Our Story

Our Mission

Codias Law was founded to protect the most overlooked group in the immigration system: U.S. citizens. For decades, public attention fixated on the border, while a quieter and more insidious failure unfolded inside the lawful immigration system itself. Antifraud safeguards were dismantled, enforcement was deprioritized, and the agencies responsible for protecting the public drifted away from the very citizens they were meant to serve. Fraud spread in the shadows. And the Americans caught in its path were left without recourse, without advocates, and without a system that took their harm seriously. Codias Law was created to fix this.

Who We Serve

Our clients come from every walk of American life—teachers, physicians, engineers, veterans, contractors with access to sensitive facilities, media personalities, intelligence professionals, and high-net-worth individuals. Their backgrounds and beliefs span the entire spectrum. But their experiences share a common thread: they were targeted, deceived, exploited, or falsely accused by foreign nationals pursuing immigration benefits. Most believed they were building a relationship, a partnership, or a future. They had no idea they were building an immigration case for someone else.

When these citizens reached out for help, they found doors closed. Local police dismissed them. Family-law attorneys lacked the immigration knowledge necessary to understand the fraud. Traditional immigration lawyers represented foreign nationals—not the citizens harmed by them. And federal agencies, long insisting that fraud was “rare,” ignored unmistakable patterns of deception. These citizens were not just victimized; they were silenced.

Direct Harm to U.S. Citizens

Immigration fraud is not a technical violation. It is a deeply personal form of exploitation that inflicts emotional, financial, legal, reputational, and social harm. The citizens who contact us rarely begin with the word “fraud.” They begin with confusion, betrayal, and the feeling that their lives collapsed overnight.

There is emotional harm—manipulation, gaslighting, sudden withdrawal, and calculated mistreatment inside intimate relationships. There is financial harm—drained savings, coerced support, litigation costs, and the long shadow of the I-864. There is legal harm—false allegations that spark restraining orders, criminal investigations, and family-court disadvantages. There is reputational harm—lies becoming paperwork, paperwork becoming process, and process becoming public record. And there is social harm—familial isolation while a foreign national methodically constructs an immigration narrative that casts the citizen as the aggressor.

What makes these harms even more devastating is that the system meant to protect citizens often ignores them. ICE rarely investigates. DOJ rarely prosecutes. USCIS—according to the Government Accountability Office—lacks even a national antifraud strategy. Internal data obtained by our firm revealed that in key fraud-sensitive categories, USCIS denies cases for fraud at rates approaching zero. In effect, the nation’s immigration system has no functioning antifraud mechanism at all.

A National Epidemic

Immigration fraud is far broader than the public realizes. Marriage-based fraud remains a major category—including one-sided marriage fraud, VAWA fraud, and I-751 fraud—but U.S. citizens are also targeted through U visa fraud, T visa fraud, visitor-visa fraud, and other schemes driven by immigration incentives. The incentives are powerful: expedited residency, exemptions from visa caps, accelerated citizenship, and substantial leverage in state proceedings.

Congress has given the executive branch sweeping authority to prevent and respond to immigration fraud. Yet that authority is rarely used. The tools exist—what is missing is the will.

In 2025, these realities reached the national stage when Managing Attorney Cody M. Brown testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement. His oral testimony humanized the crisis through stories of real victims across the country—many of whom had been ignored by every institution around them. His written testimony delivered a historic, data-driven indictment of systemic failures inside DHS and DOJ, exposing how federal practices allowed fraud to flourish and outlining reforms with the potential to reshape national policy.

The testimony mattered because it told the truth—a truth federal agencies had avoided for years. It spoke on behalf of the citizens the system had forgotten.

What Drives Us

Codias Law was created because these citizens deserved more—more expertise, more advocacy, more protection, and more honesty from a system that had failed them. They deserved attorneys who put their interests—not the interests of foreign nationals—at the center of every decision. They deserved real investigations, rigorous legal analysis, and a firm willing to confront the government institutions that ignored them.

We accept only a limited number of matters to maintain the highest standards of care. Every timeline we build, every fraud assessment we issue, every federal filing we submit is crafted with meticulous precision to withstand scrutiny by agencies, investigators, and courts. The stakes for our clients are too high for anything less.

If you are a U.S. citizen harmed by immigration fraud, you have likely been dismissed, disbelieved, or made to feel invisible. You deserve better. You deserve someone who understands what happened, knows the law, and is willing to confront the system on your behalf.

We have your back.