Siaw Yong Chuong holds a picture of his Vietnamese girlfriend
IPOH: Hopes of a chef to marry his seven-month pregnant Vietnamese girlfriend in four days may not materialise as she has been detained by immigration officers.
Siaw Yong Chuong, 33, said he was supposed to marry Nguyen Thi Tuyen, 24 on Wednesday but the latter is now detained at the Manjung Immigration centre.
Nguyen is alleged to have falsified her social visit pass.
Siaw claimed that Nguyen had gone to the Manjung District Immigration office on July 2 to extend her pass, only to be told to return the next day.
When she did so, Nguyen was detained because the officers claimed that fraud had taken place in her previous extension.
“I paid an agent by the name of “Siau Yu” RM350 to renew my girlfriend’s social visit pass then.
“How are we supposed to know that he had cheated us? Now the officers refuse to investigate the agent and keep insisting that my girlfriend needs to be deported back to Vietnam,” he told a press conference organised by Beruas MP Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham.
Siaw said he was told that his girlfriend was sent to the Langkap detention centre on Friday before being deported to Vietnam.
“I will be facing a lot of problems if my child is born in Vietnam.
“I hope the police and the department will investigate the agent before taking the drastic move of sending my future wife back to Vietnam,” he added.
When contacted, state Immigration Department director Ahmad Syam Che Kub said the social visit pass stamp on Nguyen's passport was fake and that she could be charged under immigration laws.
“When it comes to matters regarding social visit passes, visas and permits, it is better for the individual carry out the task personally instead of trusting runners and illegal agents,” he said.
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