Green Card

In an art appreciation class at BYU I met a guy, I think his name was Paul Mikstas, from Canada. He was a roommate of Bill Russell, a guy I worked with in the laundry for the PE department. I didn't know Paul very well, we just chatted in class. Then one day he approached me with an amazing proposition.

Paul wanted me to marry him. He wanted to be able to stay in the United States and he could do that if he was married  to a US citizen for at least one year. He was willing to pay for all of my expenses for that year- school, food, housing, whatever. I could continue to lived in the dorms or wherever. He would make no physical demands on me. My part would be that I would accompany him when he had to visit with immigration people and swear that we were living as man and wife. After he was given permanent residence, we would get a divorce. It would all be over by the time by boyfriend came home from his mission.

I admit I thought about it until the next time we had class. I was poor and the money would have been welcome, but it was so dishonest, I just could not do it. Paul and I still stayed friendly. He dropped in to visit me a few weeks before I married Dennis, to visit and to bring me a message from Bill who had graduated and gone home to Canada.

This was really the first I had heard about this type of thing going on so people could get a 'green card' and stay in the states.  I have since known at least one person who actually did it.

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