Alien Charged with False Immigration Documents

Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated today that Sohail Feroz Ali Dossani, a/k/a Sohail Muhammad Jamal, age 28, of Florence, South Carolina, was charged in a federal Indictment with making a false statement in documents required by immigration law, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1546(a). Federal agents allege that Dossani provided different names on documents he filed with immigration authorities following his lawful entry into the country in 1998 with a Pakistan passport. Investigators later located two passports issued in different names, but both bearing Dossani’s picture.

The maximum penalty Dossani could receive is a fine of $250,000.00 and imprisonment for 10 years.

Mr. Wilkins stated that the case was investigated by agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and that he has assigned the case to Assistant United States Attorney William E. Day, II of the Florence office for prosecution.

The United States Attorney stated that all charges in this Indictment are merely accusations and that all defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.