Woman admits guilt in immigration document fraud

A woman with a prior conviction for marriage fraud has pleaded guilty in federal court, this time for submitting fraudulent immigration document and making false statement to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Delora Taman Bhuiyan pleaded guilty Thursday to a count of immigration document fraud as part of a plea deal with the U.S. government. She will be sentenced on April 13, 2012 at 9am.

U.S. District Court for the NMI visiting judge David O. Carter directed the U.S. Probation Office to submit a presentence investigation report by March 8, 2012.

Assistant U.S. attorney Beverly McCallum represented the U.S. government in the case. Bhuiyan appeared with her court-appointed counsel, Bruce Berline

Federal agents arrested Delora Bhuiyan and Mohammed Shoukat Bhuiyan after an indictment was filed in the district court. The indictment charged Delora Bhuiyan with two counts of immigration document fraud and a count of false statement. It also charged Mohammed Bhuiyan with a count of immigration document fraud.

According to court papers, Delora Bhuiyan is also known as Delora Taman Hossuin, Delora Gang, Delora Meliong Itaman and Delora Meliong Taman.

According to the indictment, on March 30, 2009, Delora Bhuiyan, in response to questioning about her place of residence by a USCIS officer, stated that she lives in Susupe, Saipan. Delora Bhuiyan also claimed only one husband, Mohammed Shoukat Bhuiyan.

But, according to the indictment, Delora Bhuiyan in fact lived in China Town, Saipan, with someone other than her husband Mohammed Bhuiyan. On that date, March 30, 2009, Delora Bhuiyan was in fact married to both Mohammed Bhuiyan and Zheng Gang.

The two statements were material to USCIS’s determination of Mohammed Bhuiyan’s application for lawful permanent resident status.

On Feb. 2, 2011, Delora Bhuiyan allegedly gave a false statement to a Homeland Security Investigations special agent that she had lived with her husband Mohammed Bhuiyan in Susupe for the past two years.

Prior to that, in November 2009, the Office of the Attorney General’s Investigative Unit arrested Delora Bhuiyan for engaging in a marriage fraud scheme. The OAG investigator learned that Bhuiyan married three alien residents—Mohammed Mokbul Hossuin, Mohammed Bhuiyan, and Zheng Gang—allowing these aliens to obtain Immediate Relative status.

Gang reportedly departed the CNMI in April 2009 and had not returned to the CNMI as of November 2009.

In February 2010, Superior Court associate judge David Wiseman sentenced Delora Bhuiyan to a day in prison for marriage fraud.