SIX alien workers who submitted fraudulent documents to the Department of Labor and Immigration were ordered to leave the Northern Marianas.
Ming Yu Jin, Zhao Long Jin, Ying Liu, Yan Ping Gu, Liang Yin and Yu Qin Shen were being recruited to work as masseuses by Mei Yu Nam Noah.
Hearing Officer Vicente C. Seman said the department denied their labor applications because their employer’s immigration status was questionable. Noah has been divorced from her American husband.
Seman said the employer also failed to show proof of a valid business license.
Nonetheless, the workers and the employer appealed the denial determination and sought for a transfer relief. In his administrative decision, Seman denied the request of the workers for a transfer relief and ordered them to leave the Northern Marianas.
“The…petitioners, at one time or another, produced and submitted to the director of labor a fraudulent document in their respective non-resident worker’s application that has been submitted to the Division of Labor that justify the denial of transfer relief to any of them,” Seman said.
“Moreover, under their own separate and respective application with his or her prospective employer, they all conspired to defraud the director of labor by submitting false documents to him,” he added.
Ying Liu, according to documents, declared that she worked as a masseuse at Hualing Health Protection Courtyard from Aug. 1993 to 1995. But during this period, she declared in her previous non-resident worker’s affidavit that she was working for a garment company.
Jin was originally hired as waitress, according to her labor records. Seman said she failed to produce documents that she has masseuse work experience.
Yanping used to be a sewing machine operator and has a history of abandoning her employer, documents showed.
“Under the Mei Yu Nan Noah-Yanping Gu non-resident worker’s affidavit, a false notarized certificate of employment was produced and submitted to the Division of Labor in support of the application in that she never work for a health massage parlor,” Seman said.
Shen who used to be a garment worker also submitted “a false Yushan Health Protection Courtyard Notarial Certificate” to support her application as a masseuse.
Zhao, used to be a packer at L&T, according to labor documents. He registered with DOLI limited immunity program on May 27, 1999 and obtained a temporary work authorization.
Seman said Zhao has no experience as a masseuse contrary to his declaration.
Yin was also a packer at L&T when he first set foot on Saipan, documents showed. He left the company and returned to China in 1992. He declared that he learned finger massage at Jiangsu YongJin Recovery Hospital from 1993 to Dec. 1994.
But Seman said: “He was never employed as a masseuse in China. He does not have the necessary masseuse work experience…. Under the application, a false Yangzhong Health Protection Courtyard notarized certificate was produced.”
