Immigration cheats ‘using North for wedding scams’

IMMIGRATION cheats, some coming from the Republic, are using the North as the base for a money-spinning bogus marriage scam to get EU citizenship, it was claimed last night.

One man has been arrested by police on suspicion of carrying six fake wedding licences. A woman was ordered to the return to the Far East after registry office officials in Co Antrim were alerted to irregular papers as she was set to wed. One source said: “There’s big, big money in this.

“People are prepared to pay thousands to get EU citizenship and obviously they think there’s a weak link in the system.”