Thread: Mexican actress Fernanda Romero accused of sham marriage

By Nick Allen in Los Angeles
Published: 11:07PM BST 19 Apr 2010

Romero, 28, has appeared in more than a dozen television shows and movies, including alongside Jessica Alba in The Eye in 2008, but prosecutors say her biggest act was pretending to be a bride.

She and her husband were arrested at their separate Los Angeles homes and charged with marriage fraud, the US attorney's office said.

They accuse Romero of paying Kent Ross, 28, to marry her in 2005, so that she could become a US resident, and claim they never lived together.

An investigation into Miss Romero began after a jilted boyfriend, a fashion photographer who she began dating shortly after getting married, told immigration authorities that the marriage was a sham.

If convicted, Romero and Ross, a musician and pizza delivery man, could be sentenced to up to five years in prison.

They were both released after initial court appearances and a judge told Romero not leave the country and surrender her passport.

Miguel Unzueta, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent in Los Angeles, said: "This actor should have realised that posing as a bride for immigration purposes could land her a role in a real-life crime drama."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... a-man.html

Is Obama busting his tail to give her policy amnesty?

Dixie

Good exmaple that even with money, these people are wanting the easy way around our immigration laws. It's not about the jobs, it is not about our immigration system (they say it is broken and needs to be fixed), it is about getting in the back door, sneaking in and stealing away what is not theirs to have (citizenship status) without an effort.

Laziness and corrupted thinking, that's all it is. She needs to be deported just as Elvira was, and told she cannot come back in for a long time (or at all).