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Sex and the Citizenship Process - Lux Magazine

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Why people keep sending nudes to immigration authorities.

Sexts. Suggestive photos. Saucy videos. More than you might think, this kind of intimate ephemera ends up on the desks of immigration officers vetting marriages between U.S. citizens and noncitizens, forever to be archived in the cabinets of American bureaucracy. It happens often enough that some immigration officers have taken to calling these materials — sent in as marriage bona fides — “boner fides” in jest. Lawyers and immigration officers have tons of anecdotes about mixed-status couples sending in inappropriate materials as part of their green card applications. Ron Abramson, an…

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