Punjab
parents becoming smarter to marry
their daughters to NRIs
Bad NRI boys make good NRI boys
suffer
Chandigarh, Dec. 04, 2005
Sukhbir Siwach
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
A tall, handsome and fat salary earning NRI Raj Pal
Sandhu has been camping in Mohali for two months waiting
for a matrimonial alliance. But, what he experiences
is harassment from alliance seekers. He has to reply
to a number of questions to confirm his credentials.
He even has to pull out his documents like green
card, salary slip and bank account to prove his status.
He is not alone. Amarinder and Gurvinder of the same
place have also been going through such experiences.
They had been told about this possibility before
all of them separately came to India looking for alliances,
yet they came, preferring an Indian match to a foreign
one...
...Rajpal said the reputation of NRIs seems to be
so poor because fraud cases involving them are reported
every day in Punjab. So, he said, people have started
rethinking about marrying their children to a dollar
earning NRI.
“I was asked to show my passport by one gentleman
here to make sure that I have a green card. My face
looked like a wedding cake left out in the rain. This
man crossed the limits of respect and even checked
my records from various departments using my name
and date of birth,’’ Raj Paul Sandhu, who
works as sales supervisor at a company in Sydney,
told TOC.
He said, “I completed my studies and filed my
onshore migration. After getting my permanent residency
or green card, I joined an international company as
an IT professional. I have my health insurance, full
time job work insurance and many other facilities''...
...Amarinder Singh said some other youths enter foreign
lands through illegal means. They first get married
to western women to get citizenship by paying huge
amounts of money or other arrangements.
“Sometimes western girls actually fall in love
with these butchers who only return to India and marry
again and go back. And they never call their wives
abroad. Such ladies have a big number in Punjab, 12,000
approximately,’’ he said.
While talking to TOC, UT ADC and marriage officer
Inderjit Singh Sandhu said on average one NRI marriage
is registered at Chandigarh every week.
