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Federal court frees woman in immigration document fraud
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Posted on Oct 17 2011
The federal court on Friday released on her personal recognizance a woman who was indicted for allegedly committing immigration document fraud.
U.S. District Court for the NMI designated judge David A. Wiseman allowed the temporary release of Rowena Agnes Urumelog considering that the prosecution and the defense counsel had no objections to the U.S. Probation’s recommendation that the defendant be released on condition that she will appear at all proceedings.
Urumelog appeared at the hearing with court-appointed counsel, Mark Hanson.
She has pleaded not guilty to the indictment that charged her with one count of immigration document fraud. Trial will start on Dec. 5, 2011.
According to the indictment filed on Sept. 22, Urumelog filed before the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS Form I-130 (petition for alien relative) during which she replied “no” when asked if she had ever petitioned for Abdullah Al Mamun or another alien. Mamun was applying for lawful permanent resident status.
Urumelog allegedly knew that the response was false in that on Jan. 22, 2003, she filed a Form I-130 (petition for alien relative) for then-husband Md. Jahangir Alam.
