Masha Parvis goes to Texas to kidnap her biological daughter, over whom her parental rights had been terminated and who's with a foster family who's gotten a restraining order against Ms. Parvis. Her goal is to kidnap the kid and take her out of the United States forever. To do so, Ms. Parvis need to get the kid a passport, and she does so, by lying on the child's passport application in various ways (e.g.., by saying the kid is severely ill and that Ms. Parvis is still her legal mother, which she's not).
Ms. Parvis gets arrested when she goes to steal the kid. Texas prosecutes her for attempted kidnapping, and the United States thereafter prosecutes her for lying on the passport application.
Her state court sentence for attempting to kidnap the child? Less than two years. Out in one.
Her federal sentence for false statements on a passport application? Three years.
Doesn't it seem like you should (maybe just maybe) get more prison time for trying to kidnap a child than for lying on a passport application?
