Last week it was confirmed that Porsha Williams was returning to The Real Housewives of Atlanta for season 16 with her new husband, Nigerian businessman Simon Guobadia [click here if you missed that].
Now it's being reported that Simon has been repeatedly denied U.S. citizenship because of his criminal record...
From Hollywood Unlocked
Simon Guobadia, the new husband of ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta (RHOA)’ star Porsha Williams, 42, was recently denied U.S. citizenship due to his reported criminal past — which involves numerous felonies for bank fraud, credit card fraud, identity fraud, and more. As Guobadia fights to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, the filing notes that his case is being dismissed.
On January 11, a 13-page petition was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia: Atlanta Division. The civil action filing was regarding Simon Iyore Guobadia against the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, UR Mendoza Jaddou, and the Director of the USCIS Atlanta Field Office, Shineka Miller.
Per the docs, Guobadia, 59, applied for U.S. citizenship and naturalization, but it was denied on July 27, 2022. Subsequently, he requested a hearing, and the denial was “reaffirmed.” It’s reported that Guobadia, a citizen of Nigeria, first came to the U.S. on August 11, 1982, and overstayed his visitor visa.
In 1985, his citizenship application was denied and he was declared deportable, so he voluntarily left the States on December 28, 1985. He reentered in June 1986 and again overstayed his 6-month visitor visa. In September 1987, Simon Guobadia was arrested for bank and credit card fraud and pleaded guilty to the felony.
Simon Guobadia was again arrested in January 1989 for unauthorized use of a vehicle and arrested once more in May 1990 for fraud. In January 1991, Guobadia committed another felony offense for credit card fraud and in April 1991, an immigration judge ordered him to be deported. On March 4, 1992, Guobadia was deported and physically removed from the States.
Before his deportation, on October 24, 1988, Guobadia was accused of using a different identity to seek temporary resident status under the Social Agricultural Worker (SAW) program. Despite omitting his criminal past and misrepresenting himself on the application, it was approved and he received a registration card as a temporary resident on July 25, 1991.
After a waiting period, Simon Guobadia became a permanent resident on April 27, 1992 — 26 days after he had been deported under his other, undisclosed identity. According to the docs, Guobadia applied for naturalization under a second identity on December 22, 2016, but was denied due to his “temporary resident status being unlawfully granted.”
On December 31, 2020, he filed another application and was denied U.S. citizenship again due to him not being “lawfully admitted for permanent residence.” On October 24, 2022, Guobadia requested a hearing, and his denial was reaffirmed on November 15, 2022 — the same month Guobadia married ‘RHOA‘ star Porsha Williams.
On March 13, 2023, Simon Guobadia filed an instant complaint, asking the Court to vacate the denial and grant him U.S. citizenship. However, on January 11, 2024, United States District Judge Steve C. Jones ordered that Guobadia’s case seeking naturalization be dismissed.
16 comments:
After all of those fraud cases why is he still here?
This is ridiculous , broke laws several times and engaged in fraud............................if he steps foot in the US again , straight to jail , he goes , end of story.
Lifestyle is king to most women , character and morals don't matter , as long as they get that lifestyle , nothing else matters. Not all women but it damn sure is looking like it is a lot of them. SMDH
But they keep letting in all those criminals at the southern border.
7:05am they are letting them in but they are not citizens and they not trying to apply for citizenship either. Notice he still here though even after all his crimes. What they are saying is we not gone give you citizenship but clearly they allowing him to stay here.
How convenient Porscha
Move to Africa.
Using multiple identities = fraud.
Funny she probably signed a pre-nup lol. She'll be filling for divorce once his scamming money dries up.
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If he was white tho…
12.10pm so it should be ignored because he's black I'm pretty sure he wasn't checking for skin color while he was scamming.
Now it's clear why she is coming back to the show. She has a true story to tell and needs money. Where you at Nene we need you to Bloop her.
She messing with an African Scammer… that’s bottom of the barrel… damn she must hard up for a man… she out here dealing with this degenerate scum bag.
The smile these African men wear on their face, is worthless. Theres a Afri woman somewhere in on his play. The prenup was a scam to prob.
Did she legally change her name?
Denied. The US will ship him away AGAIN
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