42 Weddings have the same Guests

In India, many times mass marriages occur in which some organization arranges for the mass marriages for the poor in which hundreds of couples tie the knot at one time & live happily thereafter. In such mass marriages there are many couples presents but guests in all such marriages are the same.

But here is a case in which many people only pretended to be the couples. In fact, they imitated as husband & wife just to have a joint photograph for their immigration needs to Canada. In one of the wedding venue in Chandigarh in India, 42 such couples posed for the joint photograph while guests in all those 42 cases were the same in the marriage venue.

Canadian immigration officials have discovered 42 wedding albums - submitted by 42 different Indians applying for citizenship - in which the guests in the photos were identical.

"You'd have to believe that 42 weddings had the same guests," said Mendel Green, president of Green and Spiegel, an immigration law firm.

"Yes, people have brought fake photos to us," said Ravi Jain, a partner with Green and Spiegel.

"We have seen people posing in the photos. We have seen the same wedding halls, the same guests over and over again."

Liberal MP Roy Cullen said many Indo-Canadians have expressed concern over this abuse of the system, the Toronto Sun reported.

In addition to people getting legal immigration status with these phoney marriages, Jain said Canadian immigration officers have also started "over-scrutinizing all family class applications, genuine marriages."

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