Immigration in the USA - how not to fall for the scam

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The United States has been and remains a welcome country for immigrants. However, US immigration law can rightfully be called one of the most confusing in the world, which fraudsters successfully use. At any stage, you may encounter immigration scammers of various sizes who provide deliberately poor quality services, lure large sums of money and even use the personal data of potential immigrants for their own purposes.

Why are they still free, you ask? A simple answer in “3D” format: Voluntarily, Far, Long.

Voluntary: usually large sums of money, and information is given to scammers voluntarily and without supporting documents.

Far away: fraudsters can be out of reach, both physically far, disappearing on another continent, and informationally far, when there is no reliable information about them.

Long: Immigration is a long process and there may be a long wait or correspondence period before suspicion arises. Moreover, the process of bringing to justice will require even more time, effort and additional funds.

The saddest thing is that after the kind “help” of a swindler, you can lose not only money, but also the opportunity to immigrate to the USA in the future.

Therefore, we will be guided by the principle “Warned means armed” and consider the typical cases of fraud, which many have already encountered.

Green Card Lottery

Lottery popularity Green Card attracts not only those who want to try their luck and move overseas, but also numerous scammers.

How do scammers act?

Fraudsters usually use the ignorance and ignorance of the participants' English. Especially often this happens at the stage of filling out forms for participation in the lottery.

You can fill out the questionnaire yourself, following the instructions available to all. But there is another way - to contact intermediaries for help. And they will help you ... to part with 2-5 in thousands of dollars, promising full assistance and support in completing the application and submitting it to the green card lottery. The Internet is replete with sites of intermediaries who are ready to submit a questionnaire for you every year for free or for a fee.

When registering a questionnaire in your name, many intermediaries indicate their email and postal address, and in case of your winnings, all the information is with them in order to “sell” it to you later.

With the seeming absurdity of the situation - to pay for what is presented by the American state for free - every year we are asked for advice by those who fell for rogues.

A real example

The girl came to the United States on a tourist visa, and, while in Los Angeles, turned to us for help. She paid the 2 000 intermediary dollars to fill out her application for the lottery.

After some time, she was informed that she had won, and they asked for more 2 000 dollars to send a letter of winnings with her case number. Case number. After attempts of the girl to persuade the intermediary, she began to be threatened with violence at all.

Many such cases of extortion can be found in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and other CIS countries.

How to avoid cheating?

1. Fill out the form on the official website dvlottery.state.govand not on the site of intermediaries.
2. If suddenly you have already left your information to intermediaries, at a minimum, you should know the Registration Number of the application Registration number or try to find it out on the official lottery website in order to apply for the restoration of the winnings. Also make sure that your email address is indicated in the application.

Political Asylum in the USA

Another field of activity for a large number of swindlers who want to “help” potential immigrants for money is writing cases for applying for political asylum and providing advice to refugees.

It is quite logical, before deciding on serious changes in life, to study the information, to get acquainted with the experience of those who succeeded. Therefore, those who wish to apply for political asylum bit by bit gather information in social networks, on forums, from bloggers and acquaintances. It helps to get a general idea and even answer the question, as it happens.

But it takes a different turn when someone takes the responsibility to advise you or help write a story to get asylum in the United States.

Self-made consultants hand out advice, suggest what to do in a particular situation, but they do not have the necessary qualifications.

As a result, the client is often deceived. The only specialist competent in this area is the immigration lawyer.

Immigration consultants vs lawyers

By agreeing to the services of consulting bloggers or immigration centers that do not have a single licensed immigration lawyer in your staff, you obviously agree to a non-professional approach to your case. If we talk by analogy with medicine, you would hardly have agreed that, if necessary, the surgery was done not by a surgeon, but, say, by the clinic administrator, who heard a lot of stories from surgeons and was even in the operating room a couple of times. You perfectly understand the consequences for your life and health.

But the consequences of an incompetently drawn up case, incorrect actions at the border, and lack of preparation for an interview with a USCIS officer are not only a negative response to the petition, but also the transfer of the case to court, deportation, and a ban on entry into the United States for a long time.

We met the same stories, written by immigration consultants for different clients "by blueprint", as well as promising stories, lit from the wrong side, or vice versa, invented stories that have never been. A lawyer who practices on issues of political asylum will not invent stories because he cares about the ethical and professional side of the case. But, having been at a very large number of court sessions, he knows the specifics of the information that immigration judges need. Consultants have no such practice.

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Real-world examples

One of the latest stories is about a Russian-speaking fraudulent consultant, to whom money was transferred for writing cases, obtaining visas, and changing immigration statuses. The result is dozens of victims with damaged asylum cases. Also, for a tidy sum, he promised to change his status from a B-1 to an EB-1 visa and, in order not to arouse suspicion, sent clients documents where, using Photoshop on behalf of USCIS indicated that the visa application is being processed. At the moment, the crook was gone during the hurricane Irma in Florida, with money, of course. Unfortunately, the money is unlikely to be returned, even if it is sought.

One young man turned to an immigration consultant and received advice: “fly to America and ask for political asylum right in New York”. He had a tourist visa, that is, in fact, he could enter the country, after a while start the process, get a work permit and so on. Asking for asylum at the airport, he immediately went to an immigration prison. This is how one tip crossed out his entire story.

How to avoid cheating?

1. First of all, contact an experienced licensed immigration lawyer.
2. Do not transfer money without documents.

EB-5 Fraud

A separate big topic is fraud under the EB-5 program. Recall that the program allows you to get a green card to investors who have invested at least 500 000 dollars in the US economy and created at least 10 jobs for Americans or permanent residents. One of the important questions of this program: where to invest money? And, of course, there are enough of those who will be happy to use half a million dollars for their purposes. Whole fraudulent funds are organized that collect money from foreign investors to participate in the EB-5 program. The money is not subsequently invested in American companies, but is used for personal purposes, investors are left without a visa.

Unfortunately, it is still possible to list the types and cases of immigration frauds for a long time. But we better wish you that you do not encounter them. If, after all, you are affected by fraudsters, our licensed immigration attorneys can advise you and give you valuable advice.

And finally

And, on the contrary, we are often asked the question: “Do you guarantee getting a visa, green card, political asylum?”.

Our consistent answer: we guarantee that the work will be done efficiently. But the decision will be made at the USCIS Citizenship and Migration Board. If you are guaranteed a positive outcome somewhere, be careful not to fall for the scam!

American Corporate Services, Inc. For more than 26 years, has been assisting with immigration to the United States, obtaining immigration, non-immigrant visas and political asylum in the United States.

Only communicate with Адwoks! Do not discuss your immigration case with intermediaries, paralegals and other unskilled persons.

Contact American Corporate Services, Inc. on all matters of immigration and business in the United States.

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