One in five marriages has been the year last in a survey to determine if this was not a marriage of convenience marriage or white.
is what the newspapers reported on Saturday Gazet van Antwerpen and Het Belang van Limburg .
More and more marriages are discovered as a result of letters of termination sent by relatives. These figures
from the annual report of the Office for Foreigners. Five years ago, there were one third less investigated.
According to the Office for Foreigners, more people are trying to settle in Belgium by contracting a marriage of convenience. Prosecutors and civil servants of the state also note more quickly if something "wrong".
Nobody knows exactly how many but marriage reveal suspects eventually be really marriages, say the newspapers.
A new phenomenon has emerged, however, in the fight against such marriages, the letter of termination.
"This is a letter sent by an acquaintance or a family member of the couple to signal that something is wrong," said Monica De Coninck (sp.a), Deputy Mayor for Social Affairs in Antwerp . "Every month we receive five to ten letters of this kind."
http://www.sudpresse.be/actualite/societe/2011-02-26/un-mariage-sur-cinq-suspect-d-etre-un-mariage-blanc-852443.shtml
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