The Bureau of Immigration arrested an Indian couple who operate an illegal 5-6 lending office in Caloocan City and for illegally staying in the country.
BI Acting Intelligence Chief Fortunato Manahan Jr. identified the duo as Kuldeep Singh and his common-law wife Manjeet Kaur.
Manahan said BI agents arrested the couple at their residence along Dorotea Road, Grace Park, Caloocan City on the strength of a mission order issued by Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente.
“We requested the mission order after our office received complaints alleging that the couple was engaged in usurious lending activities that prey on small Filipino traders and other residents of the city,” he added.
“Singh resorted to marriage for convenience by faking his marriage to a Filipino citizen which enabled him to acquire resident status in the country,” the BI said.
Singh allegedly presented a marriage certificate purporting that he was married to a certain Filipina but the latter was neither present or could not be located when the BI agents went to his house. Vito Barcelo
“We suspect that the spouse named in his marriage certificate is fictitious as he could not pinpoint her whereabouts. Instead, we discovered that he was living with an Indian woman who turned out to be undocumented as she failed to show any document proving she is legally staying in the country,” the BI official said.
The couple was later brought to the BI Detention Facility in Camp Bagong Diwa, Taguig City where they are confined while undergoing deportation proceedings.
Singh will be charged for falsely stating that he was legally married to a Filipina when he applied for a resident visa while Kaur will be deported for being an undocumented alien.