Employment Of Domestic Workers To Be On Agenda For Talks: U.S.

U.S.  Consular officials in four consulates in India are being issued new ID cards specifying the limited immunity which will not protect them from serious offences. This is in line with the restricted immunity given to India’s Consular officials in the U.S.

Khobragade, 39, was arrested on December 12 on charges of making false declarations in a visa application for her maid Sangeeta Richard. She was released on a $250,000 bond.

Subsequent revelations that she was strip searched and lodged in prison with drug addicts and criminals triggered a row between the two sides.

Her lawyer Daniel Arshack said Diplomatic Security Services agent Mark Smith who handled the investigation and arrest of Khobragade on visa fraud charges made a "serious" goof-up in the case as he erred in determining the salary of her domestic help from the paperwork submitted by the Indian diplomat to U.S.  authorities.

Arshack said Smith "erroneously and disastrously" concluded that the amount of $4,500 listed as monthly salary in the DS-160 visa application form submitted by Khobragade was the payment to be made to Richard.

Arshack stated that $4,500 was the monthly base salary of Khobragade and not that of Richard.

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