Feds Strip US Citizenship from Somali Diversity Visa Winner Who Obtained Green Cards for Fake Family

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Judge Susan Richard Nelson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota entered an order to cancel the naturalization certificate of Fosia Abdi Adan, 51, who immigrated to the U.S. in 2001 through the diversity visa lottery program.

Adan is alleged to have used her diversity visa to petition for green cards on behalf of a man she falsely claimed was her husband, as well as two of her cousins whom she falsely claimed were her children. The impostors used fake names and were granted family visas, which allowed all four to eventually become American citizens, according to civil complaints.

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Prior to Adan’s denaturalization, the other Somalis involved in the scam were also stripped of their U.S. citizenship. {snip}

Under Sessions, the DOJ has prioritized high-profile civil-denaturalization cases against people who lied about or omitted material facts while applying for citizenship. Prosecutors in February filed a civil complaint to strip U.S. citizenship from a diversity visa-lottery winner who lied about illegally funneling cash to a subject of U.S. sanctions during his naturalization interviews. Later that month, DOJ lawyers filed similar actions against five convicted child molesters who lied about their criminal history during the naturalization process.

DOJ has also brought denaturalization cases against people who lied about terrorism ties and previous deportation orders.

Investigators with the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service first became aware of Adan’s scam in 2010, when Warsarme, her fake husband, sought to bring over his real wife, Yurub Jama Hirad, a Yemeni national he married in 1996. {snip}