The investigation uncovered that some sponsor forms were filled using the names of deceased individuals, while other applications showed signs of repetitive data entries.
According to documents obtained by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a conservative immigration nonprofit, the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) subagency found that “many applications listed the same physical address,” “some 100 addresses were listed on over 19,000 forms,” and “many applications were submitted by the same IP address.”
The internal report further detailed alarming instances of fraud. Storage units were listed as the home addresses for some sponsor applications, while certain phone numbers appeared on thousands of applications. Additionally, almost 3,000 sponsor applications were filled out using fake zip codes, according to FAIR.
DHS’s Response
In response to these alarming findings, a DHS spokesperson stated, “The agency now has review mechanisms in place to detect and prevent fraud and abuse in our immigration processes.”
