Visas: Everywhere You Want to Be
Don’t say you’re surprised:
A United Nations employee was arrested Monday on charges that he and two others used U.N. stationery in a visa fraud scheme, prosecutors said.
Vyacheslav Manokhin, a U.N. employee based in Manhattan, was accused of helping numerous non-U.S. citizens enter the country illegally by providing fraudulent documents so they could obtain visas to attend conferences that either did not exist or which they did not attend.
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Manokhin, 45, was scheduled to appear in court later Monday. The Greenwich, Conn., resident is a Russian citizen.
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In most instances, prosecutors said, the alien was successful in obtaining a visa.
The only surprise would be that there’s not more of this going on at the UN. I try not to be too pessimistic about the UN (it’s hard—but the facts themselves are quite pessimistic enough), but we could erect an electric fence around the entire country and it would all be for naught if we left the little doggie door of the UN unguarded.