Sentence examples for fraudulent marriages from inspiring English sources

Mr. Blair said that by the end of the year Britain would close loopholes enabling outsiders to enter Britain by pretending to be students or through fraudulent marriages.

The prosecutor, Assistant United States Attorney Ken Bell, said the brothers, Mohamad and Chawki Hammoud, said their co-conspirators used fraudulent marriages to enter the United States, then smuggled cigarettes to help the group, Hezbollah.

My novel One Night, Markovitch starts on the eve of the second world war, when two men are sent to Europe to enter fraudulent marriages with Jewish women and get them out before it's too late.

While a foreign spouse of an American citizen is eligible for residency — and Ms. Robinson's husband, Louis Robinson, was American — the law also requires that a couple be married at least two years for the foreign spouse to be considered for residency, in part as a safeguard against fraudulent marriages.

Brent Renison, a lawyer in Portland, Ore., and the pro bono counsel for Surviving Spouses Against Deportation, said that even though the government needed to protect against fraudulent marriages, there should be some allowance in the interpretation of law to consider cases like Ms. Robinson's.

He said: "Registrars will be given new powers later this year to better identify all fraudulent marriages".

"Andie MacDowell plays a horticulturalist who will go to any lengths to keep her utopian, plant-filled aerie -- even a fraudulent marriage to a French composer played by Gérard Depardieu.

The policies he laid out are almost exclusively focused on non-violent crimes, such as illegally re-entering the country, entering a fraudulent marriage, document fraud and identity theft.

After all, every weekend she's forced to live tweet an episode of a TV show ("Kourtney and Kim Take New York") that depicts her in a seemingly fraudulent marriage that for the most part no longer exists.

Not long after her dismissal, revelations about Hayes began to surface: a fraudulent green-card marriage, allegations of influence peddling, and questions about her tax statements.

The last Baathist Minister of Higher Education under Saddam had withdrawn the points of certain applicants after determining that the marriages were fraudulent.