Filipiniana News - October 2013 RHYME & REASON Amidst the public warnings and stricter government scrutiny of this class of immigration applications, cases of spousal sponsorship fraud still seem to abound. I have spoken with a number of Canadian sponsors who, after learning that their foreign spouses only married them for purposes of gaining immigration status in Canada, wanted to know how they can have their sponsored spouses deported. At this point, the sponsored spouses have already been granted permanent residence and the sponsors cannot simply revoke the three-year undertaking to support that they submitted with the sponsorship application. As much as they would want these alleged fraudsters deported immediately, they are disappointed to learn that the legal processes which need to be undertaken before the sponsored spouse can be deported from Canada can take a long time. Meanwhile, there are couples in genuine, committed an...