JAMAICAN Sheldon Robinson will be sentenced in the United States on November 23 for making false statements in applying for a US passport.

The sentence date was set last week after Robinson pleaded guilty before US District Court Judge Landya McCafferty in a Concord, New Hampshire court, according to a release on the United States Department of Justice website.

Robinson, who is a repeat offender, faces a statutory penalty of up to five years in prison. He could get up to 12 months in prison.

Robinson was deported to Jamaica in 1997 under the name Patrick Alveranga. He applied for a tourist visa, using Alveranga in 1999, but the application was denied.

In 2000, he obtained a worker visa, with a December 15 expiration date, under the name Sheldon Robinson.

Robinson overstayed his visa and applied for immigration status, but was unsuccessful. During the immigration status proceedings, it was discovered that Robinson was the same person deported under the name Patrick Alveranga name in 1997.

He was granted a voluntary departure and was ordered to depart on or before October 9, 2009. Robinson failed to leave the US and instead applied for a United States passport in June 4, 2011, under a false identity.

He was indicted by a grand jury on March 11, 2015, after agents of the US State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service uncovered the passport fraud.

Last week, Robinson pleaded guilty to wilfully and knowingly making false statements to the State Department in a passport application in order to fraudulently obtain a United States passport.

Robinson will be deported after serving his sentence.