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Monday, June 28, 2004

Scotland on Sunday - Politics - 'Green card weddings' up 1,000%

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. "
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