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### Viewing cable 10VANCOUVER100, CALGARY AND VANCOUVER FRAUD SUMMARY FEBRUARY 2010

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10VANCOUVER100 | 2010-02-23 01:01 | 2011-04-28 00:12 | UNCLASSIFIED | Consulate Vancouver

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    UNCLAS VANCOUVER 000100

    SIPDIS
    DEPT FOR CA/FPP
    DHS FOR CIS/FDNS

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: CVIS KFRD ASEC CPAS CMGT CA
    SUBJECT: CALGARY AND VANCOUVER FRAUD SUMMARY FEBRUARY 2010

    REF: 08 STATE 074840

    ¶1. (U) SUMMARY. There are no significant fraud incidents to report
    for this period.  Note that this report is on behalf of Calgary and
    Vancouver.  End Summary.

    ¶2. (U) COUNTRY CONDITIONS. Vancouver and Calgary are low-fraud
    posts. Malafide travelers find it less difficult to attempt entry
    across the vast land border than apply for a visa.  Vancouver,
    Canada's third largest city, is one of the most affluent and
    culturally diverse cities in North America. Recent immigrants from
    Asian countries including India, China, the Philippines, Korea, and
    Taiwan have flocked to the city in the past decade.  In fact, a
    third of the city is of Chinese origin and Vancouver International
    Airport services daily flights from many Asian capitals.  Eastern
    Europeans and Russians have also moved to Vancouver recently in
    significant numbers. Blaine, Washington, the closest land border,
    is a mere thirty minutes by car from downtown.

    ¶3. (U) Recent economic development and population growth have led
    to a skyrocketing real estate market and major ethnic diversity.
    The migration from abroad has also brought in criminal elements and
    Vancouver is becoming home to an increasing number of ethnic gangs.
    Vancouver has the highest

    density per square mile in the entire country. Foreign immigration
    remains the principal growth factor, reflected in the fact that
    less than half of all residents in the Vancouver area speak English
    at home. The application process for Canadian documents, including
    passports and local birth certificates, is fairly well-controlled.
    Post has not seen cases of fake Canadian permanent resident card,
    which has similar security features to

    the U.S. legal permanent resident card. However, local authorities
    recently acknowledged that counterfeiting is becoming a major
    problem in the province and post has seen cases of individuals
    obtaining British Columbia identification cards when they were not
    entitled to them.

    ¶4. (U) NIV FRAUD. Vancouver and Calgary detected fraud most notably
    in the H1B category.

    ¶5. (U) Although visitor visa (B1/B2) fraud appears less organized
    and less complicated, there continues to be incidences where
    applicants try to cover up prior orders of removal or unlawful
    presence in the U.S. They do so by changing names or other
    identifying information after leaving the U.S. and

    entering Canada either as immigrants or asylum claimants. Usually,
    these applicants have only recently arrived in Canada to seek legal
    status after residing unlawfully in the U.S. for years. They will
    also present brand-new passports to hide their previous travel. If
    IAFIS and IDENT do not catch these applicants, their American
    regional accent or better-than-average English will reveal that
    they have been residing in the U.S. for a long time.

    ¶6. (U) Since Calgary and Vancouver rarely see first-time H1B
    applicants who are not landed immigrants in Canada, there are
    usually no concerns about an applicant's skill or experience.

    ¶7. (U) Most H1B fraud in Vancouver occurs when applicants come to
    renew their H1B visas and the consular officers discover that they
    are actually doing something other than working for their
    Petitioner, or they have not been paid what they should and we
    discover that they are being "benched". Vancouver has seen fewer
    fraudulent H1B cases in this reporting period than in previous
    periods. Since Vancouver started scrutinizing H1B cases more
    heavily in 2008, post appears not to be targeted as being an "easy"
    place to apply for H1B visas anymore.  Post regularly requests
    additional documentation, such as earnings and leave documents,
    monthly bank statements, unemployment wage reports, and pay records
    of applicants that have not earned the correct year-to-date
    salaries.

