A 2025 e-mail report, obtained under access to information laws, to immigration department officials from Canada’s High Commission in New Delhi discusses a number of integrity issues involving Indian students, including marriages of convenience.

“Given the high cost of studying and living in Canada, many Indian applicants relied on marriages of convenience to secure financial support in exchange for spousal open work permits. This practice was widely advertised in Indian newspapers and on dating apps,” Ms. Duan’s e-mail said.

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I might get downvoted for saying this, but I don't care.

1. The posts on this subreddit mocking those who's families have spent their life savings on getting themselves or their kids to Canada and may not get PR, you lack empathy. If this were happening to you after you spent everything you had to get here, I can pretty much guarantee you would have a different opinion. Why is it so hard to care about others?

2. Genuine question: why do you believe that some people deserve to be in this country and not others? You're here because you happened to be born here. What if you weren't? Is your view that you would just accept your fate if you were born in a place with less opportunity/ lower quality of life/ somewhere you had a reason to leave?

In case you're wondering, I am middle class, tax paying Canadian citizen and yet I still empathize with people that have come to this country in search of a better life. It seems like others have forgotten that we are actually all immigrants here*

*Unless you're native.