Kofi Amankwaa, a Ghanaian politician, has been sentenced to 6 years and one month in prison for his involvement in a large-scale immigration fraud scheme. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Amankwaa, a former immigration attorney, filed thousands of fraudulent immigration documents under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), exploiting vulnerable clients and undermining the U.S. immigration system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amankwaa’s scheme, which ran from 2016 to 2023, involved instructing clients to sign false petitions claiming they were victims of abuse by their U.S. citizen children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He would then use these petitions to request advance parole travel documents, enabling his clients to travel abroad and return to the U.S. Amankwaa charged his clients between $3,000 and $6,000 for his services, plus administrative fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As part of his plea deal, Amankwaa agreed to forfeit $13.4 million and pay $16.5 million in restitution to his victims. His license to practice law in New York was suspended in 2023 and later revoked in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ghanaian Politician Kofi Amankwaa Sentenced to 6 Years for Immigration Fraud<\/p>\n
Kofi Amankwaa, a Ghanaian politician, has been sentenced to 6 years and one month in prison for his involvement in a large-scale immigration fraud scheme. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Amankwaa, a former immigration attorney, filed thousands of fraudulent immigration documents under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), exploiting vulnerable clients and undermining the U.S. immigration system.<\/p>\n
Amankwaa’s scheme, which ran from 2016 to 2023, involved instructing clients to sign false petitions claiming they were victims of abuse by their U.S. citizen children. <\/p>\n
He would then use these petitions to request advance parole travel documents, enabling his clients to travel abroad and return to the U.S. Amankwaa charged his clients between $3,000 and $6,000 for his services, plus administrative fees.<\/p>\n
As part of his plea deal, Amankwaa agreed to forfeit $13.4 million and pay $16.5 million in restitution to his victims. His license to practice law in New York was suspended in 2023 and later revoked in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t