Colorado Springs-Based Immigration Scam Shut Down

The Denver Post reports that an immigration-help services company named "Simply Done Immigration" has been shut down after a settlement with the Colorado Attorney General's Office.

The company represented its staff members as being immigration document experts despite having no legal or immigration training. The company also inferred an affiliation with the U.S. government. In addition, it sold forms which can be obtained for free from government immigration offices or from the website www.uscis.gov. Simply Done Immigration will also be forced to pay $20,000 in consumer restitution.

The Attorney General's office deserves kudos for going after this company and others like it whose scams prey on the immigrant community and cause untold damage to people's lives when sometimes irreversible mistakes are made on immigration filings.

For more information, click on the below links:

-the Denver Post article on "Simply Done Immigration"

-the list of forms available for free from the official United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website

-the USCIS initiative to combat the unauthorized practice of law.

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Phony Immigration Attorney Indicted on Felony Charges

The dangers of those posing as immigration lawyers even though they are unlicensed were again highlighted on Monday in New York. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office indicted a man posing to be an immigration lawyer on charges of Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, Scheme to Defraud in the First Degree, Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree, Unauthorized Practice of Law, and violations of various subsections of the Immigration Assistance Services Law. All too typically, this man defrauded people out of thousands of dollars, promised them green cards which never materialized, and disappeared when they tried to contact him about what had happened with their cases. If he is convicted, he could spend more than 7 years in prison.

For the District Attorney's Press Release, click here.

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