Sham Marriage?

[FredPuli43]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2489949/Police-storm-sham-wedding-Harrods-workers-realising-real.html

Not that exclusive a story; The Times has the same one; but the idea that it wasn't a sham marriage because, inter alia, the bride was carrying a Chanel bag, is amusing. Did our immigration officials act with principle but too much enthusiasm in how they exercised their powers?

[emmie]

from the CNJ

A spokesman for the council said: “We are legally obliged to report any suspected sham marriages or civil partnerships to the Home Office. It is then for the Home Office to decide how to progress and whether to take action.”

A Home Office spokesman said: “Where suspicions are raised that a marriage may not be genuine we will investigate. On this occasion no action was taken.”

Of 2,800 marriages and civil partnerships at Camden Town Hall between January 1, 2012 and September 30, 2013, 94 were reported to the Home Office as potentially “sham”, a council spokesman said

[jno]

did the spokesman say how many of them really shams?

[mccfluff]

but i want to marry an eu citizen :-(, i bought a hat and everything!!

[mccfluff]

so how many were actually "sham"????

[jno]

has the hat got French farm produce and stuff on it? Straight bananas and rainbow sheep and human rights, that kind of thing?

[emmie]

ask the Home Office, or Camden Council,

[mccfluff]

how did you guess??? are you marrying me?

[mccfluff]

lol as the registrar not my genuine beloved

[emmie]

one that seems to be fake,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2478860/Sri-Lankan-national-caught-trying-marry-Italian-woman-sham-marriage-claim-British-benefits-EU-rules.html

[bazwillrun]

lets hope they are as quick to stop all the african sham marriages over here that have been going on for years

[anotheoldgit]

Notice you have joined the readership of the Daily Mail, how hypocritical of you FredPuli43.

[FredPuli43]

AOG, t found the story in The Times online first. The Times however has a paywall and only subscribers get the whole story, as I have discovered when giving a link to the paper before on here; the rest only get the headline and perhaps the first paragraph.

The Mail is open to anybody, and free, so I went to see whether I could find the story there, for you and the rest of us.

Satisfied?