visa fraud

Illegal migrants have been staging robberies at their own shop and restaurant workplaces to get work permits and the life-changing bonanza of green cards and U.S. citizenship.

Indian-born CEOs are closing their firms and fleeing back to India to escape charges of fraud in the annual lotteries for visas to import H-1B foreign contract workers, says a lawyer for many Indian-owned subcontractors and visa workers.

China’s ZTE telecom corporation announced on Wednesday that its five-year probation from a 2017 plea deal for illegally shipping American technology to Iran has ended.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says nearly all Afghans seeking entry to the United States are being approved for resettlement.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped charges against five members of the Chinese military whom federal prosecutors previously accused of lying to obtain visas to get jobs and a doctoral spot at United States universities.

A Swedish Foreign Ministry employee faces prison after being arrested for granting over 100 visas on fraudulent grounds to migrants from Afghanistan.

Reps. Jordan and Reschenthaler are requesting the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), a government watchdog, review to what extent the Chinese Communist Party is abusing the U.S.’s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa Program.

A Chinese national was sentenced to less than a year in prison on Monday for operating a “birth tourism” agency for more than two years in Orange County, California.

The fake University of Farmington, set up by the Department of Homeland Security, that resulted in the arrest of 250 foreign students this year and prompted outrage from leftists, was a concept embraced by the Obama administration, which engaged in similar operations.

An open borders lobbying group, partially funded by billionaire George Soros, says “we need to abolish” the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to protect foreign nationals accused of visa fraud. 

A Korean-born immigration lawyer faces years in jail for allegedly selling green cards and citizenship rights to more than 125 Koreans.

The federal government approved a visa for a national from Saudi Arabia in 2011 who attended an al-Qaeda training camp, the Islamic terrorist organization responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks.

Five companies involved in Vermont’s Jay Peak ski and water park development reached a $225,000 settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Wednesday as part of the ongoing EB-5 “golden visa” fraud case against the development’s owner, according to a report by Law 360.

One of the most important presidential appointments and Senate confirmations is that of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Lee Francis Cissna. On Tuesday, December 12, he took the podium at the White House press briefing and demonstrated why he is a great pick for that important job.

The head of an outsourcing firm that brings in foreign guest workers on the H-1B was convicted of visa fraud.

An Imam in New Haven, Connecticut, is facing deportation after being ordered for removal out of the U.S. for allegedly defrauding a foreign national visa program.

Ghana has been rocked by the shutdown of a fake U.S. embassy run by Ghanaian and Turkish mobsters, which issued phony visas for a decade with the indulgence of corrupt Ghanaian officials.

An Orange County lawyer who represented Chinese birth tourism suspects was sentenced on Monday to 21 months in prison after helping Chinese nationals escape the United States after being designated material witnesses in the case.

A Qatar military official pleaded guilty to visa fraud in connection to falsifying documents to secure the visas for his two domestic servants. His wife pleaded guilty to two counts of misprision of a felony for obtaining the labor and services of these two women by force.

Federal authorities have shut down at least six U.S. schools in recent years over allegations of immigration fraud. The schools often dupe students into believing that they are accredited and collect hefty tuition fees, but provide little if any instructional education.