DHS accuses New York attorney of filing copied asylum claims for dozens of Indian clients amid wider immigration crackdown A New York-based Indian-origin immigration lawyer is facing a proposed civil penalty of more than $470,000 (around ₹4 crore) after US authorities accused him of submitting fraudulent asylum applications on behalf of dozens of clients, most of them Indian nationals, as part of an intensified crackdown on immigration fraud. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has alleged that attorney Suraj Raj Singh prepared and filed 118 fraudulent documents across 54 immigration cases, with many applications containing nearly identical narratives, wording