    ¶8. (U) Calgary has continued to work aggressively in the last

    reporting period to identify possible H1-B fraud based on the
    information that was promulgated by Toronto in 09 Toronto 000193.
    Using the tools provided, Calgary has looked more effectively at
    possible "benching" of applicants and has been able to better
    respond to adverse PIMS reports prepared by Kentucky Consular
    Center's (KCC) FPU.  In these cases we have not developed any
    clear-cut instances of fraud, but have been able to ask additional
    questions to resolve inconsistencies and have hopefully avoided
    visa shopping within the mission and applicants coming to Calgary
    expecting a less thorough review of the applications. In addition,
    the Local Fraud Investigator from Vancouver made a trip to Calgary
    in January 2010 and shared H1B investigation methods used in
    Vancouver. The Fraud Investigator was able to see what kind of
    cases are appearing in Calgary and is now better able to assist
    Calgary remotely.

    ¶9. (U) Vancouver sees occasional fraud in treaty investor and
    trader visa categories. Sometimes the fraud involves the
    concealment of criminal ineligibilities that are usually revealed
    in secondary inspection at the border when a CBP officer accesses
    the applicant's Canadian criminal record. Other times, it appears
    that the applicant is filing for an E visa so that their children
    can attend school in the U.S. These applicants tend to be recently
    naturalized Canadian citizens who are looking to start small
    businesses in the U.S. while their children attend high school or
    college there. They are generally refused for not meeting the
    marginality requirement. Post has seen E applicants who were former
    asylum seekers in the U.S. who buy a small business in the U.S.
    upon becoming a Canadian citizen after three years of permanent
    residency in Canada.

    ¶10. (U) Vancouver continues to monitor international student
    applicants for possible fraud. Post conducted a validation study in
    the last year for Mexicans who are on student status in Canada. The
    results of the study seem to indicate that these students tend to
    abide by the terms of their B1/B2 visas.

    ¶11. (U) IV FRAUD. Vancouver does not process immigrant visas but
    does accept "clearly approvable" I-130 petitions. Post processes K
    visas for applicants who are resident in the consular district.
    K-visa applications are generally good with a few
    immigration-purposes only cases.

    ¶12. (U) DV FRAUD. Calgary and Vancouver do not process DV visas.

    ¶13. (U) ACS AND PASSPORT FRAUD. As border controls strengthen and
    visa applicants are more rigorously screened, post believes
    attempted ACS and passport fraud will increase. One ACS fraud
    scenario involves the creation of a false identity. Historically,
    Canada has been a haven to Americans wishing to escape US
    authorities. Consequently, the ACS Unit encounters several people
    each year with outstanding warrants in the United States. New
    Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) passport requirements
    for all travelers, as well as the fact that Citizenship &
    Immigration Canada is now requiring Canadian permanent residents to
    have a valid passport, means American fugitives, as well as others
    seeking to cut ties with U.S., may try to assume false identities
    in order to obtain national identification at the Consulate.

    ¶14. (U) Vancouver's FPM was informed by the 2010 Olympic Joint
    Operations Center Supervisor of a possible U.S. passport fraud case
    in British Columbia.  Diplomatic Security in Bellingham was
    informed by RCMP that a suspicious package was received at the
    Burnaby, British Columbia UPS office. The UPS account had been
    opened by a male with a U.S. passport and a Nevada driver's
    license, which are presumably fraudulent. The package contained
    solar panels. The passport number provided to FPU belongs to a
    female from Ohio. We will continue to gather details from the
    Vancouver Police Department investigation.

    ¶15.  (U) In most of Calgary's ACS fraud cases, they have worked
    directly with the appropriate domestic FPMs and CA to help resolve
    questions. In fact, most potential cases have proven to be fairly
    easily resolved.  As an example, Calgary has had several cases
    where applicants have denied having any previous lost or stolen

    passports or even any previously issued passports, but name checks
    revealed these claims to be incorrect.  Similarly, many of
    Calgary's fraud cases dealt with suspicions about possibly
    questionable birth certificates.  In all of these cases, the birth
    certificates were satisfactorily verified.

