Dear all, this is the first time I have posted. Having just discovered this forum I hope someone may be able to advise or at least give me some words of hope and support.
My husband is Nepali, we met 2 yrs ago and married in Kathmandu in April this year. We followed the Embassy's 'getting married in Nepal' criteria to the letter. My husband applied for his settlement visa, as my husband (I am a British citizen born, bred and always having lived in the UK). The visa was refused, stating the ECO accepted he had provided a marriage document but she did not believe he was single at the time of our marriage and therefore did not accept he was legally married to someone present and settled in the UK.
Polygamy is illegal in Nepal and my husband had to prove his single status before we were married, in accordance with Nepali law. Therefore our marriage certificate (in Nepali and English) in itself proves he was single and free to marry me. Since this refusal we have obtained the certified copies of the documents provided at the civil wedding proving my husbands eligibility to marry, we submitted them with the appeal along with our arguments against the ECOs refusal. The refusal has been maintained and we now have a date for the court hearing in 7 weeks time.
Any words of wisdom???Please. In anticipation of a reply, thank you. There was a reason the ECO could query the single status but as I have stated we did all that was required to refute this claim.
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