Marriage Fraud

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Hi, I am a female victim of marriage fraud. I sponsored my spouse to come to Canada but he disappeared in 11 days and moved to another province in communication with his known contacts there. He also assaulted me sexually, physically and mentally. He also had pre-marital sexual relations with other girls and fraudulently married me by misrepresenting himself to be a virgin when he was not.

I had reported the matter to CBSA by submitting tip online but nothing was done and they don't provide any update. This fraudster is moving freely and doing multiple jobs in Canada, greedy enough to earn dollars.

I am writing to know if others who faced similar issue of marriage fraud can provide information - whether you were able to deport him/her and how?

Also, Canadian Police does not have any law or authority to arrest the person on the basis of this marriage scam. When will Canada make such a rule to protect the immigrants from these scammers who take advantage of them and sexually harass them?

 

[armoured]

Have you considered reporting to the police?

There is a far greater likelihood of IRCC acting if there is an ongoing case of sexual assault.

Failing that, the greatest difficulty is some kind of direct evidence of the marriage fraud itself.

 

[canuck78]

Hi, I am a female victim of marriage fraud. I sponsored my spouse to come to Canada but he disappeared in 11 days and moved to another province in communication with his known contacts there. He also assaulted me sexually, physically and mentally. He also had pre-marital sexual relations with other girls and fraudulently married me by misrepresenting himself to be a virgin when he was not.

I had reported the matter to CBSA by submitting tip online but nothing was done and they don't provide any update. This fraudster is moving freely and doing multiple jobs in Canada, greedy enough to earn dollars.

I am writing to know if others who faced similar issue of marriage fraud can provide information - whether you were able to deport him/her and how?

Also, Canadian Police does not have any law or authority to arrest the person on the basis of this marriage scam. When will Canada make such a rule to protect the immigrants from these scammers who take advantage of them and sexually harass them?

Misrepresenting your sexual history is not a crime unless you purposely infect someone with a communicable disease. Typically the onus is on the sponsor is to ensure they are in a genuine relationship before sponsoring someone or at least before landing. As already pointed out if a crime was committed you should be calling the police not IRCC or CBSA. Marriage fraud is difficult to prove and it could take years to investigate. It is not a crime like in some country. Make sure to keep any evidence to make your case stronger. If he admits that he never intended to stay in your relationship that would be extremely helpful for your case.

 

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Have you considered reporting to the police?

There is a far greater likelihood of IRCC acting if there is an ongoing case of sexual assault.

Failing that, the greatest difficulty is some kind of direct evidence of the marriage fraud itself.

Yes, I reported sexual assault to the police which is under review.

But the police is not the one who can deport him and revoke his PR.

If anyone who has experienced marriage fraud like this can respond?

 

[define]

Misrepresenting your sexual history is not a crime unless you purposely infect someone with a communicable disease. Typically the onus is on the sponsor is to ensure they are in a genuine relationship before sponsoring someone or at least before landing. As already pointed out if a crime was committed you should be calling the police not IRCC or CBSA. Marriage fraud is difficult to prove and it could take years to investigate. It is not a crime like in some country. Make sure to keep any evidence to make your case stronger. If he admits that he never intended to stay in your relationship that would be extremely helpful for your case.

I have all the evidence about marriage fraud but it appears there's no proper legal reform available for action to be taken against the fraudster.

Hiding past sexual misconduct is a serious matter and an important decision criteria for someone to agree on marrying someone. Misrepresentation means your intention is to victimize another person who you can potentially target for sexual assault after marriage. If you are hiding your past sexual misconduct, it means you know that it was wrong and you also know that telling the other person would result in them rejecting you for marriage and sponsorship for Canada. Especially, for a woman, it's her right to know whether the person she is getting married with matches her preference and knowing this could make her determine better if he is the right person for her or not. Because a woman seeking a virgin and loyal spouse like herself would dislike someone who engages in sexual relations with multiple women, and she knows their values won't match and marriage won't be successful and above all, there would be risk of sexual harassment.

