Forgery or false use of passport
United States Code
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- 2026United States v. Babajide Adefusi
- 2026Ademola v. Blanche 5th Cir.
- 2024United States v. Kumar 2d Cir.
- 2024HPIL Holding, Inc. v. Haining Zhang E.D. Mich.
- 2024Adeoso v. United States N.D. Tex.
- 2024Vrancea v. Bowers W.D. Tenn.
- 2023Gonzalez v. United States S.D. Fla.
- 2022Nweme v. United States America S.D. Tex.
- 2022United States v. Agbonifo 5th Cir.
- 2021United States v. Okulaja 5th Cir.
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Whoever falsely makes, forges, counterfeits, mutilates, or alters any passport or instrument purporting to be a passport, with intent that the same may be used; or Whoever willfully and knowingly uses, or attempts to use, or furnishes to another for use any such false, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered passport or instrument purporting to be a passport, or any passport validly issued which has become void by the occurrence of any condition therein prescribed invalidating the same— Shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 25 years (if the offense was committed to facilitate an act of international terrorism (as defined in section 2331 of this title)), 20 years (if the offense was committed to facilitate a drug trafficking crime (as defined in section 929(a) of this title)), 10 years (in the case of the first or second such offense, if the offense was not committed to facilitate such an act of international terrorism or a drug trafficking crime), or 15 years (in the case of any other offense), or both. (Source: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 771; Pub. L. 103–322, title XIII, § 130009(a)(2), title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(I), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2030, 2147; Pub. L. 104–208, div. C, title II, § 211(a)(2), Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–569; Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title IV, § 4002(a)(3), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1806.))