WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today launched a new online tip form to
help the public provide the agency with information about immigration fraud.
The new online form, available on the USCIS public website, prompts the form
user for the information that the USCIS’ fraud investigators need to
investigate allegations of immigration benefit fraud or abuse.
“Safeguarding
the integrity of our immigration system is top priority for the Trump
administration and is central to the agency’s mission,” said Joseph Edlow, the
USCIS deputy director for policy. “One way we protect our
immigration system is by making it easy for the public to report
immigration fraud and abuse. This new online tip form makes
fraud reporting more efficient and robust, provides our agency with the
information needed to investigate and address abuse of the system, and will
help assist our federal partners in prosecuting immigration fraud.”
The
new online tip form collects information related to the relevant fraud,
identifies the type of benefit in question and provides space for the form user
to describe the alleged fraud or abuse in additional detail. This online form
streamlines fraud reporting by replacing three email boxes USCIS now uses for
fraud and abuse reporting. The tip form will make the tip process more
effective and efficient. Every day, well-intentioned people try to report
immigration fraud or abuse to us, but our own internal procedures did not allow
for a consistent and timely way to respond. Some of the allegations are true
while others are not, but USCIS needed a better way to collect information and
make an assessment. USCIS will work on tips previously submitted by email to
completion. It is not necessary to resubmit a tip via the online tip form if
you previously submitted it via email. People who submit tips by email after
USCIS closes the email boxes will receive a bounce-back message letting them
know that USCIS has decommissioned the mailbox and giving them a link to the
tip form.
The Fraud Detection and National Security
Directorate (FDNS) mission is to safeguard the integrity of the
nation’s lawful immigration system by leading agency efforts to combat fraud,
detect national security and public safety threats, and maximize law
enforcement and intelligence community partnerships.
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