist Church oversaw the nuptials...... Mozer-Browne (got) help from her brother Phillip Browne, 40, a district adjudication officer with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who rubber-stamped the green card applications........

The FBI is cracking down on ads in Chinese newspapers allegedly placed by members of Chinese organized crime offering a U.S. marriage and citizenship for a sizable sum, reports the Chinese-language World Journal. Members of Chinese criminal organizations reportedly address the ads to persons in China wishing to immigrate to the country. When a marriage partner is found, the criminals help negotiate the sum between the two sides and take a hefty cut. The cost of the "fake marriage" starts at $70,000 for a single person; $130,000 if one or two children are included; and $30,000-$50,000 for any additional members....

AHMEDABAD: An H1B visa without a job in the US! Sounds incredible? Not if you are in Gujarat, ready to take the risk and pay an astronomical sum to be on a foreign shore. Taking wings was perhaps never so easy before as a swarm of "consultants" out there are providing a populace hung up on immigrating a ticket to their El Dorado. As New York and London beckon, the murky world of fake passports and forged visas, false marriages and deals in lakhs, attract the youth. For this consultant sitting in his posh office on Gurukul Cross-roads, checks imposed...

Warning!One of my customers sent me this asking if it was legit! I have traced it to a scummy operation out of southern Florida advertised from Houston. It HAS been turned over to the FBI as a possible CREDIT CARD THEFT RING or IMMIGRATION FRAUD. They have a good firewall I can't break through ( Darn it! )Here's their info: Merchant Central, Inc.  222 S US Highway 1 Suite 1 Tequesta, Florida 33469 US Domain Name: GREENCARDPROCESSING.COM Administrative Contact: Domain Administrator dns@merchantcentral.com Merchant Central, Inc. 222 S US Highway 1 Suite 1 Tequesta, Florida 33469 US Phone: 015617483500  Fax: Subject:...

In a era when divorce and remarriage are commonplace, it might not be surprising for a city clerk to see some of the same names pop up on applications for marriage licenses from time to time. But it did strike the city clerk's office as highly unusual when it learned this year that one Manhattan woman had applied for 27 marriage licenses from 1984 to 2002 and that at least a dozen others had seemingly married in numbers that were highly suspicious.

n a era when divorce and remarriage are commonplace, it might not be surprising for a city clerk to see some of the same names pop up on applications for marriage licenses from time to time.But it did strike the city clerk's office as highly unusual when it learned this year that one Manhattan woman had applied for 27 marriage licenses from 1984 to 2002 — and that at least a dozen others had seemingly married in numbers that were highly suspicious.These "career brides," as one city official called them, were not marrying for love, according to the Manhattan district...