What is the legal basis for an annulation of a marriage where one spouse has married the other spouse for the sole purpose of acquiring citizenship status in Canada?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Lall v. Lall, 2012 ONSC 5166 (CanLII):
In Grewal v. Kaur,[1] in 2009, Sproat J., after reviewing the law of Canada governing the validity of a marriage, concluded that Immigration fraud, where one spouse has married the other for the sole purpose of acquiring citizenship status in Canada, unbeknownst to the other sponsoring spouse who thought they were entering into a genuine marriage and who was deceived as to the other spouse’s motivation for entering into the marriage, could not form the legal basis for the granting of an annulment of the marriage.
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