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Immigration Officers: Immigration Officer

Canadian Immigration Dept: Nor are many jobs more agonizingly difficult -- particularly when an immigration officer must make decisions about people desperate to come to Canada as marriage partners, according to Vancouver Sun. Most of the 50,000 Canadians who apply each year to sponsor a foreign wife or husband are no doubt legitimate and committed. But at least 10,000 of their cases are turned down each year, often after immigration officers judge them to be cons and not many jobs are more powerful than those of Canadian immigration officers. Other than being a judge, few careers give someone near-absolute authority over someone else's future. The life-and-death choices Canadian immigration officers must make are complicated by what Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, many humiliated Canadian sponsors and immigration lawyers are calling a rising tide of fraudulent "marriages of convenience." As reported in the news.
@t marriages of convenience, death choices