Hannah Kobayashi's family investigating possibility she was part of immigration marriage scam
Hannah Kobayashi’s family said they are investigating whether she was involved in a possible green card marriage scam but stressed that nothing has been confirmed yet.
Hannah Kobayashi’s family said they are investigating whether she was involved in a possible green card marriage scam but stressed that nothing has been confirmed yet.
Police said Monday that Kobayashi, 30, of Hawaii, who was the center of a missing person search in Los Angeles, had willfully crossed into Mexico and was reclassified as a “voluntary missing person.”
A Los Angeles Magazine report published Wednesday, citing sources, said she may have been involved in a green card marriage as part of an immigration scam for money before she disappeared.
Hannah Kobayashi.Los Angeles International Airport Police DepartmentThe report said Kobayashi may have been scammed out of proceeds in the purported scheme, involving her marrying an Argentine man.
The source said the possible scam was discovered by Kobayashi’s mother, who found immigration documents in her daughter's Hawaii home that listed an immigration attorney.
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