A pair of crooks, based in New York and operating in Massachusetts and elsewhere, have created the ultimate in visa fraud - they staged fake robberies of genuine retail establishments so that the clerks who were "Robbed" could file for victim status and U nonimmigrant visas, and ultimately for green cards.
In short, they engaged in one street crime to create another crime, a fraudulent claim for a U Visa.
The U visa, for crime victims, makes little sense to me as a matter of public policy, and it has been over-used, to put it mildly.
There is a limit of 10,000 a year to these visas being used to create green cards for victims and thousands more visas are handed out to family members and some even go to people who merely witnessed the crimes.
A DHS report of four years ago showed 140,000 people wait-listed for green cards as victims.
If you have a U-1 nonimmigrant visa you are legally here until your green card comes through.
What Patel and Singh did was, among other things, to add to the growing visa backlog.
https://cis.org/North/It-Had-Happen-Robberies-Were-Faked-Create-Real-Visas-Crime-Victims
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