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by Obie » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:49 pm
I agree with Casa. On the one hand the ECO might take a view that you stated you intend on getting married within six months, that is why you applied for that visa and was issued with it, for that purpose. However, there are circumstance wherein people are unable to get married within that time frame, for example decree absolute took longer than expected to get finalised, or financial or familial reasons. However this Fiance Visa can be extended in country for a futher 6 months, in the first possible scenerio i mentioned, i am unsure of the rest.
There is nothing in the Immigration rules that provided for your Spouse to be refused because you did not get married within the period you were expected to. So long as you can give them a valid reason, why the marriage did not take place, so that they don't think you sought to deliberatly deceive them.
Then again, they will have to assess why someone would want to obtain a very expensive visa, which confers no other benefit other than the right to get married in the UK, and allow for a Spouse visa application to be lodged in country, simply to deceive an ECO.
It is certainly not something that is worth loosing sleep over, except of course you think they could read something else into it, like previous refusal under Paragraph 320(7A) of the immigration rules, and you used this route simply to get the protection provided in 7C against 7B.
What it will do is, give them more reason to scrutinise your application more closely. But if the marriage is indeed genuine, they cannot refuse you a visa, simply on a previous abuse of that nature.
But with British Immigration, you just cannot tell. You never know what they can come up with from their wonder bag.
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