The days of fake marriages and immigration crooks–who reportedly blatantly misuse and exploit the partner sponsorship facility, to help an overseas aspirant gain admission into Canada, through this famous immigration route–may soon be over, or so it seems.

Thanks to the latest Canadian immigration rules and regulations–duly tailored to prevent and control the menace of false marriages–all childless individuals, who have sponsorship from the citizens of Canada, whom they marry, have to stay with each other for a minimum of two years.

Meanwhile–and talking about the measures—the nation’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister was quoted as saying that innumerable cases of marriage fraud exist. Jason Kenney, the minister added that the 2-year condition of cohabitation is likely to prevent people and organized groups from arranging fake weddings with the citizens of the Maple Country only to leave, or never meet up their sponsors later.  This may be a completely different issue altogether that the sponsors afterwards time and again have to re-pay welfare maintenance charges, billed for arranged weddings by crooked recruiters from abroad.

In this connection, the minister talked about the officers of Canada in Hong Kong, who reportedly unearthed a China-based organization, which billed susceptible young women a maximum of $60,000 each for arranged weddings and citizenship with the other partners-in-crime in the Maple Country (Canada).

Kenney further said that despite the fact that the nationals of Canada by and large may be rather bighearted and welcome guests, they are intolerant of the fraudsters who indulge in wrong and unlawful practices to have an edge over other visa candidates—many of who could be genuine.

In a related development, a concerned person praised the minister for the fresh brave measures in an essential crusade against the increasing nuisance of matrimony scam. However, she urged Kenney to make the concerned authorities of Canada disclose the particulars of the indicted fraudsters, even while an estimated 15,000 sufferers look forward to appeals and appraisal of the cases.

Kenney further said that the 2-year Immigration & Refugee Protection Regulations changes–which started only recently– begin when a fresh entrant gets the prized permanent resident status of the nation— which would be cancelled, in case a couple parts away, or in no way stays with each other. He, however, added that some exemptions would be duly mulled over n cases which cover properly established abuse by the sponsor or a family member, desertion, or the death of the sponsor.

The amendments, the minister continued–on the lines of those already in existence in the US, Australia, and Great Britain–were endorsed 5 months, post Ottawa officially forbid the sponsored partners from offering sponsorship to a fresh partner for 5 years, in the wake of having the nation’s permanent resident status.

The minister continued that he sought changes in rules in the aftermath of getting appeals during 2009 from certain units to stop wedding rackets which included persecution and ill-treatment, in addition to cases in which the individuals mint money, via offering sponsorship to spouses from abroad who they quickly divorce, prior to re-presenting their much sought after services to other interested but vulnerable aspirants.