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Lawyer Slapped With Visa Fraud, ID Theft Charges

Vol 11; No. 03

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‘Community Lifestyle Newspaper’

By Kimmy Blair Street Hype Writer

New York immigration attorney was arrested Feb. 4 on charges of visa fraud, aggravated identity theft and mail fraud related to his clients' immigration applications.

Gnoleba Seri, a licensed immigration attorney working in Manhattan and Brooklyn, is alleged to have engaged in a scheme to use personal information provided by his clients' sponsors for fraudulent purposes. The Southern District U.S. Attorney's office alleged that his scheme occurred between Oct. 2012 and April 2015. Prosecutors allege that Seri received legitimate immigration forms, tax information, pay stubs and W-2 documents from individuals sponsoring his clients, who were apply-

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ing for visas and for legal permanent resident status, and then fraudulently submitted these documents in applications for other clients. Prosecutors said Seri submitted forms "that listed individuals as financial sponsors who had never met the people they were purportedly agreeing to sponsor." The forged forms listed Seri as the preparer. The complaint said an immigration officer interviewed people whose identities and information were used without their permission, and that there were at least 16 victims of the scheme. Seri appeared before Southern District Magistrate Judge James Francis IV. He was released on a $150,000 personal recognizance bond, secured by co-signers. His attorney, Jennifer Willis of the Federal Defenders of New York, declined to comment, and messages left at Seri's office were not immediately returned.

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