 

[James Russo]

Hi, I am a female victim of marriage fraud. I sponsored my spouse to come to Canada but he disappeared in 11 days and moved to another province in communication with his known contacts there. He also assaulted me sexually, physically and mentally. He also had pre-marital sexual relations with other girls and fraudulently married me by misrepresenting himself to be a virgin when he was not.

I had reported the matter to CBSA by submitting tip online but nothing was done and they don't provide any update. This fraudster is moving freely and doing multiple jobs in Canada, greedy enough to earn dollars.

I am writing to know if others who faced similar issue of marriage fraud can provide information - whether you were able to deport him/her and how?

Also, Canadian Police does not have any law or authority to arrest the person on the basis of this marriage scam. When will Canada make such a rule to protect the immigrants from these scammers who take advantage of them and sexually harass them?

I see a lot of people in this group experiencing extreme anxiety about bringing their spouses over. When IRCC requests extensive evidence and thoroughly checks the applicant’s background, that is one way to prevent marriages of convenience from happening. But as adults, we need to take responsibility when we choose to sponsor someone. As you said, you believed that an adult man was a virgin! Really?! After a failed marriage, you wish he could be deported. It doesn’t work that way, and it’s important that it doesn’t.

A sponsor should never have the power to deport anyone during the PR processing or after their PR has been granted. This avoid any type of abuse. At that point, IRCC has very limited authority to do anything about your relationship or marriage. As someone mentioned above, this might be a police matter. If you have all evidences about sexual, physical and mental assalt, He could be prosecuted and will need a good lawyer, but there’s no guarantee that he will be deported. Justice is not revange.

 

[James Russo]

This is very important for any outland applicant who is reading this post and waiting for their spouse to land in Canada. Take this process very seriously and with a high level of responsibility! After landing, your spouse has no obligation to stay with you. Do not apply to sponsor someone you have only met recently or someone you have not spent much time with in person. The IRCC website lists several red flags that can help you avoid this kind of headache.

As I said, after your spouse lands, you still have a sponsorship undertaking for 3 years, while your spouse has no legal obligation to stay with you. So... be careful, take this process seriously, and make sure you’re falling in love with the right person.

 

[armoured]

Yes, I reported sexual assault to the police which is under review.

But the police is not the one who can deport him and revoke his PR.

Provide the information about the police report and any subsequent follow-up (eg if charges are actually laid) to IRCC.

 

[canuck78]

I have all the evidence about marriage fraud but it appears there's no proper legal reform available for action to be taken against the fraudster.

Hiding past sexual misconduct is a serious matter and an important decision criteria for someone to agree on marrying someone. Misrepresentation means your intention is to victimize another person who you can potentially target for sexual assault after marriage. If you are hiding your past sexual misconduct, it means you know that it was wrong and you also know that telling the other person would result in them rejecting you for marriage and sponsorship for Canada. Especially, for a woman, it's her right to know whether the person she is getting married with matches her preference and knowing this could make her determine better if he is the right person for her or not. Because a woman seeking a virgin and loyal spouse like herself would dislike someone who engages in sexual relations with multiple women, and she knows their values won't match and marriage won't be successful and above all, there would be risk of sexual harassment.

Not being a virgin is not sexual misconduct. It is lying to your future spouse but no more than that if their sexual history has been between consenting adults. Not being a virgin before marriage has nothing to do with the potential to victimize or sexually assault a partner after marriage. Not being a virgin before marriage is not a predictor of loyalty, marriage success, etc. Although you may be upset by the fact that your spouse lied to you this has nothing to do with potential marriage fraud, potential sexual assault, etc. and your focus on it will not help your criminal or immigration cases. I assume this may have been an arranged marriage where you spent limited time together before marriage and likely after marriage and that is one of the reasons you may not have known your spouse well before sponsoring him. Although you a seem very judgemental when it comes to things like not being a virgin before marriage, your situation would be highly unusual had you lived with your now spouse for a few years before marriage.

