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Has anyone got married purely for migration reasons?

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lemonsandgingerbeer · 20/06/2021 13:04

NC as it's a very outing situation! I'm British, with Spanish residence for the last 4 years.

My DP of 5 years is Spanish and Danish - he has Spanish citizenship and lives here, but his mother lives in Denmark with two of his sisters.

His mother's getting very ill on a regular basis, and so we're looking at ways to support her in her old age. This is likely to mean him spending significant chunks of time in Denmark, and potentially moving there full-time at some point.

Thanks to Brexit, however, I'm now only able to be in Denmark for 90 days in every 180, which means we're potentially going to be separated for long periods of time. We wouldn't want to move to Denmark full-time, partly because of his daughter who still lives here in Spain, and partly because of Denmark's high taxation.

He's jokingly suggested we get married so I can piggyback on his status, and although we've just laughed about it, it's also taken up residence in my head as potentially an actual idea.

We're not going to have children, so we've never had any particular reason to think about getting married until now. We'd happily spend the rest of our lives together; that's not the question.

Although it's still at the jokey stage, I wondered what other people's experiences have been of this kind of thing? What should we think about if we decide to go ahead with it? Is it totally ridiculous?

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