Our company is being taken over by another company and everyone needs to fill out a new job application, drug test, background check, etc. My coworker has been working there since 2018. She is from a Middle East country (2014) and had a valid green card up until last year when it expired.
In 2015, she associated with a group that had an in home healthcare company. They would bill Medicade for services that were not performed. The lady that she was supposedly taking care of would travel a lot, and would pay my coworker an amount to keep her mouth shut. The whole group got busted and my coworker got a felony charge reduced to misdemeanor, got 5 years probation, and had to pay a fine of $60,000. The immigration courts never got wind of this, so she's kind of under the radar. But, it is considered fraud against the government and she was advised by immigration lawyers to lay low and not to try and get her green card renewed, until 2035!
Next week she will find out if the new company will hire her without a valid green card. Probably not. What is she supposed to do? She needs a green card to legally work, but is being advised to continue to lay low and not renew it. She is an excellent employee and I feel so bad for her. BTW, she has a paralyzed, (waist down) husband and an 8 year old and 10 year old. She wants to put all of this behind her and get her U.S. citizenship. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
In 2015, she associated with a group that had an in home healthcare company. They would bill Medicade for services that were not performed. The lady that she was supposedly taking care of would travel a lot, and would pay my coworker an amount to keep her mouth shut. The whole group got busted and my coworker got a felony charge reduced to misdemeanor, got 5 years probation, and had to pay a fine of $60,000. The immigration courts never got wind of this, so she's kind of under the radar. But, it is considered fraud against the government and she was advised by immigration lawyers to lay low and not to try and get her green card renewed, until 2035!
Next week she will find out if the new company will hire her without a valid green card. Probably not. What is she supposed to do? She needs a green card to legally work, but is being advised to continue to lay low and not renew it. She is an excellent employee and I feel so bad for her. BTW, she has a paralyzed, (waist down) husband and an 8 year old and 10 year old. She wants to put all of this behind her and get her U.S. citizenship. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
