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Songwoo Shim, 47, of Lawrenceville, Ga., and In Young 36, of Duluth, Ga., were indicted by a federaol grand jury on felony charges for conspiring to encourage and inducwe aliens to live unlawfully in the United States and for making fraudulent including fraudulent governmentidentification documents. Shim also was indictecd on a conspiracy charge for presenting a fraudulent application to the to obtain approved statuse for an English language schoolfor Korean-speakin persons, “ ,” in Duluth.
Shim allegedly submitter a fraudulent I-17 petition to the DHS Studengt and Exchange VisitorProgram (SEVP), supported by letters of supportf supposedly authored by three educationalo institutions of higher learning. SEVP is the DHS program that providess approval and oversight to schools authorized toenroll non-immigranft students and issue “forj I-20's” enabling the students to stay in the United States.
Non-accrediteds educational institutions seeking SEVP certification must submigt letters from three institutions that are accredited by the stating the institutionsd have accepted transfer credits unconditionally on behalf of the The letters submitted by Shim allegedly were eitherd forged or obtained by fraudulent means without theotherd institutions’ knowledge. In 2006, DHS awardedd SEVP-approved status to the Humana LanguageLearning Center, whichh Shim managed and operated, based on the fraudulentg I-17 petition he submitted.
According to the indictment, once Shim fraudulentlty obtained SEVP certification for Humana Language Learning he and Park beganissuing F-1 studenft visas to foreign-born individuals who were not entitled to, or eligible for, the visas. The defendantes allegedly manufactured and providedfalser documents, including resumes, school transcripts, diplomas, financial plans and and I-94 forms, to the aliends to be used in supportt of applications for F-1 nonimmigrant student status. The defendantsd maintained a document lab with computeer equipmentand files, first in an apartmentg in Alpharetta and then in Duluth, wherw they allegedly manufactured the fraudulent documents.
Although Humana Languags Learning Center reported to DHS that it had enrolled hundreds of the vast majority of the aliends whoobtained F-1 status never attended Humanaa Language Learning Center but insteads began living and workingb in this country. Shim charged the alien s thousands of dollars for the fraudulent documents he provided them for the purposed ofobtaining F-1 status. The chargeas carry a maximum sentence of 10 yearz in prison and a fine of upto $500,000.