After the US and Canada, Australia is the new address of sham marriages. In their pursuit of the dollar dream, young men and women are using the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) way to enter Australia.
With more Punjabi girls than boys able to clear the IELTS, they secure admission into Australian colleges and universities with relative ease. They then start looking for a groom willing to pay the hefty fee.
There have been several cases of such brides being abandoned by their spouses on reaching Australia. Manpreet Kaur, 25, from Tusse village in Ludhiana, who married Kulvinder Singh of Sujapur, is one such victim. Having scored 5.5 bands in IELTS, she struck a deal with Kulvinder in 2008. The latter agreed to pay her fee for a diploma in management from a Melbourne college. He sent her back to India in January this year, promising that he would join her later. He never returned.
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