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The Nigerian, whose original name is Modestus Nwagubwu Ifemembi, got United States citizenship by false name Karl Nwabugwu Odike Ifemembi.
He was arrested in April and is due in court next month.
Ifemembi, a 48-year-old, who previously resided in Aliso Viejo, but relocated to Rockville, Maryland, last year, has worked for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for seven years.
United States Department of Justice (DoJ) in a statement said Ifemembi is charged in the complaint with one count of unlawfully procuring U.S. citizenship. x
But a court document seen by The Guardian on Friday showed that Ifemembi has been charged with unlawful procurement of United States citizenship, making a false statement on a passport application, the use of Certificate of Naturalization procured by fraud, fraud and misuse of an immigration document, false Statements and aggravated identity theft.
AJ Taylor3 weeks agoLast Updated: May 6, 2021
A man who fraudulently obtained asylum and U.S. citizenship was hired by the Obama administration to adjudicate the very immigration petitions and forms on which he repeatedly lied. The case has Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, raising new questions about immigration vetting protocols, the individual’s work at USCIS and USCIS’s response to the serious allegations made in the case.
Modestus Nwagubwu Ifemembi was recently indicted for obtaining American citizenship using a false name, but not before he worked for seven years as an immigration services officer for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. He arrived in the United States in 2000 and was caught with a fake British passport. For reasons that are not clear, he was still granted asylum after giving a fake name. He was granted citizenship in 2011 and hired by USCIS to adjudicate immigration petitions in 2013.
BREAKING NEWS! U.S. govt arrest Nigerian born American fake Department of Homeland Services Immigration officer, MODESTUS NWAGUBWU IFEMEMBI …deceived USCIS to illegally obtain U.S Citizenship under Fake Identity Department of Justice launch full scale investigation into criminal act earlier entered United States on a flight from France to Chicago using a stolen British passport where he altered his own photo under the name ‘Karlos Mourfy’ of Sierra Leone Received asylum, adjust status to lawful permanent resident (green card), applied for U.S. citizenship under another name ‘Karlos Ifemembi’ Suspect facing deportation, to lose citizenship after prison terms BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU/AMERICAN Foreign Bureau Chief
A Nigerian man who entered
this country on a stolen British passport, fraudulently obtained U.S.
citizenship and ended up working as a federal immigration officer has, finally,
landed in court.
Modestus Nwagubwu Ifemembi, 48, faces a single count of “unlawfully procuring U.S. citizenship.” But this bizarre, two-decade-long chain of events raises countless intriguing questions.
First, the background.
Ifemembi entered the U.S. on
a France-to-Chicago flight in 2000. After immigration agents in the Windy City
detained Ifemembi – who admitted to passport fraud – he was granted asylum.
Approval was based on false claims that his name was “Karlos Mourfy” and a