This could go here or on the Tier 4 board but think here might be better, very much need some opinions and advice on this (bit long) story...
Our family are friends with a girl originally from Pakistan who settled in the UK after an arranged marriage to a cousin. She suffered years of abuse from the husband but finally escaped and divorced a couple of years ago. We helped her in setting up a new home and life. She has no other family but her mother in Pakistan.
Recently we assisted her with a family visit visa application for her mother, with the girl as sponsor, which was successful. The single stated purpose of the visit was them just spending time together, as they missed each other so much.
Within a week of the mother arriving and to our shock, the girl told us she was to be married again. All along the mother had been making the arrangements with the intended groom’s family in Pakistan, and on arrival immediately started finalising things here.
The groom himself is here on a Tier 4 student visa. He is meant to be a postgraduate student in Manchester, but has been living 200+ miles away in Glasgow with his relatives. He also regularly works in two shops there, likely to be full time but unlikely to be documented. His actual attendance in Manchester is unknown, he has an address there for post and official purposes, and says he goes back and forth every so often by train, doing course work by email.
The girl tells us he just didn’t like Manchester, missed being around family, has no real interest in study and just wants to work. If he doesn’t marry her he has “other optionsâ€
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