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USCIS Plays Key Role in Takedown of Decade-Long Marriage Fraud Ring

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USCIS helped expose a marriage fraud ring that orchestrated over 1,000 fake marriages across more than a decade. Eleven people have been indicted for participating in the scheme. This takedown demonstrates immigration authorities' efforts to combat fraud in family-based immigration petitions.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services played a key role in the indictment unsealed today charging 11 individuals with conspiring, over the course of more than a decade, to orchestrate more than 1,000 sham marriages. 

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