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| Visa application interview (Immigration Department file photo) |
A Filipina was sentenced today at Shatin Court to six months’ imprisonment suspended for 24 months after she pleaded guilty to three of four Immigration charges, where she was accused of lying to immigration officers.
Magistrate Pang Leung-ting handed six-month sentences to Ella
Marte Carable, 38 years old, for each of the charges of making a false
representation to an Immigration Assistant lawfully acting under or in the
execution of Part II of the Immigration Ordinance contrary to section 42(1)(a)
of the Immigration Ordinances.
He ordered that the three sentences run concurrently.
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Carable was cleared of the fourth similar charge, after the
prosecution withdrew the case in which she was accused of lying on April 26,
2024 to an Immigration assistant acting under or in the execution of Part II
[Immigration Arrival Examination) of the Immigration Ordinance where she
represented that she was working for Lee Yung Mee as a domestic helper.
The withdrawn case was similar to the first charge, in which
Carable was charged that she lied to an Immigration assistant on August 27,
2023 when she arrived in Hong Kong and she represented that she was working for
Lee Yung Mee as a domestic helper.
In the second charge, she was accused lying to an Immigration
officer processing her extension of stay on August 6, 2024 when she represented
that her employment contract with Lee Yung Mee would be terminated on August 29,
2024.
In the third charge, Carable was accused of lying on August
28, 2024 to an Immigration officer lawfully acting under or in the execution of
Part III [Extension of stay) of the Immigration Ordinance, when she represented
that her employment contract with Lee Yung Mee would be terminated on August 29,
2024.
