Possible violations of the following statutes are investigated by the United States Diplomatic Security Service:
- 18 USC 1541 Issuance Without Authority
- 18 USC 1542 False Statement in Application and Use of Passport
- 18 USC 1543 Forgery or False Use of Passport
- 18 USC 1544 Misuse of Passport
- 18 USC 1546 Fraud and Misuse of Visas, Permits, and Other Documents
- 18 USC 371 Conspiracy to Commit Offense or to Defraud the United States
- 18 USC 911 False Claim to Citizenship
- 18 USC 1028 Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Identification Documents and Information
Statutes do not specify that the passport must be a US passport.
Famous quotes containing the words passport and/or fraud:
“It is better to pay court to a queen ... than to worship, as we too often do, some unworthy person whose wealth is his sole passport into society. I believe that a habit of respect is good for the human race.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)
“There exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral character of the government. On the broaching of this question, as general expression of despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we naturally turn for aid and counsel. Will the American government steal? Will it lie? Will it kill?—We ask triumphantly.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)