According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), marriage fraud accounts for approximately 37% of illegal immigration.  Spouses of both U.S. Citizens and U.S. Permanent Residents are eligible, through slightly different processes with varying time frames, to become  U.S. Permanent Residents and eventual citizens.Â
On October 6, 2009,  Sgt. Wesly Farris and Stephen Schneider pleaded guilty [...]