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Unlawful migration to greener pastures by producing forged travel papers continued as two leading airlines referred their suspicious passengers with bogus documents to the immigration authorities at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) during the weekend.
Two Sri Lankan males who tried to migrate to Canada and Italy with suspicious travel documents had been intercepted by their airlines and were referred to the Department of Immigration and Emigration to learn that the papers were not genuine.
A 43-year-old man from Valvettithurai, Jaffna had tried to take a SriLankan Airlines flight to Dubai to head to Canada on Saturday, when the flight ground staff had felt suspicious about his documents, the sources said.
He was referred to the BIA immigration authorities and the validity of his papers was examined by the Border Surveillance Unit (BSU) to find he was having a forged Canadian visa pasted on his passport. However, his local passport was genuine.
Meanwhile, a 30-year-old man from Kolonna who had tried to leave the country on a Qatar Airways flight was referred to the airport immigration authorities by the airline staff, as the Italian PR card (permanent resident) he was having looked dodgy.
The officials at BSU found that the Italian PR card had been forged. The suspect had tried to leave Sri Lanka by using his genuine local passport, whilst the authorities found a forged passport also in his possession.
A senior Immigration official told the Daily Mirror that these passengers had paid a fortune to get these forged documents done through brokers, yet with the least knowledge that they could be detected through high-tech data systems at the BIA.
The suspects were detained for further inquiries. (Kurulu Koojana Kariyakarawana)
Massdeen Monday, 25 September 2023 06:16 AM
They all leaving the country as there no future here in SL, they hv paid a fortune for it, the immigration should let them go, they not making or disturbing the rest, let them go live a peaceful life in another country
Business as usual for bogus document suppliers Monday, 25 September 2023 09:09 AM
Will the bogus document suppliers be sentenced for fleecing these passengers? Or is it business as usual for them/
Lanka Monday, 25 September 2023 09:47 AM
This shows a failure of this government to secure jobs and employment to these people and they are desperate to leave the country by any means..people are living in desperate conditions now and they want to leave the country as soon as possible to escape hardship and difficulties... Families can't feed their children.. How could some live with 15000 handouts given by the government.. Inflation and high price hike all make people to leave . Please find alternatives for our economic crisis . When government fails on people they take some alternative ways to migrate .some are Lucky enough to migrate officially with the money they have but not all. Money make money Fortune make fortune. Desperation makes more desperation.. So government must help these people . Make our immigration simple and easy to migrate
Rondy Monday, 25 September 2023 01:29 PM
It's hilarious to read the mindset of some people who bring ridiculous comments. Anyone can leave if they wish to do so but with proper documents. Otherwise whole visa process in meaningless. No government is at fault for stopping them at the air port for not producing genuine documents. We have to accept the fact SL passport is not recognised for free travel to all countries.
Mandayan Monday, 25 September 2023 01:30 PM
They cleared the immigration before boarding it seems, they checked at the gate!!
Air Hostess Monday, 25 September 2023 01:41 PM
How did these passengers get through the immigration and to be later detected by the Airlines?
Cherath Monday, 25 September 2023 04:10 PM
The Immigration Counter need to be thoroughly investigated. If not for the detection by the airlines gate, anyone with a dodgy Visa or PR stamp could bolt off. There must be countless dodgy dealings from immigration and customs to baggage clearance at BIA.
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