 

[armoured]

As I said, after your spouse lands, you still have a sponsorship undertaking for 3 years, while your spouse has no legal obligation to stay with you. So... be careful, take this process seriously, and make sure you’re falling in love with the right person.

I would add: for a while, and at various times, the government attempted to implement and apply various 'conditions' to sponsored spouses (eg they could lose their PR status in some cases if they didn't remain married), precisely to attempt to deal with such cases.

The result? Widespread # of cases (more than now) of physical and other abuse of sponsored spouses, who (rightly!) did not want to lose their residency status if they quit an abusive marriage. It was child's play for a PR/citizen spouse to threaten the sponsored spouse with loss of status.

So it was cancelled. And rightfully so.

 

[armoured]

If you are hiding your past sexual misconduct, it means you know that it was wrong and you also know that telling the other person would result in them rejecting you for marriage and sponsorship for Canada. Especially, for a woman, it's her right to know whether the person she is getting married with matches her preference and knowing this could make her determine better if he is the right person for her or not. Because a woman seeking a virgin and loyal spouse like herself would dislike someone who engages in sexual relations with multiple women, and she knows their values won't match and marriage won't be successful and above all, there would be risk of sexual harassment.

These are all private matters between you and the individual - the government does not exist to check whether your spouse/partner is lying to you. Unless you can provide /direct/ evidence that the other person did this with the intent of committing immigration fraud, (or as noted separately has committed a crime in Canada, which will likely require being convicted), the authorities are just going to say 'private matter.' Again - unless proof of intent or evidence of being dangerous.

Yep - lying to you for a /private/ matter is not against the law unless it literally amounts to fraud. The government is not going to get into either checking or enforcing 'virginity understandings.'

Sponsors are responsible for whom they choose to sponsor, except in a VERY narrow range of cases (criminality or demonstrated intent to conduct immigration fraud). There's a reason only adults are allowed to sponsor or be sponsored - because adults are expected to take responsibility for their own actions and choices.

The government is not at all responsible for whom you choose to sponsor, nor for removing someone due to an unfortunate choice.

This is one of the risks of some marriage arrangements - like not knowing someone well, or relying upon knowledge from internet, etc - and that can include some arranged marriages.

 

[armoured]

Sorry, two additional points:

1) Please take every possible step you can to protect yourself and distance yourself from this individual - who sounds like total garbage of a human being - and this may require seeing a lawyer or other steps. But take any steps you take in recognition that /the government may never be able to deport this individual/, and may not have any basis to do so. In other words, look after yourself in a way that is not dependent on whether that person is a resident of Canada or not. Their residency status is now a matter between them and the government.

Do everything you can to cut yourself off from this person and stay away. That probably means forgetting about what the government will do, or at least after you've provided all the info you can.

2) Please do not interpret anything those here are saying as being 'against' you. We're being blunt: you cannot rely upon the government to take any specific actions - such as deporting them - because the government's interest is different than what you think it is, what you would wish, and what you perceive.

I suspect most here have sympathy for the situaiton you find yourself in - I do - but that doesn't mean we/I think that the govt will do what you'd like, or at least, not quickly, and not without substantially more of a case.

 

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I see a lot of people in this group experiencing extreme anxiety about bringing their spouses over. When IRCC requests extensive evidence and thoroughly checks the applicant’s background, that is one way to prevent marriages of convenience from happening. But as adults, we need to take responsibility when we choose to sponsor someone. As you said, you believed that an adult man was a virgin! Really?! After a failed marriage, you wish he could be deported. It doesn’t work that way, and it’s important that it doesn’t.

A sponsor should never have the power to deport anyone during the PR processing or after their PR has been granted. This avoid any type of abuse. At that point, IRCC has very limited authority to do anything about your relationship or marriage. As someone mentioned above, this might be a police matter. If you have all evidences about sexual, physical and mental assalt, He could be prosecuted and will need a good lawyer, but there’s no guarantee that he will be deported. Justice is not revange.

