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CANADA - FOREIGN MARRIAGE FRAUD -
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CITIZEN & IMMIGRATION CANADA
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Sometimes loved ones will pull at your purse strings as much as your heart strings. To make Canadians aware of the risks of marriage fraud, a new ad campaign from Citizenship and Immigration Canada is geared at teaching Canadians to protect themselves from it. As one of the campaign’s 30-second TV spots says, “If your new love seems more interested in Canada than in you, you could be a victim of marriage fraud and left on the hook financially for three years.” The Government of Canada, it states, is enforcing new consequences for those guilty of committing this type of fraud.
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IMMIGRATION CANADA WARNS & CAMPAIGNS AGAINST
MARRIAGE FRAUD
Citizenship and Immigration Canada is launching an ad
campaign Wednesday warning Canadians to protect themselves against marriage
fraud. A seven-minute video will
be posted on the department website, featuring the real-life stories of three
Canadians, in silhouettes, whose foreign spouses left them hung out to dry
after coming to Canada.
They include an anglophone woman, who met a Cuban man
in 2002 while vacationing on the island. The couple married in 2005 and the
husband left her on March 24, 2007, shortly after he arrived in
“There are so many people across
A francophone woman met a guy online and received a
marriage proposal after three weeks. He came to
“I have heard stories from victims across the country
that have been left emotionally and financially devastated because of
immigration fraud,” Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said. “The best way to
protect oneself is to become informed.”
Under a new law passed last year, sponsored spouses
must remain in a marriage for two years before they can acquire permanent
resident status or face deportation. They are also banned from sponsoring a new
spouse for five years.
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