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On November 19, 2009, at a program titled “2009 Government and Employers: Working Together to Ensure a Legal Workforce,” USCIS’ Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) office’s Chief of Staff, Ronald Atkinson, clarified the three types of employer site visits/inspection programs currently being conducted. The following types of employer site visits/inspections programs are funded through [...]
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), marriage fraud accounts for approximately 37% of illegal immigration. Spouses of both U.S. Citizens and U.S. Permanent Residents are eligible, through slightly different processes with varying time frames, to become U.S. Permanent Residents and eventual citizens.
On October 6, 2009, Sgt. Wesly Farris and Stephen Schneider pleaded guilty [...]
On September 23, 2009, Ms. Maria Refugia Camarillo, a 72-year-old grandmother, was sentenced to serve 44 months in federal prison for operating a marriage fraud ring from 1980s until 2008. Ms. Camarillo had been investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Social Security Administration’s Office of Inspector [...]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Small Business Administration issued a scam alert last week to small businesses, warning them not to respond to letters falsely claiming to have been sent by the SBA asking for bank account information in order to qualify them for federal tax rebates.
The fraudulent letters were sent out with what appears to [...]