Only someone who has been victimized and assaulted sexually would know the pain she is going through. Adults who are finding a spouse for marriage to obtain Canada PR does a lot of work in hiding their past sexual misconducts and some do this secretly that does not get reported in the criminal background check done by IRCC at the time of sponsorship. This person has a history of engaging in sexual relations with other girls and secretly, he was doing sexual cyber crime against them without these girls being aware. These girls were feeling they were in relationship with him but at their backs, he was just using them as objects to have sex for his personal pleasure. All this is evident from the proofs I collected from his phone he left behind. His WhatsApp proofs show what he did with those girls.

You cannot hold a victim responsible for the crime committed against her, it can happen with anyone but laws must be there to protect the victims and if current laws are not satisfactory, amendment should be made and new laws should be developed. I had no information about him before marriage. While searching for life partner, he was the only one who said he was virgin and I was looking for a virgin man as per my preference. It's not a case of failed marriage. It's a case of marriage fraud where he lied to me about his past history and no such proof was available of his sexual misconduct until I discovered the evidence from his phone. Since he has done fraud with me to get PR, he must be deported. It does not also work the way you are mentioning it to be. You have no idea of the pain a girl would go through in this case.

There should be rules for protecting the sponsor also because so many marriage fraud cases are happening every year and Canada needs to make new and improved legislation to protect the permanent residents. If you do not have understanding of this case, kindly do not reply. I have only asked those to respond who are victims of these marriage fraud cases.

 

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This is very important for any outland applicant who is reading this post and waiting for their spouse to land in Canada. Take this process very seriously and with a high level of responsibility! After landing, your spouse has no obligation to stay with you. Do not apply to sponsor someone you have only met recently or someone you have not spent much time with in person. The IRCC website lists several red flags that can help you avoid this kind of headache.

As I said, after your spouse lands, you still have a sponsorship undertaking for 3 years, while your spouse has no legal obligation to stay with you. So... be careful, take this process seriously, and make sure you’re falling in love with the right person.

Yes, there is a big marriage fraud scam going on especially because there is no applicable law to take action against those who do this. Those who are not qualified enough to get PR themselves are choosing marriage with a PR as the last resort and they can do anything whatever possible to go through.

 

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Not being a virgin is not sexual misconduct. It is lying to your future spouse but no more than that if their sexual history has been between consenting adults. Not being a virgin before marriage has nothing to do with the potential to victimize or sexually assault a partner after marriage. Not being a virgin before marriage is not a predictor of loyalty, marriage success, etc. Although you may be upset by the fact that your spouse lied to you this has nothing to do with potential marriage fraud, potential sexual assault, etc. and your focus on it will not help your criminal or immigration cases. I assume this may have been an arranged marriage where you spent limited time together before marriage and likely after marriage and that is one of the reasons you may not have known your spouse well before sponsoring him. Although you a seem very judgemental when it comes to things like not being a virgin before marriage, your situation would be highly unusual had you lived with your now spouse for a few years before marriage.

This person in context has history of sexual misconduct. He had been persuading girls into relationships, had been doing sex with them for his personal pleasure and was using them for wrongdoings such as capturing their obscene image and sharing with others. I have found all this evidence in his phone including his saying that he sexually seduced the girl for pleasure. So, do not sympathize with him that he was merely a non-virgin and not a sexual harasser. I understand there are people who have sex with each other with consent before marriage and their opinion would be that there is nothing wrong being a non-virgin. But there are also people who are against having sex before marriage and lying about virginity with them is like engaging in marriage with them when they do not have informed consent. Marriage would not even be possible at first if I had known about his past history. I also understand that all non-virgins are sexual harassers but he was. When people from descent families who are serious in their lives about marriage are finding their life partners, they do not want to meet with such people who are having sex before marriage every now and then like anything. In this case, he was not only non-virgin but a sexual harasser which is a crime. However, I have also seen people telling truth about their past history openly when engaging with relationship like marriage but those who keep lying to deceive others and for any benefits like getting PR should be penalized.