Scotland on Sunday - Politics - 'Green card weddings' up 1,000%: "'Green card weddings' up 1,000%
BRIAN BRADY
WESTMINSTER EDITOR
A CRACKDOWN on bogus weddings involving immigrants trying to acquire British passports has resulted in 2,000-plus sham marriages being exposed, more than 10 times the figure for the previous year.
Home Office ministers have admitted that the total of �green card� marriages reported to the authorities leapt from 205 in 2002 to 2,172 last year. "
