Green Card scam as crooks offer Irish ‘papers’

New York and Boston ‘agents’ peddle hoax plan

“I’d advise any Irish living in New York to contact their local immigration center if in doubt. If is seems too good to be true it could be, so check it out before handing over any money,” said O’Sullivan.

Lavery said that although the immigrants may get work authorization cards in a few months, they would have to deal with the possibility of being deported when they tried to go about getting their “green card.”

“These people were setting the immigrants up for a bad fall while trying to get rich,” said Lavery.

The 245(i) section of the immigration law allowed a person to become a permanent resident of the U.S. without leaving the country through a process called “adjustment of status.”  That provision lapsed in April of 2001.

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Nster.com