A Hong Kong man has been jailed 22 months by the District Court for an immigration scam.

He was sentenced today after pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy to obtain services by deception.

In April 2010, immigration investigators at the airport intercepted a male Mainlander as he was about to board a flight to Vancouver. He produced a forged Hong Kong SAR passport, a forged Hong Kong identity card, and a boarding pass in the name of the defendant for inspection.

In October 2010, another male Mainlander was deported from Taipei to Hong Kong for using a forged HKSAR passport at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport. Upon his return to Hong Kong, he was found to possess a forged HKSAR passport, a forged Hong Kong identity card and a boarding pass for a flight from Taipei to Toronto that all bore the name of the defendant.

The two Mainlanders each pleaded guilty to one count of making false representation to an Immigration Officer, one count of possession of a forged travel document and one count of possession of a forged identity card.

They were each sentenced to a total of 12 months' imprisonment in May and November 2010 at Sha Tin Magistracy.

After further investigation, the defendant was arrested in September 2011. Under caution, he admitted he had presented his HKSAR passport to airline staff for check-in formalities in April 2010 at Hong Kong International Airport and in October 2010 at Macau International Airport.

He then gave the two boarding passes to the middleman which would be used by others for illegal migration purposes, and was paid $5,000 and $7,000.