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

Perspectives on History|Aug 20, 2025
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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.

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REPORT: IRELAND IPAS ASYLUM SITE RAN 5 YEARS WITHOUT PLANNING — FOI SHOWS NO RECORD BEFORE 2024

An Irish report says Setanta House in Ardee housed asylum applicants under IPAS since 2019 without any planning application or recorded exemption until late 2024, when a retrospective exemption was granted. FOI replies indicate the council had no correspondence or records showing pre-2024 planning status or contract evidence from the Department of Justice/IPAS. The article links the case to a Comptroller & Auditor General audit that found widespread lack of planning permissions or exemptions across sampled IPAS centres, suggesting systemic governance and compliance failures. It calls for greater transparency and enforcement around asylum accommodation contracting and oversight.

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