{"id":6945,"date":"2026-06-28T07:49:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=6945"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T14:49:21","slug":"marriage-fraud-not-a-good-way-to-gain-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2026\/06\/28\/marriage-fraud-not-a-good-way-to-gain-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage fraud not a good way to gain residency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legitimate and legal marriage is probably the most common way American women obtain residency in other countries (see <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2026\/01\/21\/start-here-the-myth-that-americans-can-easily-move-abroad\/\">Start here: The Myth that Americans Can Easily Move Abroad \u2013 Coldstreams Travel and Global Thinking<\/a>). Conversely, American men who marry a foreign woman usually move to the U.S. (The pattern is that women tend to relocate to where their male partner is from.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this example, a American woman boasts she married a Gaza man so he can live in the U.S.: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/27\/us-news\/far-left-teacher-married-gaza-man-to-give-him-us-citizenship\/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter\">Exclusive | Far-left teacher married Gaza man to give him US citizenship<\/a> &#8211; read the whole story to see why this looks like fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Committing marriage fraud to obtain residency or citizenship is not a good idea and is an actual Federal crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6946,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6945\/revisions\/6946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}