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WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government is inspecting churches and religious groups to clamp down on fraud in a visa program for religious workers, government officials said Thursday.
The visits are part of an effort by Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, to tighten rules for the religious worker visas after finding fraud in about 33 percent of applications.
The agency said that because of the level of fraud it did not want to wait until proposed rule changes became final to start checking on the religious organizations.
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