Immigration Sponsorship: Marriage Fraud

Immigration Applications Dept: The 35-year-old resident of Brampton, Ont., met her future husband, Indian national Manjit Shahi, on an online forum four years ago. After corresponding with him for a year, she flew to India in November 2007 and married him. Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is considering stiffer rules that would make it tougher to sponsor a spouse to come to Canada, according to CBC. Marriage fraud for the purposes of immigration has been an issue for years in Canada, with hundreds of reported cases of newly wed foreigners ditching their sponsoring spouse once the permanent residency card arrives and ashpreet Badwal's immigration-sponsorship saga reaches all the way to the top. Thousands of dollars spent on immigration applications and appeals and more than two years later, Badwal was able to sponsor her husband to come to Canada. Shahi was granted a permanent residence visa June 26, 2010, but on the very day in early July that he arrived at Toronto airport, he called Badwal to say he wasn't going to meet her, she says. She hasn't seen him since. As reported in the news.
@t permanent residence visa, permanent residency card