Sentences with phrase «marriage as a sham»

The more the immigrant spouse's legal rights in the marriage are limited, the more likely immigration officials are to view the marriage as a sham and the couple as engaged in marriage fraud.

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= > you mean godless unions as God would never approve such sham marriages.

So that's 1,000 international students in sham marriages — just 0.2 % of international students as a whole.

Due to the deficient identity authentication system, fraudulent behaviors such as coaxing people to spend money on wine and meals and even swindling money through sham marriages were seen on some dating sites including jiayuan.com, baihe.com and zhenai.com.

Adding to the hilarious chaos, her family brings her ex, Angel, into the picture and convinces Valentina to go along with a sham marriage to him in an effort to stop further negative press as her father runs for re-election.

Loads of priceless gags are mined from Tim and Daisy's marriage pretense and Marsha's failure to recognize it as a sham, and by the end of the series there's even some bittersweet pathos in regard to the situation.

The issues in this historical romance are very contemporary, such as the heroine's sham of a marriage to a man who is gay but, due to his lineage and social standing in Victorian England, is just as much a victim of society as Tallie is.

It seems as though Lord Hawke married the women in question but there was instead some question whether the marriage was a sham and that she was instead his mistress who he was calling Lady Hawke until he booted her out of the house and no longer wanted her calling herself Lady Hawke.