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Viewing cable 06NAIROBI5145, QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI

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06NAIROBI5145 2006-12-04 07:58 2011-08-26 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Nairobi
VZCZCXYZ0003
PP RUEHWEB

DE RUEHNR #5145/01 3380758
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 040758Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY NAIROBI
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 5872
INFO RUEHPNH/NVC PORTSMOUTH 0272
RUEHAE/AMEMBASSY ASMARA 4858
RUEHDS/AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA 8973
RUEHLGB/AMEMBASSY KIGALI 4615
RUEHKI/AMEMBASSY KINSHASA 1815
UNCLAS NAIROBI 005145 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR AF/CA 
DEPT FOR CA/FPP 
PASS TO KCC 
PASS TO INL/HSTC 
POSTS FOR FRAUD PREVENTION MANAGERS 
 
E.O. 12958:  N/A 
TAGS: KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
SUBJECT: QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI 
 
REF: A. Aug quarterly report ?? 
B. NAIROBI 2782, C. NAIROBI 2509, D. NAIROBI 1650, E. NAIROBI 817, 
F. NAIROBI 740, G. 05 STATE 205073, H. 05 NAIROBI 4523, I. 05 
NAIROBI 3627 
 
1. (U) Summary.  The following report replies to Ref G reinstitution 
of the quarterly fraud report covering the current condition of 
consular fraud in Kenya, with specific reference to fraud trends in 
non-immigrant visa, immigrant visa, and diversity visa applications 
as well as cases of American Citizen Services, adoption, and 
passport fraud.   Other areas covered include cooperation with the 
host government, and areas of particular concern.  The review 
concludes with an overview of FPU staffing and training. End 
Summary. 
 
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COUNTRY CONDITIONS 
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2. (SBU) Post's fraud environment remains complicated, as outlined 
in Ref E. Post continues to implement anti-fraud measures to combat 
IV and DV fraud.  Relatively large appointment backlogs and ongoing 
short staffing mean that Nairobi continues to look for efficient 
means of fraud prevention.  In the last quarter, Post has seen a 
growth of IV applicants who describe themselves as refugees, 
particularly from Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia.  Post was 
disappointed in DHS' recent series of reaffirmations based on our 
recommended revocations of K1 visas for Eritrean and Ethiopian 
applicants despite one applicant acknowledging that he was assisted 
by a ring and was committing relationship fraud.  Nairobi was 
pleased to intercept a high quality 1998-Model U.S. passport forgery 
similar to those intercepted in the last year at Kenyan immigration 
in the hands of Chinese nationals. 
 
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NIV FRAUD - STUDENT VISA FRAUD AND MYSTERY TWINS 
--------------------------------------------- --- 
 
3. (U) Nairobi continues to see F1 student applicants using recycled 
bank statements from what they describe as distant relatives, and 
continues to catch applicants using CCD text searches.  Post will 
report septel on a validation study performed on all student 
applicants issued in a recent two-year timeframe.  Nairobi believes 
that cost of education is the largest hurdle for Kenyan applicants 
and the main reason for not completing studies in the U.S. 
 
4. (SBU) A/RSO-I is working with Diplomatic Security in Washington 
to develop a case against an "overseas education consultant" with 
offices in the U.S. and Kenya which appears to be complicit in 
sponsorship fraud.  CIs and a recent student applicant have 
confirmed that for a fee of approximately $400, the consultant works 
with local bank officers to temporarily transfer money into 
sponsors' accounts to show sufficient financial support.  A 
U.S.-based CI states that this same organization helps Kenyans who 
are in the U.S. without status to apply for schools for their 
children for a fee of $10,000, which likely includes university 
applications, interview coaching, and inflation of sponsor bank 
statements.  The fraud unit will continue to work with Post's 
A/RSO-I to build a case against the agency. 
 
5. (U) Post saw recent success with a Facial Recognition hit which 
uncovered a Kenyan applicant who had applied under a separate 
identity before Post implemented the fingerprinting requirement 
(case number 20062482560001).  The applicant made elaborate claims 
that the person pictured was her sister, but to date has not been 
able to produce her sibling who looks identical to the applicant but 
was born on a different day.  Fraudulently-obtained birth 
certificates and national identity cards easily allow applicants to 
procure genuine Kenyan passports and other official documents under 
assumed identities.  Adjudicating officers exercise extreme caution 
in all NIV applications involving minors, as we very frequently find 
that at least one parent who is currently in the U.S. has been 
replaced by an imposter in an effort to lead adjudicators into 
believing that both parents are present in Kenya. 
 
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IV FRAUD - SOMALIS' TRUE IDENTITIES UNKNOWN 
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6. (U) IV relationship fraud remains high, particularly in K1, K3, 
and IR1 petitions.  Unfortunately, given several recent 
reaffirmations by DHS of Post's recommended revocations, Post is not 
convinced that it can provide sufficient evidence of fraud in many 
of these cases.  Post has had success with CCD report IVIS Case By 
Petitioner.  Nairobi discovered that one petitioner had 
simultaneously petitioned for two spouses, and Post is now 
considering pre-screening applicants with this report.  Nairobi is 
also using Lexus-Nexus searches to build evidence against alleged 
 
spouse relationships in which the petitioner appears to be divorced 
only on paper in the U.S, and continues to share a life with a 
U.S.-based spouse while simultaneously petitioning for a second 
partner. 
 
