Asian men targeted by sham marriage visa fraud
By The Sunday Tmes 07/19/2015
” A 24-YEAR-OLD Lithuanian woman has been “engaged” to marry four different Asian men in Ireland in the past nine months, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
Three of the men, two from Pakistan and one from India, claim the woman accepted €3,000 from each of them in return for agreeing to enter a sham marriage to regularise their visa status in Ireland. The three men allege the woman took the money but then reneged on the deal.
In the past year there has been a surge in Pakistani nationals coming to Ireland from the UK after a clampdown there on people whose visas have expired. …”
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