Chinese woman jailed for using fake documents to bring child into New Zealand
New Zealand immigration office in Hong Kong raised red flag on baby’s documents
A New Zealand resident who provided false documents to immigration officers to try bring a child that was not hers into New Zealand has been jailed for three years and nine months.
Haiyan Luo, 46, was sentenced in the Waitakere District Court today to 26 months’ imprisonment after pleading guilty to 17 charges of providing false or misleading information about the birth of a child to an immigration officer.
The businesswoman was also sentenced to a further 19 months for tax evasion charges.
Luo, a Chinese national who was granted residency in 2000, sponsored her Chinese husband for residency in 2008 after marrying him.
Her husband’s application was delayed and in 2012 they told Immigration NZ they had a son in China and asked for it to be added to the father’s application for residency.
Immigration New Zealand’s Hong Kong Office raised a red flag about the identity documents relating to the baby and Luo’s medical care and birth of the baby and it was investigated.