US deports couple, among three


Sunday, 30 March 2014 - 7:43pm IST

Trio’s passports had crossed their date of expiry


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As many as three people, including a couple, were deported to Ahmedabad from the US, after they were found to have migrated there illegally. Police said all three, two of whom are women, are natives of Mehsana district.

According to the bureau of immigration’s in-charge immigration officer for the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport, Yashwantkumar Chauhan with Sardarnagar police, 62-year-old Raman Patel and his wife Kamu had landed at the city’s international airport by Air India flight AI-031 on Thursday night.

While passing through immigration, the natives of Nichlovaas in Ambliyasan, Mehsana were found to have been travelling with emergency certificates issued in Chicago on March 17.

While Raman had two passports — one Indian issued in September 1998 and another American issued in December 2009, which expired in December 2010 — Kamu’s Indian passport from July 1999 had expired in July 2009.

However, none of their passports had any arrival or departure stamps from either country, nor did either of them have any official visa documentation. This led the authorities to suspect that they had travelled to the US on fake papers, said the police.

Meanwhile, in another application by Chauhan, he stated that in the Etihad Airlines flight, E4-216, which landed at SVPI Airport at dawn on Friday, 51-year-old Kanta Patel was found to be travelling with an emergency certificate.

When questioned by immigration officials, she furnished a passport valid from March 2004 to March 4, 2014. Again, it did not have any arrival or departure stamp nor any visa documentation, giving rise to the suspicion that she had travelled there illegally.

62 year-old Raman Patel and his wife Kamu had landed at the city’s international airport in an Air India flight AI-031 on Thursday night.

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