Foi Request on Sham Marriages

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Quote from poster: ‘I was going to do my own FOI request but it looks like someone else got there before

me. As a good British citizen I will not be taking the valuable time of our UKBA with my request as the

following gives me the answer. I wanted to put this whole we need to crackdown on spouse visas because

of sham marriage question to bed - so I have the answer. In 2011 only 87 convictions were made on

"sham marriages" putting that into context then if the approximate non EEA immigration total wasroughly 250,000 and spouse visas only account for 3% so if we say roughly of the 7,500 spouse visas

granted in 2011 only 87 were exposed and convicted as sham marriage. So basically the government and

the gutter press are banging on about 1% of the total spouse visas given out being sham. ‘

From: Colin Yeo

16 January 2012

Dear UK Border Agency,

Damian Green asserted on 15 September 2011 in a speech widely

reported in the press that there had been 155 arrests in sham

marriage cases in the previous year.

Please disclose the number of criminal convictions in connection

with sham marriages in the following years along with the criminal

law under which the conviction was obtained:

1. 2010

2. 2011

Yours faithfully,

Colin Yeo

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From: Freedom Of Information Team ( IND )UK Border Agency

17 January 2012

Dear Colin Yeo

Re: Criminal convictions in connection with sham marriages (100620)

Thank you for your recent e mail concerning the above matter. We are currently dealing with

your enquiry and will respond shortly.



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Kind Regards

UKBA

FOI Team

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Ref: Freedom of Information Act request no 21379

Dear Colin Yeo,

Thank you for your e mail of 16th January 2012 in which you asked for the following

information,

“Damian Green asserted on 15 September 2011 in a speech widely reported in the

press that there had been 155 arrests in sham marriage cases in the previous year.

Please disclose the number of criminal convictions in connection with sham

marriages in the following years along with the criminal law under which the

conviction was obtained:

1. 2010

2. 2011

Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of

Information Act 2000.

The 155 arrests refer to arrests made during a specific enforcement campaign and

are not representative of arrests made for the whole of 2010. From data held there

have been the following numbers of convictions in connection with marriage abuse

cases:

January 2011- December 2011- 229

January 2010- December 2010 - 87

List of offences:

January 2011- December 2011

January 2010- December 2010

Count of Offence Charged

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Count of Offence Charged

Offence Charged

Total

Offence ChargedTotal

No Offence Entered

1

Brit Nat Act 1981 S46

1

CLA 1977 S1(1)

12

CJA 1925 S36

1

Common Law

4

CLA 1977 S1(1)

1

FCA 1981 S3

1

FCA 1981 S3

3

Fraud Act 2006 S11

1

Fraud Act 2006 S2

6

Fraud Act 2006 S2

9

IA 1971 S24(1)(b)(i)

1

Fraud Act 2006 S6

5

IA 1971 S24A(1)(a)

15

IA 1971 S24(1)(a)

1

IA 1971 S25(1)

23

IA 1971 S24A(1)(a)28



IA 1971 S25B

1

IA 1971 S24A(1)(a)

3

ICA 2006 S25(1)13

IA 1971 S24A(1)(b)

9

ICA 2006 S25(5)

1

IA 1971 S25(1)

83

OAP 1861 S57

2

ICA 2006 S25(1)

24

PA1911 S3(1)(a)

11

ICA 2006 S25(5)

6

PA1911 S3(1)(b)

7

ICA 2006 S25(7)

1

TA 1968 S15

1

IDA 2010 S4

1

Grand Total

87

OAP 1861 S57

7

PA1911 S3(1)(a)

27

PA1911 S3(1)(b)3



Police - Other

3

Grand Total

229

CJA = Criminal Justice Act

CLA = Criminal Law Act

FCA = Forgery & Counterfeiting ActIA = Immigration Act

ICA = Identity Cards Act

IDA = Identity Documents Act

OAP = Offences Against the Person

PA = Perjury Act

TA = Theft Act

*Please note, all data is sourced from management information tools (National

Operations Database- NOD) and are not quality assured under National Statistics

protocols. Figures provided do not constitute part of National Statistics and should be

treated as provisional. Statistics reported from NOD relate to UKBA Enforcement

teams only and do not include those investigations undertaken by UK Borders or

some of the work of our Crime staff in remote locations

If you are dissatisfied with this response you may request an independent internal

review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months

to the address below, quoting reference FOI 21379. If you ask for an internal review,

it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.

Information Access TeamHome Office

Ground Floor, Seacole Building

2 Marsham Street

London SW1P 4DF

e-mail: [email address]

As part of any internal review the Department's handling of your information request

will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this

response. If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right

of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the

Freedom of Information Act.

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Yours sincerely

Brendan CreanIntelligence & Analysis

UK Border Agency