Published by: Financial Express - January17, 2026
https://www.financialexpress.com/business/investing-abroad-lied-on-green-card-appetite-for-enforcement-has-changed-attorney-warns-old-errors-are-triggering-deportations-4108425/
Quotes and Excerpts from Rajiv in the article:
But there’s another risk that’s gone largely unnoticed: old paperwork mistakes, once thought long behind, are now being revisited. “The appetite for enforcement has changed,” says immigration attorney Rajiv S. Khanna. “The current administration intends to scrutinise applications more aggressively, revisit older cases, and pursue denaturalisation where misrepresentation is discovered.”
What the USCIS law says— and what’s changing now
According to Rajiv S. Khanna, Managing Attorney at Immigration.Com, the USCIS law itself has not changed. What has changed is how aggressively it is being enforced. “To put this in context, the law has been clear for decades,” Khanna explained. “Misrepresentation in immigration applications has always been grounds for denial, revocation, or deportation. What we are seeing now is not a change in the law itself, but a dramatic shift in enforcement priorities and resources directed at these cases,” he told the Financial Express.
But the situation changes when information was deliberately hidden or falsely stated. “Fundamentally, immigration law distinguishes between innocent errors and material misrepresentation. An innocent clerical mistake or misstatement, such as a transposed digit in a date or a misspelled name, is very different from willfully concealing information that would have affected eligibility for the benefit.
The legal standard focuses on whether the misrepresentation was material, meaning it had a natural tendency to influence the government’s decision or close lines of enquiry, and whether it was willful,” Khanna told the Financial Express.
Even naturalised citizens are not fully immune. Many assume that once someone becomes a US citizen, their immigration past no longer matters. That is not entirely true. Khanna explained that even naturalised citizens can lose their citizenship if it is later discovered that they obtained it by hiding key facts.
“Note that the consequences extend beyond green card holders. This is called denaturalisation, and it is not new,” he explained. “The government has always had this authority, though historically it was used sparingly and primarily in egregious cases such as war criminals or individuals who concealed serious criminal histories.”
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