Green Card Wedding

Couple arrested in green card marriage scam internet ad.

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This story is taken from information from: Scott Glover

Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

December 7, 2007

A twenty four year old woman from Russia named Kalinina was looking for a husbad to help her get her green card and she turned to the internet and placed an ad.

She placed the classified ad in the free popular Craigslist website and offered the following in the ad:

"Green Card Marriage -- Will pay $300/month. Total $15,000," the Russian national living in Los Angeles wrote in an ad placed on the Craigslist website. "This is strictly platonic business offer, sex not involved." AND "NOT required to live together." She made it quite clear that she wanted a business relationship.

Kalinina's ad found her a husband and the interest of agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE for short.

Kalinina and her internet hubby named Benjamin Adams both found themselves arrested last week at their separate homes.

Kalinina leased hubby Ben Adams a new Ford Mustang as a perk for assisting her with the immigration problem.

Performing the alleged sham marriage ceremony was one Dmitri Chavkerov who was ordained over the Internet and is allegedly the live in boyfriend of Kalinina...


Assistant U.S. Attorney general Curtis A. Kin is quoted as saying: "I'd say it's a fairly blatant example of marriage fraud,"

Supposedly Kalinina began advertising in Craigslist in October 2005 and this maybe the first reported incident of the internet being used for a scam marriage...

Technology being used for newer and greater methods to defraud the system...

Kalinina posted at minimum of 8 craigslist ads with the heading: "Green Card Marriage -- Will pay $300/month. Total $15,000."

What is funny is that the man she "married" is here illegally as well.

Be very careful about fake marriages as you will sign a pledge and guarantee to the federal government that you will reimburse the feds for any welfare or support that the government gives to your spouse.

This will be for a minimum of 10 years and it could be forever if the "wife" never works or so I was told by an immigration attorney. Fake marriages can really cost you as well as jail time.

I do not knowling participate in fake wedding scams and I warn all of those against it.

Chaplain Bob Walker B.Th.

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