Wonderful: Canada Is Allowing Webcam Proxy Marriages Between 1st Cousins From Pakistan

Married by video chat? Come to Canada!

The men are sponsored to Canada by their wives. The cases “involve arranged marriages amongst Muslims, the vast majority of which take place between first cousins,” O’Brien told Ottawa in March 2012.

She said most of the couples getting hitched have never met. They are married by an imam on the phone or webcam with the couples being in different countries.
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The toll of Muslim Pakistani 1st Cousin Marriage in the UK