is the following statement correct, or where can I read about this subject? any help is very much appreciated.
Under US law, anyone who applies for a tourist visa intending anything other than a short-term stay as a tourist commits fraud. If you get a tourist visa and start job-hunting, that's fraud. If you get a tourist visa, then sign a lease for an apartment, that's fraud. She obviously never intended a short-term "visit." She came here intending to stay. That's fraud - a felony, and a bar to future visas, visits, immigration applications.
why do you care unless you plan to violate our laws? Honest people don't need to understand the penalties for violating laws....they only have to be responsible enough to obey them in the first place.
You are absolutely right, but I didnt ask this question to violate the immigration law. I know somebody who did it, if this is really an immigration violation. and I dont want to report this, if it is not an immigration law violation. a coin has always two sides.