My late brother-in-law married a Chinese woman whose mother moved from China and collected SS despite never having worked in the US. No wonder it’s going broke.
Well, that is the Social Security’s fault, but they don’t care. It’s not their money. If they had to pay it out of their own pocket it would change.
Happens all the time in High Tech.
There is a reason engineers from India bring their entire family and its NOT to be close to family.