False Income Documents

[biglug]

We recently discovered a phony income statement that a employee has presented to the INS for verification of cash deposits/earnings totaling $125,000 cash. This employee (american) has a young wife from the Phillipines and is going through the naturalization process with her.
Is this false verification of monies a serious offense? What are the minimum penalties?
Also, the document was designed on our company letterhead with the name of an officer as the issuer. Are the LLC partners at risk?

[biglug]

We recently discovered a phony income statement that a employee has presented to the INS for verification of cash deposits/earnings totaling $125,000 cash. This employee (american) has a young wife from the Phillipines and is going through the naturalization process with her.
Is this false verification of monies a serious offense? What are the minimum penalties?
Also, the document was designed on our company letterhead with the name of an officer as the issuer. Are the LLC partners at risk?

[silviamka]

The only person who could potentially get in trouble would be the employee himself and his wife. The affidavit of support (form I-864) for which the statement was probably forged has no legal consequences upon your company. The only agency interested in the document is the INS (now called CIS) and all they want to know is that the alien's sponsor makes at least 125% above poverty guidelines (for 2 ppl about 16K annually + about 4K per additional household member/dependent)
It is beyond me why someone would claim such a high amount of money.

If you want to learn more about form I-864 and the regulations concerning the affidavit of support visit the www.uscis.gov website