QUESTION
Naturalized US citizen is a polygomist and lied on his application
Asked on May 30th, 2013 on Immigration - Oregon
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I married him in Sept. 2007 in a Muslim ceremony. It was never reported to US govt, but I have received visas from his home country as his wife. He was and still is married to his first wife, the woman he based his green card application and his citizenship application on. He had a lawyer deal w/ INS. When he was told INS wanted to see the two of them inINS office, together he said she would not be available. Now that he's citizen, can he be denaturalized and kicked out of US for this? He just got citizenship feb. 2013. He lied on document asking if he ever committed polygamy. He's basically lied to INS about his marital status since I met him in Dec. 2002 about still being with his wife and actually before that since they had split in 2001. Are there any time statues/limitations that would allow him to get away with this. Also since he is legally married to her and to me (according to his govt./Islam) didn't he committed a felony by lying on his application?
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It is, of course, illegal to lie to obtain any immigration benefit. However, proving the lie can be difficult for law enforcement. Your word alone would not be sufficient. The US attorney would need to agree to take a case to prosecute someone and then if they were convicted, only then could citizenship be revoked. Based on what you said, I don't believe a US attorney would take this case. You could contact the local US attorney and see.
Answered on Jun 10th, 2013 at 12:56 AM