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  So all of this is just to say I do not understand how the government can find a marriage illegitimate.
  
  It's usually pretty straightforward actually.
  In most cases of marriage fraud that are actually pursued there's clearcut evidence that the union was entered into fraudulently, with the express purpose of gaining legal benefits.
  Most fraudulent marriages that are prosecuted involve two parties who have either never met, have only met briefly, or who meet only at the time of the marriage and then spend no time with one another after the marriage. 
  Evidence in such cases generally comes down to digital traces such as texts, emails, messages etc that show clear intent to enter into a fraudulent marriages or (even more immediately damning) one party who admits during questioning that the marriage was entered into purely for legal benefits or that they were compensated for entering into the marriage specifically for legal benefits such as immigration status.
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  There's an easy fraud. 
  I'm already legally married, I sign a doc saying I'm not, and get married again. 
  Fraud.