...for asylum, an Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) memorandum recounting an interview conducted with Indrawati's mother, and a memorandum detailing asylum fraud committed by the man who...apparently kept secret her participation in an asylum fraud ring. In 2004, the Department of Justice announced an indictment charging Suherman with asylum fraud. That indictment also charged Hans...laundering. It turned out that Gouw's Chinese Indonesian American Society was a profitable front for massive immigration fraud. Indrawati thus assumed that any problems with her asylum application were...

...application on his behalf. Sekhon, it turned out, was a specialist in the field of false asylum applications; in 2009 he was convicted of asylum fraud for filing more than 1200 false applications. See...News Release, “3 Sacramento attorneys receive lengthy sentences in asylum fraud scheme investigated by ICE HSI,” Immigration & Customs Enforcement (Sept. 24, 2010), http:// www. ice. gov/ news...warnings, that interpreter was convicted as part of Sekhon's asylum-fraud ring and therefore had an incentive to lie about whether he had warned Albu of the consequences of filing a false application...

... : In May 2016, a jury found Robert DeKelaita, a lawyer concentrating his practice in immigration law, guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit asylum fraud and three counts of making...offenses related to asylum fraud. Two superseding indictments followed, the second of which, filed in August 2015, alleged one count of conspiracy to commit asylum fraud, six counts of making false...statements on asylum applications, and one count of conspiracy to commit marriage fraud. After the Court denied DeKelaita's motion to dismiss, the case went to trial on April 19, 2016. At the close of...

...noted that in November 2005 a federal grand jury had indicted her adviser from the organization, Donika Shehu, for conspiracy to commit asylum fraud, asylum fraud, and two counts of mail fraud, J.A. 34...-40, and that in August 2007 Shehu pled guilty to the conspiracy and asylum fraud charges. J.A. 42. The immigration judge denied Marku's motion on the merits on April 23, 2008, J.A. 3-4, and the Board...entered the United States through Laredo, Texas on May 4, 2000, J.A. 9, and filed an application for asylum on September 1, 2000. Pet'r Br. 12; Resp't Br. 3. The former Immigration Nationalization...

...for the Southern District of New York (Lewis A. Kaplan, Judge) convicting her of asylum fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1546(a), making false statements in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1001(a)(2...jury trial, of one count each of: asylum fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1546(a), making false statements in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1001(a)(2) and (3), and aggravated identity theft in violation of.... On September 13, 2018, the Government filed a superseding indictment charging Dumitru with: (1) committing asylum fraud by submitting asylum applications on behalf of...

...naturalization was predicated on her permanent resident status that was obtained through a grant of asylum to her husband, Surjit Singh. Because Mr. Singh's asylum status is invalid and obtained by fraud, I...sum. j. ex. 6 at 2 ¶ d (underlining derivative asylum as the status eligible for adjustment). Claiming to be unaware of Mr. Singh's asylum fraud in 2003, the government erroneously granted Ms. Kaur...governments clear and convincing evidence of Mr. Singh's asylum fraud, I will deny her motion. First, Ms. Kaur claims that her...

...corruption against the department. Prior to August 29, 2013, Chesla was involved in an investigation into possible asylum fraud being committed by defendant and immigration attorney Robert DeKelaita.... Chesla interviewed defendant as part of the investigation into DeKelaita, who was ultimately indicted and convicted of various offenses related to asylum fraud. After learning that defendant had been...that proximately caused death to another person. ¶ 39 B. Admission of Asylum Fraud Evidence...

...USCIS. (Id. ¶¶ 4–17.) Meanwhile, during roughly the same period, Bandrich was indicted, prosecuted, and convicted for participation in a large-scale asylum fraud. (Ex. B to Decl. of Lisa D. Kutlin....) Shortly thereafter, USCIS acted. On November 6, 2017, it terminated Le Chen's asylum status after determining that his original grant of asylum was obtained pursuant to Bandrich's fraud. As a...asylum with the help of an immigration attorney, Vanessa Bandrich. (Id. at 15.) On February 9, 2011, USCIS granted Le Chen asylum status. (Id. ¶ 1.) On March 1, 2011, Le Chen filed I-730...

...); GAO, Asylum: Additional Actions Needed To Assess and Address Fraud Risks 24 (GAO-16-50, Dec. 2015) (GAO Fraud Report); Congressional Budget Office, The Impact of Unauthorized Immigrants on the..., e.g., GAO Fraud Report 32-33 (discussing Operation Fiction Writer, a criminal investigation of attorneys and application preparers who counseled asylum seekers to lie about religious...persecution and forced abortions); Asylum Fraud: Abusing America's Compassion? Hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security of the House Committee on the Judiciary, 113th Cong...

