US official made a serious mistake: devyani's lawyer

[egodoc222]

New York: Devyani Khobragade's lawyer today said
US authorities goofed up in the investigation and
arrest of the Indian diplomat on charges of visa
fraud as a federal agent made a "serious" mistake i
reading the paperwork submitted regarding her
domestic help's salary.
Daniel Arshack, Ms Khobragade's lawyer, said Mark
Smith, the Diplomatic Security Services agent
handled the investigation and arrest of Ms
Khobragade and drew up and swore to the accuracy
of the formal complaint in the case.
Mr Smith "simply made an error in reading the
DS-160 form which supported the visa application
for the domestic worker, Sangeeta Richard," Mr
Arshack told PTI.
"He erroneously and disastrously believed that the
USD 4,500 per month salary entry on the form was
Richard's expected salary when, in fact, it was
clearly a reporting of the base salary to be earned
by the employer, Khobragade, in the US," he said.
The lawyer said Ms Khobagrade's base salary figure
of USD 4,500 per month was required and
appropriately reported on the DS-160 form, which is
the online non-immigrant visa application required
to be submitted by those seeking US visas.
It was submitted so that US Embassy officials in
New Delhi could determine that Ms Khobragade
would be earning enough money to afford to pay M
Richard the USD 1,560 per month (9.75$/hour for 4
hours a week) which had been agreed to according
to the contract between two.
"Somebody who messes up on the paperwork and
causes a terrible thing to occur is very, very
serious," Mr Arshack said.
Meanwhile, UN spokeswoman Morana Song
confirmed Ms Khobragade's accreditation to the
United Nations headquarters in New York, saying,
"The United Nations has received notification to
register Ms Khobragade as a member of the
Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations."
"We can confirm that the United Nations has
processed this request as per its standard
procedures," she said.
Ms Khobragade was arrested on December 12 on
charges of making false declarations in a visa
application for her housekeeper. She was released
on a USD 250,000 bond after being charged with
visa fraud.
Subsequent revelations that she was strip-searched
and held with criminals triggered a row between
New Delhi and Washington.

 

[OrionHunter]

US attorney Preet Bharara should now be hung by his Indian American balls from a lamp post in New York's Times Square.

 

[egodoc222]

haha...nw if this case goes to court mr.preet will be ridiculed!
for his overzealous attitude!

 

[Sugarcane]

Devyani Khobragade arrest: US official made serious mistake in reading paperwork, says lawyer

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[egodoc222]

if true its a blunder on part the official... commiting such a simple mistake...almost destroyed US-India diplomatic relations...
pity that Us has no tabs on these departments.

 

[Sashan]

The lawyer is misleading everyone out of ignorance or deliberately and everyone is lapping it up. DS-160 form does not ask for the sponsor's salary(in this case Devyani's salary) but the employee's salary(the maid's salary)


http://www.immihelp.com/visas/sample-ds-160-form-us-visa-application.pdf

Thanks @Developereo for the form.

@Aeronaut @Oscar @Zakii - please merge this into one of the common threads.

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Nice cartoon going on

 

[GURU DUTT]

Nice cartoon going on

well at least we have spine and 'ghairat' to call a spade a spade and give a bold reply to buly super power lolzzz instead of making fun of india on this part have some shame for your genrals who are bizzi in sourcing latest luxury cars and villas inwest for there relatives and happy playing golf , running shadi halls , petrol pumps and bakeries while there country is ruined by curruption , law less ness and injustice and the same super power killing pakistanies in pakistan by drone attacks and there mercenarries (who get away even with multiple murders for so called 'blood money') just think where we satnd and where your nation has come when we were born together ...think

 

[chauvunist]

It's Good U.S has n o cricket Team otherwise India would have refused to Play Cricket with U.S..

 

[armchairPrivate]

This high-paying clerk's lawyer will say anything. You know what lawyers are, they are sleazy. It is their job to be sleazy.

He can say this in public to score some brownie points to earn his keep, but his argument wont hold water in the court of law.

"Somebody who messes up on the paperwork and causes a terrible thing to occur is very, very
serious," Mr Arshack said.

Who is that somebody? Certainly not the police.

India was warned, notified back in September. If it were just a simple mistake, India could have straightened the paperwork with a quick phone call/email/fax/revised document. But it didn't.

Up to now, the US has been very patient with India for obvious reasons. When its patience run out, India will know what SMACK is.

 

[halupridol]

Nice cartoon going on

It's Good U.S has n o cricket Team otherwise India would have refused to Play Cricket with India..

kya baat..........kya baat..