{"id":6024,"date":"2006-04-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/04\/11\/2006-04-11-uk-sham-marriage-low-ruled-discriminatory-against-non-christians\/"},"modified":"2006-04-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T12:00:00","slug":"2006-04-11-uk-sham-marriage-low-ruled-discriminatory-against-non-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/04\/11\/2006-04-11-uk-sham-marriage-low-ruled-discriminatory-against-non-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Sham Marriage Low Ruled Discriminatory Against non-Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/inwww.rediff.com\/newshound\/showarticle.htm?rediffid=http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/1485234.cms\">inwww.rediff.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LONDON, ENGLAND, April 10, 2006: Britain&#8217;s tough new rules to end and expose the notorious back-door immigration practice of &#8220;sham marriages&#8221; have been judged discriminatory to non-European and non-Christian immigrants and incompatible with the European Convention of Human Rights. The extraordinary decision by the London High Court strikes down the British government&#8217;s 14-month-old crackdown on a practice said to involve thousands of non-European Union (EU) immigrants. In an ironic coincidence, the court ruling came within hours of a separate decision on a notorious British Indian couple who have already been jailed for running a &#8220;marriage factory&#8221;. The so-called &#8220;marriage factory&#8221; run by Jaswinder and Darshan Gill, &#8220;sold&#8221; British passport-holding spouses to illegal immigrants from India in a scam that lasted many years. The British judge ruled it discriminatory to prevent a non-EU immigrant from marrying at will whilst in the UK. From February, 2005, people born outside the EU and who hold a mere six-month British visa, must seek special permission from the Home Office to marry. This rule applies only to non-EU visitors belonging to the Hindu, Sikh, Muslim or any faith other than Church of England. The rule does not apply to non-EU visitors who worship in the Church of England. It is not yet clear if the British government will appeal against the court ruling.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inwww.rediff.com LONDON, ENGLAND, April 10, 2006: Britain&#8217;s tough new rules to end and expose the notorious back-door immigration practice of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}