#visa-fraud

#visa-fraud

Federal prosecutors have indicted five individuals in Louisiana, including current and former police chiefs, for a scheme involving bogus police reports that enabled immigrants to apply for U-visas in exchange for money.

"For over two decades, he got away with those lies and lived in the United States with an undeserved clean slate, a luxury that his victims will never have."

Dattapuram and his co-defendants admitted the goal of the scheme was to allow Nanosemantics to obtain visas for job candidates before securing jobs for them.

Weng preyed on the victim's hope for U.S. citizenship, stealing both her dream and over $500,000 through an elaborate impersonation and fraud scheme.