USCIS CRACKS DOWN ON MARRIAGE GREEN CARDS: INTIMACY TURNED TO EVIDENCE, DEPORTATION RISK RISES

A historian’s first-person account illustrates how marriage-based green card applicants must transform private lives into legal proof under heightened USCIS scrutiny. The piece links the 1986 Marriage Fraud Amendments to mid-2025 policy shifts that expand evidentiary burdens and raise the risk of referrals to removal for spouse-based applicants. With millions of family petitions pending, the narrative personalizes an accelerating, high-severity pattern affecting families nationwide.