By Barbara O’Brien | The Buffalo News
The nervous bride and groom met for the first time Oct. 7, 2020, in the parking lot of Hamburg Town Hall, right before they went in to obtain a marriage license.
The next day, they returned to the town clerk’s office, where they were married in a brief, civil ceremony. They went outside the building and posed for photographs to document the happy day.
It was all a sham, part of a widespread ring of fraudulent marriages that allowed foreign nationals to stay illegally in the United States, according to federal authorities.
