Marriage of Convenience???

[Canadian12]

I am a Canadian citizen. I’m going to have an arranged marriage (Family customs) and my parents have checked everything I mean guy’s references and his activities and all. But the only thing which puts us in doubt is that he doesn’t have permanent status here and one of his reasons to get married is to get legal status in Canada. I am very scared if that would be the only reason for him to marry me. I know no one can tell that but I have heard that immigration and citizenship rules have been tightened. I just want to know if after he gets his permanent status, ditches me, can I do anything to make him fail in his plan? Or is there anything that immigration officers keep checking if the marriage is real if it is then for how long they keep check?
Thanks in Advance

 

[Baloo]

http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/marriage-of-convenience-t83699.0.html

 

[Leon]

If he did ditch you right away, there isn't much you can do. You can report him for marriage fraud but it is hard to prove that is was fraud vs. it just not working out, no spark, whatever so you might not get very far with that.

I have heard of a case though where a woman had divorced her sponsor and was applying to sponsor a new spouse and immigration at that point found that her first marriage was a marriage of convenience and revoked her PR. This may also have been caused by something she said. Maybe she was overzealous to prove her new relationship as being genuine and possibly said that she knew that man or was in love with him since before her first marriage.

Another points is that since you are sponsoring him, you are responsible for him financially for up to 3 years after he lands as a PR. That is, if he leaves you and goes on welfare or disability, you will get the bill from the government to pay it back.

Immigration has been saying that they are planning on changing the rules so the sponsored spouses get a temporary PR card for 2 or 3 years after which time they will check again if they are still married and living with their spouse. As far as I know, they haven't implemented this yet. However, it will not make it easier for your if your husband is just marrying you for PR and lives with you for 2-3 years pretending that everything is good and ditches you then instead of ditching you right away.

 

[PMM]

Hi

If he did ditch you right away, there isn't much you can do. You can report him for marriage fraud but it is hard to prove that is was fraud vs. it just not working out, no spark, whatever so you might not get very far with that.

I have heard of a case though where a woman had divorced her sponsor and was applying to sponsor a new spouse and immigration at that point found that her first marriage was a marriage of convenience and revoked her PR. This may also have been caused by something she said. Maybe she was overzealous to prove her new relationship as being genuine and possibly said that she knew that man or was in love with him since before her first marriage.

Another points is that since you are sponsoring him, you are responsible for him financially for up to 3 years after he lands as a PR. That is, if he leaves you and goes on welfare or disability, you will get the bill from the government to pay it back.

Immigration has been saying that they are planning on changing the rules so the sponsored spouses get a temporary PR card for 2 or 3 years after which time they will check again if they are still married and living with their spouse. As far as I know, they haven't implemented this yet. However, it will not make it easier for your if your husband is just marrying you for PR and lives with you for 2-3 years pretending that everything is good and ditches you then instead of ditching you right away.

You may wish to read some of the decision of the IAD re: marriage of convenience :http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/irb/index.html full text marriage of convenience