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US launching office to identify citizenship cheaters

US launching office to identify citizenship cheaters
US launching office to identify citizenship cheaters

LOS ANGELES โ€” Theย U.S. government agencyย that oversees immigration applications is launching an office that will focus on identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their citizenship and seek to strip them of it.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Directorย L. Francis Cissnaย told The Associated Press in an interview that his agency is hiring several dozen lawyers and immigration officers to review cases of immigrants who were ordered deported and are suspected of using fake identities to later get green cards and citizenship through naturalization.

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Cissnaย said the cases would be referred to theย Department of Justice, whose attorneys could then seek to remove the immigrantsโ€™ citizenship in civil court proceedings. In some cases, government attorneys could bring criminal charges related to fraud.

Until now, the agency has pursued cases as they arose but not through a coordinated effort,ย Cissnaย said. He said he hopes the agencyโ€™s new office in Los Angeles will be running by next year but added that investigating and referring cases for prosecution will likely take longer.

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โ€œWe finally have a process in place to get to the bottom of all these bad cases and start denaturalizing people who should not have been naturalized in the first place,โ€ย Cissnaย said. โ€œWhat weโ€™re looking at, when you boil it all down, is potentially a few thousand cases.โ€

Source-washingtontimes.com

 

US launching office to identify citizenship cheaters

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