BY DENISE MAYCOCK
Tribune Freeport Reporter
dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
A Haitian couple was arrested at Lucayan Harbour by immigration officials in Grand Bahama after it was discovered that they had fraudulent US visas in their passports.
A third person was also arrested in connection with the incident.
According to reports, the couple was attempting to travel aboard the Balearia to Port Everglades, Florida when the agents discovered that their visas were fraudulent and notified Bahamas immigration officials and police.
Napthali Cooper, public relations officer at the Department of Immigration, reported that the Haitian male entered the Bahamas from Haiti on a Bahamian visa in May 2015 and was admitted for a period of one week. Mr Cooper said he never sought to further his visitor’s stay by getting an extension.
The woman claimed to have entered the Bahamas illegally by boat from Haiti in 2006 and remained in the country without legal status. The couple flew to Freeport from Nassau on board a Bahamasair flight.
The pair and a third individual were taken into custody, processed at the Department of Immigration and transferred to New Providence to the Detention Centre to await repatriation, officials said.
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