In my reading of other countries' practices, Ms. Marshall was absolutely correct that many other countries have some form of conditional status, yet in each of those countries the concern about marriages of convenience and marriage fraud has not abated. Nobody has said this has either reduced or eliminated the problem, so that suggests that whatever the problem is, this isn't working, but it does have these negative effects in terms of exacerbating exposure to violence.
One of the things that's never been clear is the size of this problem. There is actually very little reliable data about the scope of this problem of marriages of convenience. Although it is a deplorable practice, how much of our public policy should be oriented toward solving this problem as opposed to, let's say, problems of long delays in family reunification? So in choosing to make this the focus of a policy, I think it's worth the committee exploring through its study the question...not only do other states do this, but does it work? If it doesn't work, why are we doing it? There's no point borrowing bad policies.