Visa Fraud Worksheet

Preventing abuse of the U.S. visa is vital to accomplishing the Bureau of Consular Affairs’ (CA) top strategic goals to protect our nation’s borders and strengthen our national security. Under my leadership, the Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) has become stronger and more capable to accomplish this goal. In fraud prevention, a failure to share information can exacerbate and increase the severity of a fraud crisis. To enhance my team’s ability to carry out our fraud prevention mission and contribute to CA’s strategic goals, I organized an inclusive workshop that facilitated broad inter-government information sharing on visa fraud trends and anti-fraud techniques. This workshop was the culmination of a months-long coordination effort that I led. Our efforts ultimately brought more than ten foreign missions together, along with four of China’s largest airline operators, and host-government law enforcement and policy officials from across southwest China to coordinate on anti-fraud measures aimed at protecting the integrity of the visa system for the United States and other participant countries. …show more content…
I accomplished this by inviting U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency agents and other U.S. law enforcement agents to network with and explain to participants the close nexus between international crime and travel visas, particularly as it relates to fentanyl opiate proliferation and China. As a direct result of the workshop, my team increased its prescreening accuracy through better identification of malafide brokers and agents that assist visa applicants to engage in illegal work and criminal activity in the United

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