First naturalized citizenship as to part of new immigration review

New York: Baljinder Singh, 43, from Carteret, New Jersey became a naturalized citizen in 2006 after marrying his American wife. But he arrived in the United States in 1991, flying into San Francisco without travel documents or proof of identity, giving his name as Davinder Singh, the Justice Department said. WhileThe Department of Homeland Security and Department of Justice revoked their first naturalized citizenship as part of a new collaborative immigration review effort, Singh failed to appear for his immigration hearing in 1992 and was soon deported.

However according to complaint against Singh filed in US district Court in Newark in September when was ordered deported as after first arrived in state in flight from Hong Kong without single identification proof according to complaint. He returned four weeks later and filed an asylum application. Singh abandoned his asylum application and married a U.S. citizen who filed a visa petition on his behalf. In 2006, he was able to naturalize under the name Baljinder Singh, since been residing in New Jersey. The collaborative initiative is dubbed Operation Janus, and the Justice Department says it has identified approximately 315,000 cases where there were issues with fingerprint data at a central database. Last Friday, a federal judge in New Jersey revoked Singh naturalization, reverting him back to lawful permanent resident under Green Card status, which means that he can be subject to removal proceedings. “I hope this case, and those to follow, send a loud message that attempting to fraudulently obtain US citizenship will not be tolerated,” said US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Francis Cissna, a Trump administration appointee.

The Justice Department said it was the first denaturalization under Operation Janus, a long-running Department of Homeland Security initiative against fraudulent immigration. In many of the cases with missing fingerprint data, the Justice Department says individuals “may have sought to circumvent criminal record and other background checks in the naturalization process. “The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services plans on referring 1,600 more for prosecution.

“The defendant exploited our immigration system and unlawfully secured the ultimate immigration benefit of naturalization, which undermines both the nation’s security and our lawful immigration system,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad Readler of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, “adding civil denaturalization” will continue to be used by the department when applicable.

According to court documents, the Justice Department and USCIS alleges Singh, Parvez Manzoor Khan in Florida, and Rashid Mahmood in Connecticut obtained their naturalized citizenship “by fraud.” On Monday, the US government announced the end of a special protected status for about 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants, which threatens with deportation tens of thousands of well-established families with children born in the United States news as per Washington Examiner.