7. (SBU) Post remains deeply concerned that for most Somali 
applicants, their true identity remains unknown throughout the 
immigration process. Until recently, Nairobi has counseled IV 
applicants who are undocumented Somalis resident in Kenya to seek 
registration as aliens in Kenya so they can obtain genuine Police 
Certificates of Good Conduct (PCGC), in order to complete their 
applications.  Somalis' unwillingness to become documented in Kenya 
and in turn their inability to seek genuine PCGCs has halted nearly 
80 pending IV cases.  Washington recommended that Post seek a 
reasonable alternative to the PCGC, and after much consideration and 
deliberation, Nairobi has decided to seek affidavits of good conduct 
in lieu of PCGCs issued by the Kenyan government in cases where the 
applicants have experienced undue hardship in attempting to procure 
a genuine PCGC. 
 
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DV FRAUD - GHOST MARRIAGE, NEXT GENERATION 
------------------------------------------ 
 
8.  (U) Diversity Visa fraud rings in Kenya (Ref C) appear to have 
learned a lot from Nairobi's crackdown on fraudulent relationships 
in the 2006 DV season.  A recent case involved a "pop-up spouse" who 
had previously been added to a fraudulent 2003 DV case.  The 
applicant is now newly-married to a new DV winner.  He appears to 
have been better prepared this time around, and has included proof 
of a joint bank account, joint health insurance, and other 
documentary evidence of a relationship.  Post believes that 
fraudulent 2007 DV applicants will no longer claim years of 
relationship with no accompanying proof, but instead attempt to 
prove a shorter timeline to avoid having to produce relationship 
proof. 
 
9.  (U) Recently, one of Nairobi's consular officers met with a 
Nairobi-based NGO that has a grant to administer secondary school 
examinations and provide certificates to a significant portion of 
Somali graduates.  Review of documents provided by Somali DV winners 
to prove high school equivalency indicated that the vast majority of 
Somali secondary school examination certificates presented to us are 
fraudulent.  In the 2006 DV season, Post noticed that Somalia 
applicants attempted to commit look-alike identity fraud with the 
greatest frequency, submitting documentation from other applicants, 
and building their paper-based identity to resemble the winner.  In 
one case, both the applicant and the imposter in the same DV case 
arrived for interviews on the same day. 
 
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ACS and PASSPORT FRAUD - HIGH QUALITY FORGERY 
--------------------------------------------- 
 
10. (U) A U.S. passport recently recovered by an attentive 
housekeeper at a Nairobi hotel turned out to be a high quality 
biographic page (and possibly endpage) forgeries inserted into an 
otherwise genuine document, similar to ICE Forensic Document Lab 
Alert No. 2005A-62 of May 2005.  The stolen passport's biographic 
page and laminate had been completely reprinted to a very high 
standard.  Telltale signs of the 1998 Model passport biographic page 
forgery detected by the CG and confirmed by the A/RSO-I included a 
washed signature line, counterfeit iridescent planchettes hovering 
over the biographic writing, poor incorporation of the edges of the 
photo-digitized image into the surrounding biographic page, and weak 
ultraviolet features.  This passport appears similar in style to 
others intercepted recently by immigration authorities in Nairobi, 
suggesting that Nairobi is still a major transit point for smuggling 
Chinese nationals. 
 
11. (SBU) Nairobi scrutinizes cases in which Somali-Americans 
attempt to register children born in the region as their own.  From 
2001 to date, Post has recorded 29 CRBA cases, largely involving 
ethnic Somali applicants, in which the applicants have not complied 
with our requests for DNA testing to confirm parenthood, leading us 
to believe that these cases involve false claims of citizenship. 
Nairobi recognizes that most imposters will try to avoid the 
consular section completely, and as such A/RSO-I has worked 
extensively with airline and airport authorities throughout the 
region to catch "look-alike" fraud, which is also often perpetrated 
by Somali nationals attempting to smuggle Somali children to the 
U.S.  Nairobi expects that this trend will continue to increase due 
to growing instability and violence within Somalia. 
 
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ADOPTION FRAUD ALLEGATIONS 
-------------------------- 
 
12. (U) A/RSO-I is working with DHS to investigate a CI's allegation 
that Kenyan officials are demanding kickbacks in order to process 
adoptions.  While corruption may be an issue, adoptions continue to 
be at a standstill in Kenya, as the government reviews and updates 
Kenyan adoption regulations.  The Kenyan Department of Children's 
Services has suspended all authorization of IR-4 petitions in which 
adoptions are completed by prospective parents in the U.S. 
 
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ASSISTING USCIS 
--------------- 
 
13. (U) Post's fraud unit frequently acts as a resource for domestic 
USCIS investigators attempting to verify documents for Kenyans 
attempting to change status in the U.S.  The majority of document 
verification requests continue to include fraudulent divorce 
decrees.  Nairobi notes with concern that documents "certified" by 
the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), office of State 
Counsel, Legal Division often turn out to be fraudulent.  Post has 
taken the issue up with MFA in an effort to improve the credibility 
of these verifications, but has had no response and witnessed no 
change in the accuracy of the State Counsel's verifications. 
 
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STAFFING AND TRAINING 
--------------------- 
 
14. (U) The FPU unit includes one full-time FSN, Francis Marawoshe, 
and three back-up FSNs with collateral duties.  Due to significant 
staffing shortages in NIV, the fraud unit remains thinly staffed. 
Due to unexpected short staffing among the officers, Post's fraud 
prevention efforts at the officer level have also been diminished. 
The current Fraud Prevention Manager with collateral duties is 
Etienne LeBailly, who received FPM training in December 2005.  Post 
also has an A/RSO-I with collateral duties. 
 
RANNEBERGER