The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stated that Jaiprakash Gulvady, a 51-year-old Indian-American man, has pleaded responsible to procuring citizenship or naturalisation unlawfully, misusing proof of citizenship or naturalisation, making false statements in a passport utility, and utilizing a passport secured by false statements.
His plea settlement got here following an investigation by Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI).
Gulvady, who now lives in Florida, faces a most penalty of 10 years in federal jail.
His conviction for unlawfully procuring citizenship or naturalisation will outcome within the computerized revocation of his US citizenship when he’s sentenced.
A sentencing date has not but been set.
In accordance with the plea settlement, Gulvady got here to the US in 2001 on a short lived enterprise visa.
In August 2008, lower than two weeks after divorcing his spouse, a US citizen he had married the 12 months earlier than, he married one other American citizen.
Primarily based on that marriage, he adjusted his immigration standing and have become a lawful everlasting resident in June 2009.
Two months later, in August 2009, he travelled to India for the primary time since his 2001 arrival within the US.
Whereas in India, he married an Indian girl.
On a subsequent go to to India, Gulvady and his Indian partner conceived their first and solely little one, who was born in January 2011.
In August 2013, Gulvady’s marriage to his US citizen spouse was dissolved, ICE stated.
The next 12 months, Gulvady filed an utility for naturalisation and falsely acknowledged that he was not presently married; that he didn’t have any youngsters; and that he had by no means been married to multiple individual on the identical time.
Primarily based on that utility, Gulvady grew to become a naturalised US citizen in August 2014.
Utilizing his fraudulently obtained Certificates of Naturalisation as proof of US citizenship, Gulvady filed an utility for a US passport and falsely omitted his Indian partner, ICE stated.
The Division of State issued Gulvady a US passport, which he then used to re-enter the US on not less than three events, ICE stated.
