Belizean Woman Found Guilty of Naturalization Fraud

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April
By Kateryna Heyman
A federal jury found Ana Zahia Gonzalez guilty of naturalization fraud after she knowingly submitted a fake divorce decree from Belize as part of her U.S. citizenship application. Gonzalez had entered the United States on a visitor visa in 2006 and overstayed. She later married a U.S. citizen in 2011, without disclosing that she was still legally married to another man in Belize. In her 2016 naturalization application, she falsely claimed that her prior marriage had been legally terminated before her remarriage. As a result of the conviction, Gonzalez faces up to 10 years in federal prison and possible loss of her U.S. citizenship, with sentencing scheduled for July 13. The case was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations with assistance from USCIS and is being prosecuted by federal attorneys.
For more information, please contact the Las Vegas immigration attorney, Darren Heyman.
Kateryna has both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from nationally acclaimed Kyiv National Linguistic University, wherein she focused on multi-lingual translation. She has graduated from California School of Law and got licensed to practice law by the State Bar of California in 2024. Languages spoken: Russian, Ukrainian, German, and English. Federal Area of Practice: immigration.
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