U.S. starts awareness campaign to check immigration frauds

There were a few cases where the immigration consultants took huge amount of money but didn’t provide any legal services or immigration benefits.

Few of such lawbreakers include a German resident Robert Mejia and a Herndon couple, Kuang Hao Chou and Ling Yu Hsieh.

They either took unreasonably huge money or provided illegal immigration papers to the victims.

Bill Wright, a spokesman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said, “It's becoming pervasive. We're trying to do everything we can to put an end to it.”

Awareness campaign
The campaign to spread awareness among the people regarding the immigration frauds was started last week in Washington. The campaign extended to seven other immigration fraud-prone areas of U.S.

Hoardings, advertisements, e-awareness, and brochures were used as a part of this program.

Not only this, even civil and criminal cases are being filed against such fraudulent consultants. A central database will be used to track the complaints filed regarding such scams.

According to Reid Trautz, director of practice and professionalism for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, “A central database will help bring more of these bloodsuckers to justice.”

Elaine Komis, a spokeswoman, said, “Officials are reaching out to community organizations to assist immigrants in finding low-cost, competent lawyers.”

“As we put bad guys out of business, it is important to encourage legitimate service providers to step in and fill the gap.”

The U.S. immigration office has already hired 50 lawyers to keep a check on the misconduct and fraud related to immigration.