Sunday, April 22, 2012

ALMOST 8,800 PEOPLE TO FACE CITIZENSHIP REVOCATION

This investigation has been reported several times, but it seems to be progressing to a new phase


Thousands may have citizenship revoked


Thousands may have citizenship revoked

The federal government is in the process of revoking the citizenship of 2,300 people, with at least 6,000 more cases under investigation, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Friday. He said a two-year RCMP investigation identified at least 8,800 cases of alleged residency fraud.
"Thousands of people were using crooked immigration consultants to create fake proof of residency in Canada," he said.
Kenney also spoke about changes to citizenship criteria.
"We had begun to devalue citizenship in the sense that we were not consistently applying the statutory requirements," he s

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