Tuesday, May 17, 2005

A shame about sham marriages

It's good to see that one loophole on gaining UK citizenship has finally been closed down. It had been estimated that one in five marriages at Registry Offices were shams. This now appears to have been a gross underestimate, three in five were!!. The policy must be working as the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) are complaining that it penalises genuine couples.

2 comments:

dearieme said...

If the divorce rate is 50%, perhaps i in 2 marriages are sham?

Anonymous said...

A shocking statistic!