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An Islamic wedding ceremony performed in the UK won't be recognised by HO. For immigration purposes, you are unmarried partners, which will likely be more difficult to get.This was approximately 13 years ago. We have been together ever since and had an Islamic wedding 6 years ago (but of course could not register this in the UK). We have forever put off sorting out her immigration status for fear of being apart after all this time, but would now like to do so, so we can spend the rest of our lives based in the UK but free to travel and not have this hanging over her heads.
Unless officially married in the UK or an Islamic wedding performed abroad, you won't be considered married.My question is the best way to proceed. Either both of us to return to her country of origin and submit an application or whether she should leave the UK by herself and submit an application and then I provide whatever documentation is necessary from here?
Yes it may be better but maybe her poor immigration history cause severe delays in application process.Rafathegaffer wrote: ↑Mon Feb 25, 2019 4:19 pmThanks for the reply.
So basically our only choice is to both return to her country and get married over there? And then begin the application process?
Sorry to disagree with your view - my experience in these cases is to refuse permission to marry. A pending outside the rules application is not going to convince the HO to allow the marriage particularly give the actual circumstances of this case.
Frontier Mole wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 1:46 pmSorry to disagree with your view - my experience in these cases is to refuse permission to marry. A pending outside the rules application is not going to convince the HO to allow the marriage particularly give the actual circumstances of this case.
But then again, what would I know
The above questions from Frontier Mole are relevant to the outcome of an application.Frontier Mole wrote: ↑Tue Feb 26, 2019 11:58 pmWhen was the last time she used NHS other than a just seeing a GP?
When was the last time she worked & it was declared to HMRC?
Does she hold a current driving licence?
If the dates for the above are after her period of leave under her previous spouse visa then he HO will be able to access the information- at that point the approach to granting any form of leave will be to refuse regardless of the HR grounds.