Unrecognised Wife as Tier 1 Entrepreneur Partner

[OmoNija]

Dear All,

I hereby appreciate the good works of the Moderators and frequent contributors here. I have searched through this medium for an answer to my question which I found none, therefore I decided to post it. From what I have read here, a second marriage contracted outside the UK is not recognized in UK.

Now, to my question. Is a Tier 1 Entrepreneur partnership between the man and his unrecognized wife (second wife) allowable for the GBP 200,000 route? And I guess the children from the second wife would be allowed as her eligible dependents while the first wife (with no children below 18 years) would be recognized as the man's dependent.

[marcnath]

Dear All,

I hereby appreciate the good works of the Moderators and frequent contributors here. I have searched through this medium for an answer to my question which I found none, therefore I decided to post it. From what I have read here, a second marriage contracted outside the UK is not recognized in UK.

Now, to my question. Is a Tier 1 Entrepreneur partnership between the man and his unrecognized wife (second wife) allowable for the GBP 200,000 route? And I guess the children from the second wife would be allowed as her eligible dependents while the first wife (with no children below 18 years) would be recognized as the man's dependent.

Since the second marriage is not recognised here, you would be applying as two separate individuals. So I don't see anything that would explicitly prevent you from being an entrepreneurial team (which is the term, not partners).
Obviously both of you will be potentially subject to interviews and would need to convince HO that both are genuine entrepreneurs. As to children for second wife being eligible dependants, that will be possibly only if she has sole custody. So you would have to provide some legal documents for that.

[OmoNija]

@marcnath

I appreciate your opinion.
Thank you.