Immigration Fraud, Marriage of Convenience, Marriage Fraud and Marriage Scam.

[kellychafik]

Good for you Dancing feather. I fully agree with you 100%. I am the victim of marriage scam and I so wish that there was more information about this before I married. These people that are saying bad stuff about you they dont know you. Your allowed to give advice just like they give advice. Maybe they get so defensive because deep down inside they know it could happend to them. I felt the same way when I was reading the bad comments that people were posting about moroccan men. If they would only realize that we are saying this stuff to help them and not to hurt them. I would not want anyone to go through what I just did and continue to do. Thank God that immigration is actually working with me and helping me to get my husband deported. Only because I have so much evidence.  I wish everyone good luck and good health on this board and anything I post is just to give you an insight of what could happen.

Take Care

[sarita]

Ok so I just had my immigrant husband disappear on me.  He stayed 9 months with me and left when I wasn't home.  No warning, nothing.  I know where he is though and he has called me.  Question is, I think I can prove this was a marriage of convenience to him, he never said we had any problems, said he was happy, never asked me to fix anything between us, i have proof he kept a girlfriend back home all this time, and I have all his emails about the plans to leave.  So if I can prove that MOC was his intent, will that help me get him deported?

I am trying to keep it together but wow is it tough.

[PMM]

Hi

Ok so I just had my immigrant husband disappear on me.  He stayed 9 months with me and left when I wasn't home.  No warning, nothing.  I know where he is though and he has called me.  Question is, I think I can prove this was a marriage of convenience to him, he never said we had any problems, said he was happy, never asked me to fix anything between us, i have proof he kept a girlfriend back home all this time, and I have all his emails about the plans to leave.  So if I can prove that MOC was his intent, will that help me get him deported?

I am trying to keep it together but wow is it tough.

Nope, and now you are still responsible for him for the next 27 months.

PMM

[LCS]

The immigration system SHOULD go one step farther when the sponsor has been duped and the person immigrating had obtained a MOC Another case of the legal system letting down the victim. If the sponsor has the evidence that the person immigrating has lied and withheld facts and information (ie. maintaining a romantic partner in the coutry of origin), they've basically lied on their part of the application. They should have their PR status revoked and deported. But then again we can't even get the system to deport criminals that are landed immigrants. 

[PMM]

Hi

The immigration system SHOULD go one step farther when the sponsor has been duped and the person immigrating had obtained a MOC Another case of the legal system letting down the victim. If the sponsor has the evidence that the person immigrating has lied and withheld facts and information (ie. maintaining a romantic partner in the coutry of origin), they've basically lied on their part of the application. They should have their PR status revoked and deported. But then again we can't even get the system to deport criminals that are landed immigrants. 

Remember CIC/CHC is not your mother, if you enter into a romantic relationship with someone, although love is blind, don't you think that you should at least know something about the person you are marrying and supposedily spending the rest of your life with? 

PMM

[LCS]

My concern is not so much that the sponsor is, unfortunately, responsible. Of course, the sponsor entered into the relationship on their own. But if the sponsor is the key to showing evidence that the con artist did marry for convenience, left that person quickly and was therefore completely DISHONEST AND LIED on their PR application therefore a total misrepresentation of their information to the Federal immigration system, I would LIKE to think our Government has some concern and reluctance to let a dishonest, lying, cheating, scam artist have the damn "PRIVILEDGE" of staying in this country to lie and cheat and con and scam their way through life because they're allowed to stay here. It goes beyond the sponsor, it will affect more people after the sponsor's time of obligation is long since finished. Then that person is amongst us preying on their next unaware target because there is no avenue of tossing these people out of here. 

[scammed101]

Hi, I married a lady from Eastern Europe . She  came to Canada,on a TRV,back in  July /2007. After a WHOLE 41 days of living together, she moved out while I was at work. Many people from her community,Ukrainian, are helping her with legal fees etc. When she arrived, she was 100% a different person. I have been scammed, big time.  I have proof that she was working,in a hotel as a chambermaid. Yet Immigration still granted her a small extension...Canada makes Immigration Laws to cater to Immigrants and NOT Canadians. In Belgium,they have a Gold Diggers Law that eliminates these scammers IMMEDIATELY and returns them to their own country.Now she has a lawyer and they are trying to get spousal support and half of my assets.. Immigration does not like dealing with me , as I have been on their case almost daily and will not let a group of liers,cheaters and scammers try to take over OUR  Country and try to get her to stay here ... I need help, as I am fighting this almost alone..... Scammed101

[LCS]

I think a Gold Digger's Law in Canada is a GREAT idea. Over the years our Goverment has been letting hundreds of thousands of people into this country, following in the steps of England and paying the consequences as they have done with their immigrant problems. There is no defined law for those who have cheated and lied their way into this country either via a relationship scam or faking their refugee statuses, credentials, or any other paperwork that somehow let them slip through the cracks. We should also follow Belgium's example, there should be an avenue for immediate removal of these people and not just for Gold Digger's. Laws that protect Canadian citizens, original or naturalized, not landed immigrants.   

[LCS]

Some new info. I was reading on another site
immigration.ca/blog-loveorresidency.asp

"The Vancouver-based Canadian Marriage Fraud Victim Society (CMFVS), comprised of victims of marriage scams, has been putting pressure on Ottawa to develop a plan that will deter foreign spouses from using Canadians to obtain residency."

Might be some changes in the future.