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Friday, December 9, 2016

For Love or Love of Money?

From the LA Times / Quartz Africa -

Uganda is worried about the number of Chinese men marrying their women

Contractors, petty traders, investors, and entrepreneurs from China have been pouring into Uganda for the past decade. China is a top investor in the east African country, accounting for as much as half of total foreign investment between 2014 and 2015, according to the Uganda Investment Authority.
But according to Ugandan immigration officials, there’s one major downside: an increasing number of Chinese men are marrying Ugandan women to gain residency and continue their business interests in the country.

Officials told a parliamentary committee in late November that they are seeing more and more Chinese-Ugandan couples, often in sham unions. Couples are normally interviewed before spousal status is granted and Chinese men involved in sham marriages are deported.

http://qz.com/857156/uganda-is-worried-about-the-number-of-chinese-men-marrying-their-women/

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