Delhi Police book 3 from Gujarat for visa fraud following complaint from US embassy

However, during the visa interview process, Neha allegedly revealed that she did not attend the college mentioned during the application process. Neither did she receive a BA degree. She also admitted that the bank balance certificate was forged, nor did her father have an account in the bank. She also denied having worked at Morevel and Cadila.

As per the complaint, Neha went on to admit that the forged documents were prepared by two visa agents—Chirag and Mihir Patel—in exchange for Rs 1.5 lakh. It was purportedly decided that the agents would be paid Rs 24.5 lakh more if the visa was approved.

A similar case was detected when Pinkal, another applicant for a non-immigrant visa, allegedly admitted to similar forgery where she had presented a bank balance certificate of Karnavati Cooperative Bank, claiming her father’s bank balance to be at over Rs 51 lakh. Pinkal said the bank certificate was provided by visa agent Chirag Patel in exchange for Rs 2 lakh and that the agent was to be paid Rs 10 lakh more if the visa was issued.

Embassy officials then called Chirag and interviewed him. He revealed that Vision Overseas is owned by his brother Chintankumar Patel, currently in the US, and Mihir Patel. He allegedly admitted that Mihir and Chintankumar had provided forged documents to several other visa applicants.

The complaint sought urgent action by Delhi Police and the Centre, “as such cases of attempts to procure visas based on false documents, false statements and with an intent to overstay in the United States are serious security matters affecting both the United States and India”.