{"id":41222,"date":"2017-12-22T15:21:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T09:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=41222"},"modified":"2017-12-22T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T09:51:07","slug":"indian-american-businesswoman-jailed-visa-fraud-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/top-news-of-the-day\/breaking-news-articles\/indian-american-businesswoman-jailed-visa-fraud-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-American businesswoman jailed for visa fraud in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"tdi_1\" class=\"tdc-row\"><div class=\"vc_row tdi_2  wpb_row td-pb-row\" >\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_2,\r\n                .tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n                    min-height: 0;\r\n                }.tdi_2,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_2 .tdc-columns{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"vc_column tdi_4  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<style scoped>\n\n\/* custom css *\/\n.tdi_4{\r\n                    vertical-align: baseline;\r\n                }.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper,\r\n\t\t\t\t.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    display: block;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .tdc-elements{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: 100%;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper > .vc_row_inner{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}.tdi_4 > .wpb_wrapper{\r\n\t\t\t\t    width: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t    height: auto;\r\n\t\t\t\t}\n<\/style><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper wpb_text_column td_block_wrap td_block_wrap vc_column_text tdi_5  tagdiv-type td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\"  data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_5\" ><div class=\"td-block-title-wrap\"><\/div><div class=\"td-fix-index\"><p>Sridevi Aiyaswamy, a 50-year-old Indian American businesswoman in San Jose, California was on Wednesday (December 20) sentenced to serve a 13-month prison term and additionally asked to pay a fine, by Lucy H Koh, United States District Judge.<\/p>\n<p>The punishment was for her involvement in and executing an<br \/>\nH-1B visa fraud scheme, announced US Attorney Brian J Stretch and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Ryan Spradlin, say reports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41225\" style=\"width: 661px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" td-modal-image wp-image-41225 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/s3apnlivemumbai.s3-website.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com\/IL\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Second-pic7.jpg\" alt=\"The court order pronouncing the sentence to Sridevi Aiyaswamy\" width=\"661\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Second-pic7.jpg 661w, https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Second-pic7-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Second-pic7-498x420.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The court order pronouncing the sentence to Sridevi Aiyaswamy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It has been said that she has pleaded guilty on three counts of visa fraud on July 19, 2017. In addition to the prison term Aiyaswamy has to pay a fine of $10,000, plus a two-year period of supervised release.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Koh ordered the defendant to self-surrender by on February 14, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to her plea agreement, Aiyaswamy admitted that between April 2010 and June 2013 she made numerous false statements and submitted over 25 fraudulent documents to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to obtain H-1B non-immigrant classifications for skilled foreign workers.<\/p>\n<p>On December 3, 2015, a federal grand jury had indicted Aiyaswamy, charging her with 34 counts of visa fraud.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>\u2014India Legal Bureau<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[756],"tags":[4408,1423],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2017\/12\/H1B-Visa.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}