Foreign Bride and Canada Border Services Agency

Canada Border Services Agency: The agency alleges 60-year-old Gilbert Leland Platts of Edmonton was to get money from his foreign bride for the phoney relationship, according to CTV. "It's alleged that he had already received a portion of that money and he would receive the other portion at the time she did receive her status in Canada." - An Edmonton man has been charged with marriage fraud in what the Canada Border Services Agency says is a first in Alberta. "It's alleged that he entered into an agreement with this woman that she would pay him $5,000 to marry her and then she would be able to get a permanent residency status in Canada," spokesman Sean Best said Tuesday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.