{"id":24104,"date":"2021-11-03T20:43:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T20:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/03\/marriage-for-sale-al-jazeera-world\/"},"modified":"2021-11-03T20:43:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T20:43:21","slug":"marriage-for-sale-al-jazeera-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/03\/marriage-for-sale-al-jazeera-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage for Sale | Al Jazeera World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marriages of convenience, or sham weddings, are an illegal way of obtaining residency and citizenship in Europe countries and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

This film meets men and women who marry – or plan to marry – people they hardly know, with the sole objective of obtaining European residency for one of them. These deals can sometimes cost one of the “partners” as much as 15,000 euros ($18,100) with no guarantee of citizenship in return.<\/p>\n

A so-called “white marriage” is where both parties willingly participate in fraud but stay together. But in what are called “grey marriages”, the whole venture is a charade in which one party not only plays the system but also deceives the other, often with shattering consequences.<\/p>\n

Despite the risks, some see sham marriages as a less dangerous form of migration than crossing the sea in a rubber dingy.<\/p>\n

In this film, we meet six characters who have either been involved in a “grey marriage” already – and suffered the shock and humiliation of being deceived – or who are planning to use marriage as a means to a better future.
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Marriages of convenience, or sham weddings, are an illegal way of obtaining residency and citizenship in Europe countries and elsewhere. This film meets men and women who marry – or plan to marry – people they hardly know, with the sole objective of obtaining European residency for one of them. These deals can sometimes cost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68399,100,104,105,68405,68406,68404,1210,14457,68398,68400,68395,1144,112,68403,3985,68394,217,44038,44043,755,68396,68401,68402,68397,1193],"class_list":["post-24104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european","tag-a-marriage-of-convenience","tag-al-jazeera","tag-al-jazeera-english","tag-aljazeera-english","tag-anchor-babies-documentary","tag-anchor-babies-full-documentary","tag-anchor-babies-uk","tag-documentary","tag-full-length-documentaries","tag-grey-weddings","tag-how-to-buy-your-way-into-britain","tag-how-to-obtain-european-citizenship","tag-human-rights","tag-jazeera","tag-legal-documentary","tag-marriage","tag-marriage-of-convenience","tag-migration","tag-real-stories","tag-real-stories-documentary","tag-sale","tag-sham-marriage","tag-sham-marriages-documentary","tag-sham-wedding","tag-white-weddings","tag-world","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigranttravels.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}