Canada Immigration Urged To Curb Marriages Of Convenience By Immigrants

28 Jul 2010

Canada immigration department is taking a serious view of the rising problems of marriages of conveniences. Immigrants enter into marriages of convenience jus to gain legitimacy to enter into Canada leading to an increase in the number of immigrants.

Once any such marriages come into the notice of Canada immigration officials, it could mean a sad ending to an immigrant’s dream of landing into Canada using fraudulent means. Several incidents of fraudulent marriages involving Indo-Canadians have come to the surface.

In an incident, a Canadian resident woman got married to an Indian citizen who got permanent residency after the marriage and did not get back to his wife. As per the Canada immigration laws, the wife will have to pay for three years as she had sponsored him.

It has come to the notice of CIC (Citizenship and Immigration Canada) that few people are misusing the Canada immigration rules for Canada marriage visas in order to get a free ticket to go to Canada and live. Hence, as per the proposed changes in Canada immigration rules, all future marriages-of conveniences would be caught by Canada.