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Federal- False Visa

Statute
18 USC 1546. Fraud and misuse of visas, permits, and other documents

(a) Whoever knowingly forges, counterfeits, alters, or falsely makes any immigrant or nonimmigrant visa, permit, border crossing card, alien registration receipt card, or other document prescribed by statute or regulation for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States, or utters, uses, attempts to use, possesses, obtains, accepts, or receives any such visa, permit, border crossing card, alien registration receipt card, or other document prescribed by statute or regulation for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States, knowing it to be forged, counterfeited, altered, or falsely made, or to have been procured by means of any false claim or statement, or to have been otherwise procured by fraud or unlawfully obtained shall be guilty of an offense against the United States

Jury Instruction
The Defendant can be found guilty of that offense only if all of the following facts are proved beyond a reasonable doubt:

  1. That the Defendant knowingly possessed, uttered or used, or attempted to use an immigrant or non-immigrant visa, permit, border crossing card, or alien registration receipt card required for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States, as charged; and
  2. That in so doing the Defendant acted willfully and with knowledge that such immigrant or non-immigrant visa, permit, border crossing card, or alien registration receipt card or other document had been forged, counterfeited, altered, falsely made or had been procured by means of a false claim or statement.
  3. That the offense was committed to facilitate an act of intentional terrorism or to facilitate a drug trafficking crime, as charged.

To “utter or use” a document simply means to exhibit or display it to someone else.

To “facilitate” an act simply means to aid or assist or further the accomplishment of the act.

An “act of international terrorism” means a criminal act dangerous to human life and which appears to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, or influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or to affect the conduct of a government by assassination or kidnapping, and which occurs outside the United States or transcends national boundaries in terms of the means by which it is accomplished, the persons intended to be intimidated or coerced, or the locale in which the perpetrator operates or seeks asylum.

A “drug trafficking crime” means any felony punishable under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 USC 801.