Immigration Lawyer Ari Sauer – The Immigration Answer Man
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What if someone used a fake document to apply for a visa for someone else?
QUESTION: A US citizen brother sponsored his sister in India. The file was approved and she went to the consulate for an interview. At the interview the consulate found that the birth certificate for the son was fake and rejected the petition for all three (Mother, father and Son).
What can be done?
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THE IMMIGRATION ANSWER MAN – ARI SAUER:
Providing a fake birth certificate to bring in someone else’s child to the US can make a person inadmissible on two separate grounds: 1) under INA 212(a)(6)(C), for making a misrepresentation by providing the fake document and 2) under INA 212(a)(6)(E), for attempting to smuggle the child into the US. These are both permanent bars.
A waiver of the 212(a)(6)(C) misrepresentation bar requires that the person can show extreme hardship to their US citizen or permanent resident spouse or parent. If the person does not have a US citizen or permanent resident spouse or parent they are not eligible to apply for a waiver.
The waiver for the 212(a)(6)(E) smuggling bar requires that the person can show that the person they attempted to smuggle was their spouse, parent, son or daughter and that the waiver should be granted for humanitarian purposes, to assure family unity, or because it is in the public interest. Also, the waiver for the smuggling bar is only available for those who are applying for an immigrant visa based on a petition filed by their U.S. citizen child, spouse, or parent, or their permanent resident spouse or parent. Someone applying for an immigrant visa based upon a petition filed by their U.S. citizen sibling is not eligible to apply for a waiver of the smuggling bar.
So if the child was in fact not her son and she knowingly provided a fake birth certificate then there might be nothing that can be done to fix the situation. But I would still recommend that they meet with an immigration lawyer to have them review the consulate’s
decision and the facts of the situation to see if there is any way to dispute the consular officer’s determination that the person is inadmissible.
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