I have sponsored my wife to immigrate to Canada and soon after she landed, she abandoned me.

Before sponsoring my wife, I visited the CIC website:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/facts/marriage.asp

"Marriages of conv[en]ience are not allowed under Canada's immigration law. It is illegal to be married simply to immigrate to Canada. Spousal sponsorship is a serious legal commitment." "If a person enters into a marriage of convenience and comes to Canada as an immigrant, enforcement action can be taken. This enforcement action could result in deportation, and is the responsibility of the Canada Border Services Agency."

After sponsoring my wife, and after my wife abandoned me, I contacted Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and I have been told by the representative on the phone that "We are sorry that she has used you to come to Canada; there is nothing that can be done as she has already landed in Canada; she is recognized as a legal immigrant and you have to support her for three years although you might have been abused." What does this mean? Has the government of Canada deceived me? Why is the marriage of convenience "illegal" before the sponsored persons land in Canada and "legal" after they land in Canada? When the sponsorship principle is based on the truthfulness of the relationship between the wife and the husband, why the sponsorship is not void although the relationship has not been genuine?

I am writing to express my deepest concern that there is no marriage commitment in Canada, marriage fraud is legal in Canada, and the Canadian system is victimizing the citizen sponsors by supporting marriages of Convenience with sole purpose of immigrating to Canada. My family and I are victims of the Canadian System that is not enforcing Canadian Immigration Law. I have been told by the RCMP that: my wife is an adult; she is free to decide; there is no such thing as a marriage commitment; there is no support for the sponsor; there are various supports for the sponsored; the sponsor should carry the burden of marriage fraud. Canadian system deceives the sponsor by providing an opportunity to the fraudulent sponsored people to enter Canada and then victimizing the Canadian citizens by supporting those criminals with tax payers' income.

Other countries, namely the United States, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Germany and many others grant periods of conditional establishment to spouses of their nationals. The sponsorship agreement should be void and the sponsored person's visa should be void if there are sufficient evidences proving that the relationship has not been genuine and the sponsored person has married the sponsor only to immigrate to the sponsor's country.

canadamarriagefraud@gmail.com

Sorry But that is correct,You have made her a legal immigrant and you have to support her for the next 3 years.Tough But thats the law,Even your MP will not be able to help you.I have had many people come in asking for help because they have been fooled,But there was nothing we could do,You can sue her for damages.My regrets

Thanks for your comments, Lois Lane, BCguy and rgvinson777.

To Lois Lane: I have provided the information regarding her true intention of marriage to Canada Immigration and Citizenship as well as Canada Border Services Agency. I will provide more information about her on the web if necessary.

To All: You have not answered my questions:
 
1) Is the marriage fraud allowed under Canada's immigration law?

2) Is it allowed before or after sponsorship?

3) The response I received from Border Services Agency confirms the answer “YES” or “NO” to this question?

4) Should the person committing marriage fraud be deported from Canada?

5) Let us now assume that the person I sponsored has truly committed marriage fraud. I have been told that I am on the list, as well as many others who have been victimized by the Canadian law, and the anticipated wait time is about two years. Who is paying for her during this period? Should the tax payers of Canada be penalized for a fraudulent person, who deceived me and the Canadian government, wishing to enjoy free services such as healthcare, English classes, welfare (social assistance)?

6) If your answer is that I should be victimized, why the Canadian government has a law to victimize me (i.e. a Canadian citizen and tax payer) not the fraudulent person?

I appreciate your answers.

hi Canada Marriage Fraud NPO
 can you tell us how old are you and how old is your running bride

i m really confused !!
why she could fraud you and abandoned , you have the right ages , both of you im really sorry for your story

I am sorry I can not answer your question. But I do feel bad for you.  No one deserves to be defrauded. 

I think the Visa offices are so concerned with Men scamming Cdn women, that they do not adequately check the women scamming Cdn Men.  While my husband was waiting for his 1.5hr interrogation, he saw a woman have a 5 minute interview.  We have heard many similar stories on this forum of foreign women being interviewed for only 5 or 10 minutes.  Maybe they aren't being scrutinized enough. 

I think its just perception.  Women have been using men for ages.  How many times have you heard the trophy wives say they use their husbands for their money?  It is everywhere, but since traditionnally that is how it has been in the past, no one seems to think it is fraudulent.

Good luck to you.

I don't think Canada immigration does anything more for women who have been defrauded.  I saw an interivew with one on TV who married a man she was really in love with and he loved her too or so he said.  At least until he got his PR and arrived in Canada, then he told her that she really wasn't his type and went out the door.  Next thing she knows, he's on welfare and she had to pay and next thing after that he's on disability and she has to pay.  She wanted to know what his disability was since she was paying for it, also because she wasn't aware of him having any disabilities and she was told that she did not have the right to know because of his privacy.

Now, I wouldn't want to put a damper on anybody's true love or anything but when do you really know a person?  I'm sure all the people who were defrauded thought they had found true love, instead they were being scammed.

Canada Marriage Fraud NPO, if your situation is real than it is unfortunate.   The marriage commitment of course is between the two people that entered into that commitment.  It either exists or it doesn't for various reasons.   It isn't the government that is going to legislate commitment.

