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华盛顿8月12日路透电 — 根据法庭文件，美国司法部周三起诉了11名涉案人员，他们参与了一项长达十年的计划，安排了约1000桩假婚姻，帮助主要来自中国的外籍人士获得美国合法移民身份。
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- 根据曼哈顿联邦法院 unseal 的起诉书，外籍人士需向一个由六名“ facilitators”组成的团伙支付每人最高10万美元，以换取与美国公民配对并获得合法居留权。起诉书显示，美国公民则可获得最高3万美元的报酬，以同意进行这场婚姻。
- 该计划的参与者随后会帮助这对“新婚夫妇”向美国国土安全部提交文件，以便中国籍人士能够成为合法永久居民。
- 司法部长托德·布兰奇将该计划描述为“美国历史上最大规模的婚姻欺诈起诉案之一”，并表示这暴露了“人们为了钻我们移民制度的空子会不择手段”。
- 此次公告发布于总统唐纳德·特朗普上周签署一项旨在限制“生育旅游”的行政令之后，此前美国最高法院裁定支持在美国出生婴儿的广泛公民权。
- 美国国务院周三表示，已启动一项审查签证持有者活动的工作，目的是打击那些 solely 来到美国只为让孩子获得公民身份的女性。
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US charges 11 in sham marriage immigration scheme, following Trump ‘birth tourism’ order
2026-08-12T18:08:46.884Z / Reuters
By Andrew Goudsward
August 12, 2026 6:08 PM UTC Updated ago
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WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday charged 11 people in a decade-long scheme that arranged about 1,000 sham marriages to allow mostly Chinese nationals to achieve legal immigration status in the United States, according to court documents.
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- Foreign nationals paid a group of six “facilitators” as much as $100,000 each to be paired up with a U.S. citizen and obtain legal residency, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court in Manhattan. U.S. citizens were paid as much as $30,000 to agree to the marriages, according to the indictment.
- Participants in the scheme then helped the newlyweds submit paperwork to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to allow the Chinese national to become a lawful permanent resident.
- Attorney General Todd Blanche described the scheme as “one of the largest marriage fraud prosecutions in U.S. history” and said it showed “how far people will go to cheat our immigration system.”
- The announcement follows an executive order signed by President Donald Trump last week aimed at restricting “birth tourism,” after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of broad citizenship rights for babies born in the United States.
- The State Department said on Wednesday it started an effort to review the activities of visa holders with the aim of cracking down on women coming to the U.S. solely to attain citizenship for their child.
Reporting by Andrew Goudsward; editing by Andy Sullivan and Alistair Bell
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