Hey people.. my wife happened to meet a guy in Canada who works in the Immigration Department while she was hunting for an apartment. This meeting was an eye opener for us because he says there are a lot of ‘marriages of convenience', particularly with regards to applicants from India. It seems they detected nearly 50 such cases in the past two months, and even deported a few of them!! They were able to detect one such case when they found the same groom's pictures in two applications, but with different brides!!!
Perhaps this could be reason that the CIC is being extremely cautious; however the downside is that a few genuine cases like ours have to bear the brunt of such fraudster's actions.