Stop Notario Fraud

The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has set up a website to help victims of immigration fraud at www.stopnotariofraud.org. As I mentioned in a previous blog, USCIS Director Alejandro Majorkas has only recently addressed years of complaints by private immigration attorneys, immigration clients and governmental immigration officers about the practice of "notarios", basically unregulated, unlicensed, and often unknowledgeable and unreliable if not outright criminal individuals posing as immigration experts in vulnerable immigrant communities, bilking people out of hundreds of thousands of dollars to apply for immigration benefits they were never eligible for in the first place. The "Stop notario fraud" website provides useful information for victims of this type of fraud, pending more information from USCIS on how exactly they are going to implement the goals of their initiative against notarios.