...asylum fraud committed by the man who handled Indrawati's application—violated her right to due process. Third, she argues that the BIA's decision reflects a lack of reasoned consideration...these terms. An application is “fraudulent” if “[t]here is a showing of fraud in the alien's application such that he or she was not eligible for asylum at the time it was granted...secret her participation in an asylum fraud ring. In 2004, the Department of Justice announced an indictment charging Suherman with asylum fraud. That indictment also charged Hans Gouw—Suherman's boss...

...M. WOOD UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Defendant Tenzin Norbu was indicted on March 19, 2024 with one count of conspiracy to commit asylum fraud and make false statements, in...of asylum fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1546(a) and 2. (Indictment, ECF No. 14.) On August 23, 2024...clients seeking asylum in the United States, falsely claiming that these clients were Tibetan and had suffered persecution by Chinese authorities by virtue of being Tibetan. (Gov't Opp'n, at 1-2; Zach...

.... United States, 449 U.S. 490, 505 (1981) (citations omitted). Here, Zhong admitted to asylum and marriage fraud in written statements and in two...."). The district court properly concluded that Zhong's asylum and marriage fraud warranted revoking his citizenship for four reasons. First, the asylum fraud ...8 U.S.C. § 1451(a). The district court based its decision on the facts that Zhong lied in his asylum application, entered into a fraudulent marriage to obtain...

...because it demonstrated the probability of asylum fraud in the firm, Fed. R. Evid. 401, and it was not unfairly prejudicial, United States v. Rizk...supported Jagdip Sekhon's conviction on Count One. Former employees and clients of the firm testified that Jagdip Sekhon's comments reflected an awareness of the ongoing pattern of asylum fraud at the...against the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, by making false statements in connection with an asylum application, in violation of...

...adjudication of these applications, USCIS determined that in seeking asylum, plaintiff had relied upon an interpreter who was convicted as part of a large federal investigation into asylum fraud. The...with an application his wife made in his support, and the separate asylum application of his child. On April 30, 2018, after he had commenced this action, United States Customs and Immigration Services.... On January 7, 2015, just over one year after receiving asylum, plaintiff filed an I-485 application to adjust his status to permanent resident. His wife filed an application on his behalf the same...

...was not denied on the basis that the original preparers pleaded guilty to asylum fraud. Instead, the Board reasonably demanded corroboration in view of the suspect nature of the original application...and Sikh by religion, entered the United States at Blaine, Washington in October 2001 without being admitted or paroled. He applied for, and was granted, asylum in San Francisco in 2002. However, his...asylum status was revoked, see 8 C.F.R. § 208.24(a)(1), when it was discovered that the individuals who prepared his application, Boota...

...about facilitating asylum fraud. J.A. 309, 312; see Reps. Comm., 3 F.4th at 372. The affidavit thus showed "a link between the specified...Assessments and addressed in the declaration. J.A. 310-11. And revealing how asylum officers assessed those sources would facilitate asylum fraud. Id. at 312. Even the plaintiffs' complaint..., CHILDS, and PAN, Circuit Judges. OPINION KATSAS, Circuit Judge: Asylum officers...

...indicating that Bahar lived with a man who had been convicted of asylum fraud, Bahar denied that she lived with him, stating that she lived with a man that she did not know. The IJ reasonably found this...November 5, 2008 order of the BIA affirming the September 11, 2006 decision of Immigration Judge ("IJ") Douglas Schoppert, which denied their application for asylum, withholding of removal, and relief...applicants on her asylum application. When the BIA agrees with the IJ that a petitioner is not credible and, without rejecting any of the IJ's grounds for decision, emphasizes...

...jurisdiction of an asylum officer or a district director if following an interview, the asylum officer determines that there is a showing of fraud in the alien's application such that he or she was.... Our office has obtained evidence that indicates fraud in your application for ...conspiracy to commit fraud. Smajlaj was also charged with asylum fraud based on his involvement in Shandorf's...

...). Although several asylum applicants were also criminally charged and convicted based on their participation in Shandorf's bribery/fraud schem...district director if following an interview, the asylum officer determines that there is a showing of fraud in the alien's application such that he or she was not eligible for asylum at the time it was...authorization issued pursuant hereto, are terminated. Our office has obtained evidence that indicates fraud in your application for asylum such that you were not...

...permanent-resident status. Two years later the Department of Homeland Security began investigating Shojaeddini for asylum fraud and served her and her daughter with separate notices.... Soon thereafter, Shojaeddini came to the United States and sought asylum. On her application Shojaeddini did not disclose that she was a Norwegian citizen or that she had been living there since...1986. She falsely stated that she was married to an Iranian citizen who had been detained and tortured in Iran. In 2001 Shojaeddini and Jahangiri were granted asylum, and in 2006 they received...