Sentences with phrase «of immigration fraud»

It's usually at that point that the Canadian spouse accuses her of immigration fraud or marriage fraud.»

Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, stated that Rosa only became eligible to run for the New York State Assembly as a result of her immigration fraud.

Not exact matches

It will call on the departments of Labor, Justice, Homeland Security and State to take action to crack down on what the official called «fraud and abuse» in the U.S. immigration system to protect American workers.

If CRA finds they have engaged in tax evasion, they will suffer the double whammy of tax evasion and also being stripped of their immigration status or denied citizenship, because of fraud.

The ICNE's mosque here on the South Shore of Boston has been without an imam since 2006, when the last imam was arrested for immigration fraud.

Last fall, a federal immigration judge ordered 15 Iraqi Christians deported from California for immigration fraud — not because they were illegally coached on the tenants of Christianity, like in a New York City fraud ring — but because they had already been granted safe haven in Europe.

EU budget fraud has historically taken a wide range of forms, from Croatian farmers seeking payments for climatically impossible sugar cane cultivation to the channelling of funds for immigration projects to what some have labelled Palestinian terrorist groups.

Through the long dead centre of the debate Brown reduced successive subjects - on homes, on welfare fraud, on immigration - to statistic - laden tirades,» it claimed.

Like it or not, immigration, crime, welfare fraud, the dependency culture, and the politics of identity are much more pressing issues for prospective Tory voters.»

Imposing stricter standards for providers, when coupled with strong enforcement by DCA, ensures that customers do not fall victim to fraud and the unauthorized practice of immigration law.»

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Wednesday released an urgent fraud alert in response to increasing reports of immigration scams, where fake immigration officers are demanding money from individuals in exchange for avoiding deportation.

Mr Brown was initially hostile to the scheme because of its cost but he became an enthusiastic convert, arguing that it would tackle terrorism, organised crime, illegal immigration and identity fraud.

Recently, a report by the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services found widespread fraud in the H - 1B system.

Should the board choose to stand by its charter division staff, the schools would simply appeal to the State Board of Education in Sacramento or the politically appointed Los Angeles County Office of Education, where only last year Magnolia received reversals after the previous LAUSD board rejected three renewals over financial improprieties arising from the chain's ties to an alleged immigration fraud ring run by Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen.

Roberts will sit in Australia's upper house as a member of the far - right One Nation party that wants to ban Muslim immigration and investigate climate scientists for «fraud and corruption».

The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration can revoke previously issued naturalizations, if they were based on fraud.

That could help quantify the problem of immigration legal - services fraud and support her commission's Fight Notario Fraud program's mission of being a resource for advocates.

One potential solution: making victims of immigration legal - services fraud more comfortable coming forward.

In US v. Yang, No. 09 - 1572, the Eighth Circuit affirmed defendant's marriage fraud conviction, holding that the circumstantial evidence was sufficient to justify a reasonable jury's conclusion that defendant knowingly entered into a marriage for the purpose of evading the immigration laws, and that he knowingly entered into an agreement for that purpose.

Representing public and private companies in internal investigations regarding such issues as Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) compliance, premature revenue recognition, federal contract fraud, money laundering, immigration and I - 9 compliance, and employee embezzlement and theft.

During his years in the Southern District of Florida, Reuben represented clients charged with a variety of federal gun, drug, immigration, fraud, and homicide charges.

With their oral testimony often offered as the only evidence to support their claims, and with few Asylum Officers, only 35 Fraud Detection and National Security officers assigned to asylum offices throughout the country, and a mere 316 Immigration Judges already overwhelmed by a backlog of 542,411 cases, it should be no surprise that the credible fear process is uniquely susceptible to fraud.»

Already more susceptible to exploitation by terrorists than the refugee process because applicants are not screened before entering the United States, the credible fear process is particularly vulnerable to fraud, hindering the effectiveness of expedited removal and undermining the immigration enforcement system.

A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies analyzes the fraudulent abuse of the «credible fear» process by aliens seeking to enter or remain in the United States, fraud made possible by weaknesses in the US asylum system, resource constraints, and evidentiary limitations.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada has indicated that the new measures are necessary because of a «rise in global identity fraud» and technological innovations that «make it easy to steal, forge or alter identity documents.»

She handles a broad variety of white collar issues, including false claims, financial fraud, trademark, civil and criminal RICO matters, health care, immigration fraud, bribery, and money laundering.

It seems that she may have been working without authorization, a violation of immigration law (in Canada and the US), which would constitute «visa fraud» (in Canada, «misrepresentation») and lead to an investigation.

From opposite U.S. coasts come disturbingly parallel stories of immigration lawyers allegedly resorting to fraud to win legal residency for untold numbers of undocumented immigrants.

What about being owned by divisions of arms manufacturers, drug cartels looking to launder money, immigration fraud companies?

Metcalf writes: «In a time of porous borders, drug cartels, alien smuggling, human trafficking, immigration fraud, and a still - raging War on Terror, gamed numbers conceal risk to national security and compromise to American neighborhoods.

Additionally, the Vermont Regional Center Program (often held up as the «poster child» for EB - 5) was the subject of a fraud allegation by the SEC and, if the allegations are proved to be correct, will result in both financial loss and loss of immigration status for hundreds of innocent investors.

