Green Card Marriage

A marriage of convenience plot where two characters wed so one can obtain legal residency or citizenship, typically for immigration purposes, and the relationship starts as a transactional arrangement before real feelings develop.

Readers love the high-stakes urgency and the forced proximity of a sham marriage that creates a practical, no-strings bond that inevitably cracks under emotional pressure, offering a slow-burn path to genuine love and the thrill of fake intimacy turning real.