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sums of cash including all of the wages he earned while working
at Delcare, plus additional money that petitioner gave him.
Petitioner testified that it was during the last of Mr.
Khalil Aly’s extended trips to Egypt that she received a visit
from agents of the FBI. The FBI agents informed petitioner that
Mr. Khalil Aly was perpetrating a ruse: that he was, and had
always been, married to his wife in Egypt, that he came to the
United States for the primary purpose of marrying a citizen here,
and that he was not in line to become the next “Egyptian Medical
Ambassador to the United States.” The FBI strongly advised
petitioner to seek an annulment from the Family Court in Delaware
so that Mr. Khalil Aly (who the FBI perceived as a threat to
national security) could not “use” his “marriage” to a U.S.
citizen to gain reentry into the United States.
On the basis of the foregoing facts, and the suspect
circumstances under which Mr. Khalil Aly came to the United
States (including the brevity of his and petitioner’s engagement
period (apparently days, at most)), we conclude that Mr. Khalil
Aly was, in fact, married at the time that a marriage ceremony
was conducted in Florida, assuming that such a ceremony actually
occurred. Under Florida law, a person who has a living spouse
and marries another person is guilty of a felony of the third
degree. Fla. Stat. Ann. sec. 826.01 (West 2006). Therefore, the
marriage entered into by petitioner and Mr. Khalil Aly in Florida
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