immigration fraud

A group of criminals set up a fake U.S. “immigration court” inside a Venezuelan prison to scam migrants in New York out of thousands of dollars through false court proceedings and “legal” fees, Univisión reported on Monday.

A survey published this week has shown that the vast majority of “refugees” living in Sweden have vacationed in the country they fled from — though hardly any wish to ever return permanently.

A Swiss court has ruled in favour of a Moroccan woman having her Swiss passport stripped after she separated from her local husband just months after getting it and remarried a Lebanese man shortly after their divorce.

Six migrant men from the Ivory Coast have all claimed to be the father of one child in the northern French department of Manche in order that they would each be able to claim residency in France. The court of

A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, official appointed by Democrat Mayor Jim Kenney was charged with fraudulently obtaining American citizenship via marriage fraud and stealing $15,000 through bank embezzlement, federal prosecutors allege. 

The French department of Côte-d’Or has revealed that of the over 500 migrants claiming to be minors who arrived at the department in 2019, just 20 per cent of them were actually underage. The department, which contains the city of Dijon,

The United States has been the victim of immigration fraud by aliens falsely claiming to be someone they are not, as well as by aliens falsely claiming to be related to someone they are not. 

Three immigration and civil judges are among nine people due to appear in court charged with an alleged £12.6 million bogus legal aid scam.

A group of protesters — including several Jews and Israel supporters — stood outside Oakland, California-based Reem’s Arab Street Corner Bakery on Sunday to demand that a mural honoring convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh be removed from its wall. “In

The Department of Justice announced that Indiana immigration lawyer Joel Paul pleaded guilty to extensive fraud in his U-visa practice Thursday.

A former North Texas school district administrator who admitted to falsifying documents and receiving kickbacks in an H-1B teacher recruitment scheme was sentenced Monday to spend two years in federal prison and repay the school district more than $300,000 in restitution.

The Palestinian-Syrian owner of Reem’s Arab Street Corner Bakery in Oakland, California, has a huge mural of convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh emblazoned in neon colors on its wall.

A former north Texas school district administrator pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday, admitting to his role in an H-1B teacher recruitment scheme for which he falsified documents and received kickbacks, also impacting the lives of hundreds of foreign teachers who believed they were working legally in the United States.

Convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh entered a guilty plea Tuesday and will soon face deportation for lying on her immigration papers to United States authorities about her 1970 convictions in Israel stemming from two deadly bombings.

A California woman and her father have been sentenced to federal prison for hooking up foreign nationals with U.S. citizens for thousands of dollars. They were convicted of visa and marriage fraud for taking up to $50,000 from Chinese nationals for “arranging” marriages. The foreign nationals hoped to get permanent resident status.

Immigration fraudster Jason Shiao was sentenced on Monday to two years in federal prison for posing as an attorney as part of a fraud scheme to match at least 87 foreign nationals, mostly citizens of China, seeking legal permanent resident status through arranged, fraudulent marriages to U.S. citizens.

JACKSON, Mississippi – Two immigrants from India and 17 others are facing federal charges after hatching a scheme to fraudulently bring more residents from India through a marriage scam that would grant them legal status.

An immigration activist the Obama White House once honored as a “Champion of Change” embodying “the spirit of Cesar Chavez’s legacy” has been sentenced to probation for her role in deceiving immigration authorities on behalf of a foreign national.

A San Antonio woman pleaded guilty to federal charges involving a cash for green card scheme. The woman now faces up to 20 years in prison for each of the 8 counts in the case.

Federal officials accuse 21 individuals of allegedly participating in a “pay to stay” scheme in which they conspired with more than a thousand foreign nationals to fraudulently remain and work in the U.S. by posing as students.

A U.S. appellate court on Thursday vacated the conviction of a Palestinian activist charged with immigration fraud for failing to tell U.S. authorities she had been imprisoned in Israel for a 1969 supermarket bombing that killed two people. Rasmieh Yousef

The abuse of a popular visa program intended to allow foreigners to come to the U.S. for educational exchange purposes is a “sidelight” to the San Bernardino terrorist attacks that shows additional dysfunction in the nation’s immigration system, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The immigration program for wealthy investors — the Employment-Based Fifth Preference Immigrant Investor Program or EB-5 — is vulnerable to fraud, new a Government Accountability Office report reveals.

German police have seized 63,000 illegals so far this year and believe at least a further 45,000 have slipped the net completely, as mass migration and people smuggling gangs take their toll. Most of the refugees and illegals now arriving

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) is demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security as hundreds of illegal immigrants in Queens, New York are using family court to get on a special path to a green card.