Citizenship and Immigration Canada announced that there will be a legal action against people who have obtained permanent residency of Canada through fake marriage. According to the Minister the penalty of abusing our immigration system and act of fraudulent marriage is revocation of status.
In the past there was an option to appeal but now that right has been taken away. No more sob stories, no more pleas for mercy, no more bogus brides and grooms cheating our immigration system. At least for those few who have actually been caught.
According to a citizenship Judge there are many cases of fraudulent marriage among people from Eastern Asian Countries specifically from China.
In recent years fraudulent marriage has been proposed and used by many Chinese foreign students pay over 30000 for the marriage to be arranged by matchmakers who charge for fake wedding. Foreign students have been given permission to study in Canada as a foreigner and are required to pay foreign tuition fees to study in Canada. Due to the fact that through fraudulent marriage they can obtain Permanent Residency therefore they become exempt of paying foreign tuition fee.
Based on the Federal Court decision, “the IAD emphasized that the applicant had knowingly engaged in a scheme to obtain permanent residency by fraud for selfish motives, that this type of scheme strikes at the integrity of the Canadian immigration system, and that persons admitted to Canada in this manner can perpetuate the fraud by sponsoring further foreign nationals.”
One bogus groom ordered deported last year told the IAD that his community didn’t see anything wrong with lying to the nation that’s taken them in. “It is hard to explain to regular people how marriages like this are regarded in the Chinese community. They are so common that no one is even surprised if you openly admit that you came to Canada this way.”