When biometrics become the baseline for any immigration encounter, identity is protected and the automatic creation of a timeline of immigration encounters reduces fraud and increases efficiencies for legal immigration.

By Inga Andriessen The news recently has been blanketed with accounts of the immigration and CRA frauds making the rounds in the GTA.

Represented a business executive who was indicted on federal immigration fraud charges and obtained a dismissal of the indictment on a motion to dismiss.

Remember, many reputable immigration lawyers refuse to recommend an EB - 5 investment because they don't want to be sued if the investment encounters problems, whether of a normal business variety or because of fraud.

He is committed to stand trial on the remaining counts, except that Count 9 will allege a fraud committed between May 1st and December 24th, 2003, Count 12 will allege a fraud rather than a theft, and Counts 10 and 11 will charge offences contrary to s. 127 and s. 122 (1)(b) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, respectively, rather than the Criminal Code charges that appear in the information.

There are several different types of serious fraud, including tax evasion, identity theft, advance fee fraud, counterfeiting of goods or money, insurance fraud, immigration fraud, and sham marriages.

Our law firm is diverse and offers a multitude of legal services such as corporate commercial law inclusive of business services such as incorporation, franchising & contracts, real estate and property law including litigation and arbitration, family law including divorce or annulments and wills preparation, immigration law for visas and citizenship, labor law end of service and entitlements pursuit, intellectual property law and anti-counterfeiting and enforcement in the UAE, criminal law for fraud, check cases, and theft, or cases of defamation and online defamation.

29 Jason Meisner, «Local immigration lawyer convicted of fraud in winning asylum for Iraqis», Chicago Tribune, May 9, 2016.

Her expertise includes the immigration consequences of criminal convictions; issues affecting immigrant children and mixed families; immigration consultant and consumer fraud; naturalization; family immigration; legal status for immigrant victims of domestic violence through the Violence Against Women Act provisions (VAWA); and trial skills.

Provide direct legal services to crime victims / survivors affected by fraud and / or identity theft, campus sexual assault, hate crimes, immigrant victims with meritorious immigration relief to address the range of civil legal issues that arise from the victimization

A cohort of approximately sixty fellows are placed at nonprofit organizations across the country to provide direct representation to victims of crimes, including human trafficking, fraud / identity theft, campus sexual assault, and hate crime, and immigrant victims of crime with meritorious claims for immigration relief.

Provide direct legal services to immigrant victims with meritorious immigration relief and victims of affected by fraud and / or identity theft in order to address the range of civil legal issues that arise from the victimization

A cohort of approximately 60 Fellows are placed at nonprofit organizations across the country to provide direct representation to victims of crimes, including human trafficking, fraud / identity theft, campus sexual assault, and hate crime, and immigrant victims of crime with meritorious claims for immigration relief, and outreach and education to community partners.

A cohort of approximately sixty fellows are placed at nonprofit organizations across the country to provide direct representation to victims of crimes, including human trafficking, fraud / identity theft, campus sexual assault, and hate crime, and immigrant victims of crime with meritorious claims for immigration relief, and outreach and education to community partners.

Provide direct legal services to human trafficking survivors and crime survivors affected by fraud and / or identity theft, campus sexual assault, hate crimes, immigrant victims with meritorious immigration relief to address the range of civil legal issues that arise from the victimization;

We have both conducted internal investigations regarding and defended clients against, allegations of health care, securities and government contract fraud; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act («FCPA»), Corruption, Money Laundering and Trade Sanctions, Economic Espionage and Trade Secrets, Tax Evasion, Fraud, Asset Forfeiture, Employment and Immigration Issues, Environmental Violations, Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act, and Criminal Antitrust Price Fixing.

Made immediate decisions regarding immigration violations, evidence of smuggling, fraud, terrorism, or other suspect activity; apprehended, searched, detain, or arrested violators of Immigration laws or the civil and crimimmigration violations, evidence of smuggling, fraud, terrorism, or other suspect activity; apprehended, searched, detain, or arrested violators of Immigration laws or the civil and crimImmigration laws or the civil and criminal codes.

Not only is this not seen as alienating (although it often results in the undocumented parent being deported and never seeing her children again), but it is often recast as reprehensible conduct by alien mothers sufficient to constitute immigration fraud and be grounds for an annulment of the marriage.

Things to consider: If buying and selling real estate, being the multifaceted situation that it is, finds itself sometimes even too complex for trained professionals in some situations, requiring the addition of other trained professionals such as lawyers, inspectors, insurance pro's, appraisers, land surveyors, tax specialists, financial planning and estate management people or companies, divorce specialists, grief counsellors, expert witnesses, construction people, builder issues, mortgage fraud professionals, banking backup people, ex pat and non-resident specialists, immigration rules and regs, investment counsellors, to help unravel oddities and eventualities, just imagine the Rubik's cube the journey represents to the average, unrepresented buyer or seller, perhaps even ones in the midst of it while trying to digest a purchase or sale, going through a divorce or dealing with a grieving relative, due to a death in the family, even more especially where English is not that individual's first language.