The Green Card marriage business
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NewOldGuy77
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One agent notices the same man’s info popping up ascspouse on eight different applications - decides to investigate and begins in-home interviews, where he is offered favors by several of the “brides” to look the other way. Maybe he falls in love with one and demands her for himself in return for covering up the fraud...
Bubo_bubo
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It sounds interesting but I'd feel obliged to read up on how green cards actually work.
gunhilltrain
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Apparently they're pretty strict. It would take some great con-man skills to pull off eight marriages. Anyway, he'd be in trouble long before proof of consummation is required - marriage number two, if discovered, would doom him alone.
My idea of a greed card story is that some American guy does it because he's promised some cash on the back end. I think there used to be Craig's List ads with such offers. Anyway, when he moves in with his new bride (I usually picture as her as an Eastern European lady), true love blooms although neither of them expected it.
It's almost two sappy for even me to believe. More likely Ms. Belarus or whoever would be nagging the hell out of him, taking all the resources she can grab from him, and banging young bad boys on the side. I guess there's is a story in that scenario too.
Carnevil9
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They are pretty strict. I have a friend who married a woman from China. They had to jump through lots of hoops before the authorities were satisfied. Incidentally, they have been married for over twenty years now and have a bunch of kids, so it really was genuine.
Definitely some good story potential here.
Definitely some good story potential here.
sirhugs
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maybe he stays out of trouble by having spare wives service the immigration investigators?
LupusDei
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...going squarely in human trafficking territory, bringing at least as much trouble as it solves, but hey, that is, in fact, a business.
Maybe it could be interesting how someone just trying to help a chain of some casually known girls immigrate ends up a pimp by accident.
gunhilltrain
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The happy marriage idea (or happily-ever-after) would probably go over well with a lot of Romance readers. However, I don't see myself writing it.
gunhilltrain
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That's true, in that girls looking for overseas jobs sometimes wind up in the hands of human traffickers. They pay outrageous fees - go into debt actually - to get smuggled into a country and that's how they get trapped. Such a story on Lit would probably have to go into Non-erotic, because it's sexual but not erotic per se. Anyway, another one I'm not writing.
