Last week, Pallavi Sharma, a sprightly young woman in her early 20s, found her dreams of studying abroad shattered. Pallavi, who successfully cleared her IELTS with a score of 6.5 bands in September last year, had been eagerly planning to pursue an undergraduate program in a Canadian university.
Her engagement last month added another layer to her journey, as her fiancé was set to sponsor her student visa. However, a recent announcement by Canada's immigration minister, Marc Miller, has thrown a wrench into her well-laid plans.
So she wanted to come over here and flip burgers lol.
Speaking to The Indian Express, Pallavi expressed her disappointment, saying, “After completing class 12, I pursued a diploma in computer applications and cleared IELTS with 6.5 bands. Due to financial constraints, my family explored the option of a spouse visa, where the boy wanted to go abroad. Everything was arranged, and I even got engaged. But the new regulations state that spouses of students in undergraduate programs cannot obtain an open work permit. Without financial support from my fiancé's family, there is no way I can pursue my dreams. My family doesn't have the means to pay my fees.”
!leafs look at this shit! b-word is admitting outright to using marriage as a way to come here and work illegally. She doesn't even bullshit about finding true love, just "I wanted to go to canada so my father talked to his friend and engaged me to his friends son".
Of late, such ‘IELTS weddings' had become a new route to Canada in Punjab. A study titled “A study on overseas migration from Rural Punjab: Trends, Causes, and Consequences,” by Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) from 1990 to 2022 revealed that 9.51% of Punjabis migrated abroad on a spouse visa. Notably, over 50% of these migrants were males. The gender-wise distribution showed that males (53.16%) outnumbered females (46.89%). This shift was attributed to a new trend of ‘contract marriage' initiated by men with women obtaining high IELTS bands for study visas who would later sponsor their husbands on spousal open work visas.
We need to end visas for indians entirely. Just suck it up and start paying whites the extra 4 an hour they demand to do fast food jobs, or heck just close half the restaurants. They've over saturated the market anyway
It is commonplace for families to place matrimonial advertisements seeking IELTS-passed girls, with the groom's family covering the wedding expenses, sending the girl to Canada, and bearing the financial burden—often exceeding 25 lakhs. Jagseer Singh Jhumba from Jhumba village in Bathinda highlighted this trend, stating, “It was a gateway to enter Canada.”
No idea what a lakh is worth but I'm guessing it's not much. !fellas how would you feel about a mail order Indian bride?
The trend of groom's families paying for the IELTS exam of the girl, often from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, is widely known. Unfortunately, incidents of suicides and police complaints have been reported when girls refused to call grooms after reaching Canada or when couples divorced after obtaining permanent residency.
lmao rare based !foidmoment
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Oh wow she got 6.5 bands…. 6.5 BANDS GUYS!
When I was in high school I played guitar in only 2 bands I'm a sorry excuse for bands.
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I believe the savage subcontinental adds another band to their neck jewelry to signify how many eggs she has passed.
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