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5 people arrested in California for fraud with student visas

On March 13, federal authorities arrested five defendants associated with a fraudulent scheme whereby Chinese citizens obtained student visas in the United States by hiring people who used fake passports to take an English proficiency test for foreign students.

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The arrests were made in accordance with the indictment, consisting of 26 points, says US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website.

Those arrested are accused of conspiring to use fake passports, using fake documents and stealing personal data under aggravating circumstances. All these actions were part of a scheme in which fraudsters impersonated Chinese citizens who had to take an English as a foreign language (TOEFL) test in order to obtain student visas.

In this case were arrested:

  • 23-year-old Liu Tsai from Woodland Hills, who passed at least five TOEFL exams under other names and lives in the United States on a student visa;
  • 24-year-old Quang Cao from San Francisco, who passed at least four TOEFL exams with false identification;
  • 24-year-old Elric Zhang from Los Angeles, who passed at least five TOEFL exams in this scheme;
  • 24-year-old Mohan Zhang from Cerritos, who passed at least two TOEFL exams under the names of others;
  • 24-year-old Samantha Wang, who passed at least two TOEFL exams in the framework of the scheme.

Шестой обвиняемый по делу — 33-летний Туан Тран, который сдал по меньшей мере один экзамен TOEFL с поддельными документами, удостоверяющим личность, — в настоящее время предположительно проживает на Тайване.

The United States requires that foreign nationals wishing to temporarily enter the United States for higher education receive an F-1 student visa. To obtain a student visa, foreign citizens must first apply for university studies. Training for international students in the United States is part of the Exchange Student Exchange Program (SEVP). Many universities in the US certified by the SEVP standard require that foreign nationals whose first language is not English confirm their knowledge of English by gaining a certain TOEFL score.

When a foreign citizen is sent to a TOEFL test site, the subject must present the original identity document recognized by his country of origin. According to the indictment, all six defendants used fake passports of the Republic of China to impersonate 19 of various Chinese citizens at various TOEFL testing sites in and around Los Angeles.

В обвинительном заключении также утверждается, что Цай оплатил и зарегистрировал 14 китайских граждан для сдачи экзаменов TOEFL в течение 2015-2016 годов. После тестирования Цай оплатил услуги трех других обвиняемых по сдаче тестов — приблизительно 400 долларов за один тест, которые он переводил со своих счетов PayPal и Venmo.

Charges of fraud suggest for each detainee the maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. The charge of using a fake passport entails a maximum term of up to 10 years in prison. Theft of personal data under aggravating circumstances entails a two-year term of imprisonment.

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