In addition. this bill states that an alien who is the fiance or fiancee of a U.S. citizen and seeks to enter the United States to marry. must establish that the couple has previously met within 2 years. The McCollum bill also prohibits conditional permanent residents from attempting to end their conditional status prematurely through adjustment of status on some nonmarriage related basis: for example. a conditional permanent resident by adjusting under the sixth preference. These conditional residents would have no preference petitioning rights until the 2year period was up. Finally. the bill makes attempted marriage fraud a ground for deportation. The legislation is supported by the administration. The Senate passed a similar marriage fraud bill last summer.
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