Amongst every unfortunate story there are thousands of happy ones.

I recommend you spend your energy in a positive way.  Healing your heart and moving on. 

Goodluck!

Dear Sir

Canada too, values family, marriage commitment and the the vows you have quoated above.  I highly doubt those are the same vows you used for what you believed was a sacred marriage!

In Canada husband or wife are thankfully free to leave a marriage at any point.   Being married, (and in so being one would assume an adult), each of us are free to make that choice for individual reasons.  It is not up to the government to legislate commitment to a spouse.  I suspect that women in Iran are less likely to leave the marriage for reasons which are too numerous to go through. 

In most cases the vows you quoated are not "lies" as you say.  Let me say this, YOU NEVER DIVORCE THE PERSON YOU MARRY.

I for one am proud and greatful to live in a country where I am free to make my own decisions without fear!

As to the "dog" comment....that is just way too out there and certainly not very Canadian like so I will so no more.

Wishing you the best of luck

 

Canadian Marriage Fraud NPO,
I feel terribly for the situation you are now in. Of course it is not right that this person was able to scam you. Unfortunately, sometimes we spend all our time nurturing the relationship and believing there has been a connection made. That person has made it seem they have no other motive and has said and done all the right things. Then we are put in the position of having to PROVE to Immigration the validity of the relationship. You had to send all that information to them and made THEM believe it was real also. Then they accept that proof of the relationship, you have convinced them.
It should really not be surprising that when you find out she ran off shortly after arriving that their stand would be "but YOU gave your proof to US that your relationship was real". It's not really their problem to reverse their decision after YOU provided all the data to convince Immigration that the relationship was real and took on the burden of sponsorship, including that clause that stated you were responsible for 3 years.

Having said that, I also WOULD like to see a law that would be able to deport people who ran off from their sponsor within a certain time, with evidence that it was desertion and not just an early breakdown in the relationship or due to abuse.  But seeing how terribly slow and deficient the whole system is in the first place, I highly doubt that a law like this could be put into place by a Government that hasn't got a clue.
Just remember to take the high road, it wasn't you who did anything wrong. In time you might be able to forget and move on, but you can always hold your head high knowing you are not the deceiving slimeball who did this to someone else.
take care.

She is a legally landed immigrant now and has a right to health care and education and transportation, as a Canadian citizen who pays taxes I have no problem with that.

YOU met this woman, YOU decided to marry her, YOU agreed to sponsor her, YOU even gave proof that your relationship was real to the government.  YOU spent a lot of time, thousands of dollars and a great deal of effort to convince the government to let her come here.  YOU did all these things to yourself. 

You like to quote the website but skip the parts where they remind YOU of your own personal responsibility...  

You didn't do your duty with respect to this it seems. 

Also when preparing for an overseas marriage you probably had to read the department of external affairs website as well...


If you had married a woman from Canada and she left it would be the same answer as well, a private matter for the divorce courts. 

So now instead of accepting responsibility for your actions you are looking to the government to help.  Help you fix the situation, or even get some sort of revenge for being duped. 

While it is unfortunate and I would not wish it happening to anyone and I think your ex is truly a disgusting human being, you can't expect much sympathy in a forum that is mostly about helping people sponsor their own spouses to come to Canada.  Everyone here is stuck in the middle of the application process that already has many hoops to jump through just to succeed and your inititive may just make things even more difficult in the future. 

You are just on a destructive course of action that has little or no chance to succeed (Trying to change the government when they have already warned you) and is probably not helping your depression and really does not help you.  You might want to reconsider your goals.  Maybe warning people in a similar situation might be something more positive even. 

Are you mad because the government won't revoke your sponsorship and her permanent residency, or are you mad because they won't make her stay with you?  Because your first post is what you can do about her using you, while this one is about how the government is letting her walk out of her committment to you. I can understand your hurt, but to criticize Canada for allowing their citizens freedom of choice, is ridiculous.  The government didn't force you to marry her.  They weren't responsible for her using you nor for your providing the necessary evidence to prove you were in a genuine relationship.  You got taken advantage of, and for that I'm sorry.  However, I highly doubt you'd be criticizing Canada's divorce laws if you had married another Canadian and found out she was cheating on you.  Or she was emotionally abusing you, or you weren't as compatible as you once though, etc.  You talk about other countries having the courts decide whether you can break the oath of marriage?  What do you think about the courts forcing someone to stay with a person that physically and/or emotionally abuses them?  What do you think of a person being forced to stay with someone that cheats on them constantly??  Because a great many of the countries that prohibit divorce are only prohibiting the rights of women.  Many of those same countries allow men to be married to many women, hence no man ever suffers due to that law.  But because you got betrayed, you think our country should be the same? Let others suffer so you don't have too?

And no, the dog population will never be greater than the human population, even if the laws never change because, believe it or not, not everyone looks for and/or finds love outside the country.  The country isn't going to fall apart because a couple thousand people are taken advantage of by foreign loves just as it won't fall apart because a hundreds of thousands are taken advantage of, in a variety of ways, by domestic ones. Such is life, live and Learn!  That is a RIGHT that Canada, unlike some of the countries you listed, allows us. The suppression of ones choice to move on from an unhappy life doesn't make for any happier of a person.