A Mainland woman has been jailed for a year by Sha Tin Magistracy for fraud.

She was sentenced today after pleading guilty to lying to an immigration officer and attempting to obtain services by deception.

The Immigration Department found the 28-year-old married a Hong Kong permanent resident in May last year and obtained the Confirmation Certificate on Delivery Booking from a private hospital for child birth.

She was intercepted at China Ferry Terminal on December 12, and showed the certificate to an immigration officer, saying she had come to visit her husband. She claimed the husband was the natural father of her expected baby.

The department doubted the woman’s claim and refused her entry.

In a subsequent investigation she admitted the natural father of her baby was her Mainland ex-husband, proving she falsely told immigration officers that her resident husband was the natural father to gain entry into Hong Kong.

She also admitted to telling the same lie to the private hospital when reserving the confinement services to facilitate her delivery in Hong Kong.