Washington, DC [US], October 27 (ANI): A Tibetan man has received a prison sentence of over two years for his involvement in a scheme to submit false asylum applications for financial gain, according to a report released on Wednesday by US Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ), as reported by Phayul.

Tenzin Norbu , 56, was sentenced to 27 months in prison and mandated to pay $170,000 in forfeiture for being part of a conspiracy to commit immigration fraud and for making false statements on asylum applications submitted to USCIS .

The sentence was handed down on October 15 by Judge Kimba M. Wood of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, as highlighted by Phayul.

This conviction resulted from a collaborative investigation conducted by USCIS , Homelan

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