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Hi Casa,Casa wrote:Officially, the Home Office do not permit someone who has entered on a visitor visa to marry while they are in the UK. However, under recent tightening of the Regulations, technically you can give notice (only) to marry at a Home Office designated Registry Office but the Registrar has a legal obligation to notify the authorities when the marriage involves a foreign national. This means that the Home Office can extend the notice period from 28 to 70 days and interview you both before the marriage can take place. The interview may not go well if your 'girlfriend' has entered on a visitor visa with the possible intention of marrying while she is here.
You could apply for a marriage visitor visa but:
1. You would be expected to have met in person.
2. This would assume that you have already made the decision to marry within 6 months of the visa issue date.
3. She would have to leave the UK before the expiry of the visa and wouldn't be able to switch to any other category from within the UK.
As an additional point for future reference, do you earn a minimum of £18,600 per annum?
nemo999 wrote:Hi Casa,Casa wrote:Officially, the Home Office do not permit someone who has entered on a visitor visa to marry while they are in the UK. However, under recent tightening of the Regulations, technically you can give notice (only) to marry at a Home Office designated Registry Office but the Registrar has a legal obligation to notify the authorities when the marriage involves a foreign national. This means that the Home Office can extend the notice period from 28 to 70 days and interview you both before the marriage can take place. The interview may not go well if your 'girlfriend' has entered on a visitor visa with the possible intention of marrying while she is here.
You could apply for a marriage visitor visa but:
1. You would be expected to have met in person.
2. This would assume that you have already made the decision to marry within 6 months of the visa issue date.
3. She would have to leave the UK before the expiry of the visa and wouldn't be able to switch to any other category from within the UK.
As an additional point for future reference, do you earn a minimum of £18,600 per annum?
Thanks for the prompt reply, Yes I do earn more then £18,600 ( I am director and 100% shareholder of my limited company , annual turnover about 100K)
So based on the response, I think,
a) I should meet her in UK , see if we genuinely like each other in real world.....if yes,
b) take proof (photos and shopping / restaurant receipts ? visit to tourist attraction tickets? ) that we have met in person and let her go back to her home country.
c) Then after some time, apply for UK marriage visitor visa for her Better to apply for a fiance visa & she won't need to leave the UK after the wedding, but would switch to spouse from here on form FLR(M).
d) She will travel to UK on marriage visitor and we serve the notice of intention marriage in local council in UK. See answer C
e) let home-office do their job properly (i.e. satisfy the relationship is genuine) Not applicable if entered on a fiance visa
f) if they (council +UKVI) say yes, get married here in UK. If they say no, go to India and get married there. See answer e
g) If we get married in UK, she goes back to India and applies for dependent visa and return on dependent visa. See answer C
h) If we get married in India, she applies for dependent visa in India and join me in UK on dependent visa. If you marry in India, she would apply for a spouse settlement visa VAF4a
How does this sound? I know its not the most straight forward solution but more of a realistic plan?
Do we agree?