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omonatheydidFake marriage is emerging as a vehicle ineligible foreigners use to get legal residential status here, challenging the most popular method of document fabrication.
Some men have been accused of luring mentally-challenged Koreans to pursue their “Korean dream” or even committing bigamy ㅡ getting married to a Korean with their first spouse being in their homeland.
“It’s an emerging trend,” an immigration official said. “We are trying to screen suspicious cases, but we fall short of completely stopping all such schemes.”
Among the latest cases was a man from Bangladesh, who first came to Korea in November 2000 but was later deported for staying after his visa expired. To return legally, he attempted to marry a Korean woman, one of his friends during his initial stay here, and earned her consent for marriage.
But the attempt was foiled when immigration authorities found that he had an “extra” Korean girlfriend he had got engaged to in case he failed to marry the first.
In another case, a Pakistani man successfully won permanent residential status after marrying a Korean. But it was later confirmed that he had a wife and five children in his home country, according to the Ministry of Justice. His Korean wife filed a divorce suit against him. The court canceled his status and permanently banned him from entering the country.
According to sources, there are tips shared on how to select easy “targets” and get close to them.
“Aged, single and mentally-challenged women are favorites,” a source said. “The best way to grab citizenship is getting Korean women pregnant.”
Lee Jeong-doo, a Seoul Immigration Office official, said pregnancy is regarded as proof that the couple is willing to maintain their marriage so that officials rarely doubt the foreign spouses’ purpose here. Immigration officials complain that courts are too lenient on the issue, making the situation worse.
In fact, many foreign spouses, despite living separately from their Korean partner for a long time upon arrival, were found not guilty of bogus marriages, as they kept in touch and met regularly.
Even the court acquitted those who pled guilty to entering the country through the criminal act if it decided that they actually loved each other and acted as a real couple ㅡ regardless of the original purpose their marriage.
“The prosecution also deals with such cases in the same way, which means post-wedding life outweighs its original purpose in judging whether it was legal or not,” a Supreme Court spokesman said. “But if any financial transaction as a reward for the marriage is confirmed, the court used to hand down a guilty verdict.”
No statistics on how many foreigners have entered into such fraudulent marriages are available. Last year, a total of 7,275 foreigners earned permanent resident status through marriage to a Korean, up from 5,792 in 2008.
source: www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/08/117_71703.html
Some men have been accused of luring mentally-challenged Koreans to pursue their “Korean dream” or even committing bigamy ㅡ getting married to a Korean with their first spouse being in their homeland.
“It’s an emerging trend,” an immigration official said. “We are trying to screen suspicious cases, but we fall short of completely stopping all such schemes.”
Among the latest cases was a man from Bangladesh, who first came to Korea in November 2000 but was later deported for staying after his visa expired. To return legally, he attempted to marry a Korean woman, one of his friends during his initial stay here, and earned her consent for marriage.
But the attempt was foiled when immigration authorities found that he had an “extra” Korean girlfriend he had got engaged to in case he failed to marry the first.
In another case, a Pakistani man successfully won permanent residential status after marrying a Korean. But it was later confirmed that he had a wife and five children in his home country, according to the Ministry of Justice. His Korean wife filed a divorce suit against him. The court canceled his status and permanently banned him from entering the country.
According to sources, there are tips shared on how to select easy “targets” and get close to them.
“Aged, single and mentally-challenged women are favorites,” a source said. “The best way to grab citizenship is getting Korean women pregnant.”
Lee Jeong-doo, a Seoul Immigration Office official, said pregnancy is regarded as proof that the couple is willing to maintain their marriage so that officials rarely doubt the foreign spouses’ purpose here. Immigration officials complain that courts are too lenient on the issue, making the situation worse.
In fact, many foreign spouses, despite living separately from their Korean partner for a long time upon arrival, were found not guilty of bogus marriages, as they kept in touch and met regularly.
Even the court acquitted those who pled guilty to entering the country through the criminal act if it decided that they actually loved each other and acted as a real couple ㅡ regardless of the original purpose their marriage.
“The prosecution also deals with such cases in the same way, which means post-wedding life outweighs its original purpose in judging whether it was legal or not,” a Supreme Court spokesman said. “But if any financial transaction as a reward for the marriage is confirmed, the court used to hand down a guilty verdict.”
No statistics on how many foreigners have entered into such fraudulent marriages are available. Last year, a total of 7,275 foreigners earned permanent resident status through marriage to a Korean, up from 5,792 in 2008.
source: www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/08/117_71703.html
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Date: 2010-08-20 01:56 am (UTC)That's so horrible.
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Date: 2010-08-20 01:58 am (UTC)“Aged, single and mentally-challenged women are favorites,” a source said. “The best way to grab citizenship is getting Korean women pregnant.”
-that's just awful. Nonsense like this happens in the US, too. ;_;
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Date: 2010-08-20 08:37 am (UTC)" select easy “targets” "
Date: 2010-08-20 02:00 am (UTC)Re: " select easy “targets” "
Date: 2010-08-20 02:00 am (UTC)Re: " select easy “targets” "
Date: 2010-08-20 02:01 am (UTC)Re: " select easy “targets” "
Date: 2010-08-20 02:23 am (UTC)“The best way to grab citizenship is getting Korean women pregnant.”
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Date: 2010-08-20 02:10 am (UTC)conflicting emotions, I have them
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Date: 2010-08-20 02:09 am (UTC)what the shit?
“Aged, single and mentally-challenged women are favorites,”
WHAT THE SHIT?
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Date: 2010-08-20 07:02 am (UTC)extremely stupid and gullible?
oh
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Date: 2010-08-20 03:05 am (UTC)That's just messed up. :\
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Date: 2010-08-20 01:39 pm (UTC)People want to live in a better country. You can't blame them.
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Date: 2010-08-20 04:22 pm (UTC)I hope they stay on top of this though and deport/ban people; and I mean both men and women who try to cheat the system like that.
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Date: 2010-08-22 03:25 am (UTC)