A 45-year-old Dutch woman has been jailed for four years for organising nine sham marriages for Nigeians in UK.
Diana Olivieira was arrested after investigations by the UK Border Agency found she travelled from Holland to the UK several times with brides from Holland who then marry Nigerian nationals so that they and their partners could take up residency in the UK.
As people from the Netherlands are entitled to live and work in the UK, while here their spouses applied for documents and National Insurance numbers.
After they married, the Nigerians applied for European Economic Area (EEA) residency status as spouses of EEA nationals.
Dave Magrath, from the UK Border Agency, said: "The sentence handed to Olivieira sends out a clear message that we will not tolerate abuse of our immigration system."
Six of the Nigerian grooms and some of their partners have been prosecuted and received jail sentences totalling 17 years.
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