    16 (U) Vancouver reported in last period's fraud summary about an
    American citizen resident on Vancouver Island who wished to renew
    her passport from 1999, the first ever issued to her, because she
    could not find out what happened to her mail-in renewal application
    in the United States. Post discovered that there is a fraud-hold on
    her case because the ID and social security number of the applicant
    is reported as matching a woman who died in the 1970's. In
    addition, the applicant purporting to be the American citizen
    helped her daughter to get her first American passport in 2000.
    Post was able to get the woman into the Consulate and take her
    fingerprints. RSO sent the fingerprints to Seattle for analysis.
    FPU has been informed that there is no criminal record associated
    with the prints, so it is still unknown who the purported American
    is. DS in Seattle has indicated that they do not intend to pursue a
    case against the woman and post is waiting to hear if another DS
    office will.

    ¶17. (U) Lost and stolen passports are numerous.  Statistics are
    difficult to compile, as many lost/stolen passports are either not
    reported or are returned to authorities other than the Consulate.
    Vancouver has a particular problem regarding stolen passports, as
    it has one of the highest property theft rates of any urban area in
    North America.  More Americans carry passports now due to the WHTI
    requirements, so we expect the number will continue to rise.

    ¶18. (U) The historically open US-Canadian border often makes
    documenting physical presence in the United States difficult, if
    not impossible. Neither side of the border stamps entries in US
    passports. Proof of physical presence is, of course, required for
    transmitting citizenship to Canadian-born children. Within the past
    year, post has detected several individuals fabricating physical
    presence claims in order to meet the time requirements. Some
    applicants apply years after being refused an initial time,
    submitting different data and hoping for a different ruling. For
    this reason, posts very rarely accept affidavits as proof of
    physical presence.

    ¶19. (U) Canadian authorities go to great lengths to conceal
    adoptions on official records to protect individual privacy.
    Biological parent information on birth documents is routinely
    replaced with the details of the adopting parents with no evidence
    that a change ever took place. This makes concealing

    adoptions for the purposes of claiming derivative citizenship
    fairly easy. Post must scrutinize birth documents very carefully
    and always ask to see the "long" birth form, when available.

    ¶20. (U) ADOPTION FRAUD. No fraud to report.

    ¶21. (U) DNA TESTING.  No DNA testing this reporting period.

    ¶22. (U) ASYLUM AND OTHER DHS BENEFITS FRAUD. No fraud to report.

    ¶23. (U) COOPERATION WITH HOST COUNTRY AUTHORITIES. Post enjoys a
    good working relationship with authorities from all levels of the
    host government. They are generally accessible and responsive to
    consular needs.

    ¶24. (U) AREAS OF PARTICULAR CONCERN. Given Vancouver's proximity to
    the U.S. border, there are significant concerns that foreign
    nationals view the region as a transit center for ultimate illegal
    entry into the United States.

    ¶25. (U) Calgary is currently working with the Department on
    reported incidents of internet scammers who are using apparently
    photo-shopped American passports as proof of their identity to
    would-be targets. While these documents do not appear to have been
    used for travel (and most likely only exist in digital form), they
    have been sent to people with whom they have developed contacts
    with over the internet.  After building the relationship, the
    scammer will then ask for money and send the passport image as
    proof of who they are.  In the two most recent cases, it appears
    that the scammers have used the same background template for the
    passport, and digitally substituted different pictures and
    biographic data.  Afraid that something might be amiss, the
    potential victims have sent the passport images to the Consulate
    for verification. Vancouver had one person try and verify a U.S.
    passport due to this kind of scam during this period.

    ¶26. (U) Posts routinely refer cases to CBSA whenever applicants
    reveal information during a visa interview that indicates they
    committed fraud against Canadian immigration authorities.
    Similarly, CBSA counterparts refer cases to post whenever they
    believe the individual has committed fraud against U.S.
    authorities.

    ¶27. (U) STAFFING AND TRAINING. Vancouver and Calgary have part-time
    Fraud Prevention Managers (FPM) who are also NIV line officers.
    Calgary has a locally engaged staff member who serves as Fraud
    Prevention Manager Assistant and Vancouver hired a full-time fraud
    prevention investigator last year. The current investigator started
    work in Vancouver in February 2009 and went to Calgary in January
    2010 to conduct fraud training.
    CHICOLA

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