Indian arrested for holding passport valid for 20 years
Voice of Asia ,Dallas-Jan 30 , 2004
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Dallas – Rayan Babu Yellina,graduated from Deccan College,Hyderabad in 1999 with Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communications and got admission into Southern Illinois University at Carbondale,USA.He has entered USA with legal and valid passportto pursue his dream of higher education and completed his MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering.In May 2003,Mr.Yellina joined “GeoFields” as a Database Application Developer,a Georgia based corporation that involved in software development and consulting work for oil and gas pipeline companies.Rayan went to Mexico on January 8 to change his visa from F-1 to H1-B.He had no problem of either entering Mexico or getting his status change from F1 to H1-B.But while comingg back from Mexico to USA,Homeland Security at E1 Paso verified his passport  and claimed that no country in the world issues 20 year valid passports and acccused him altering the year from 2008 to 2018.