Has anyone been fooled into marrying someone for a visa to stay here?

[mpeters82]

Hi all

I'm just asking on behalf of a friend she known a guy a few months but he moving things so fast. He wants marriage and he hinted about moving in with her and her.
She did really like him at first but she realized something was not right about him so told him no. He still message and she found herself giving him another try. She had to tell her friends she ended it. I told my friend be very careful and she better off without him.
So she found herself getting drawn in to him again maybe because it's a long time she has had that sort of thing with a guy.
I have spoken to her tonight and she has decided to play along as she could be wrong. She is a bit distant she feels he changed a bit as she told him how she feels.
I am worried as she says she likes him too much now to let him go so she is playing along and waiting to see if she can get to the bottom of this. If it's true she told she will block him for good and report him. I told her be very careful.
Any advice on what to tell her? I mean I feel he after visa and she like torn. She feels she should block him tonight. What should she do? She been crying as she thought he was a nice guy.

you do not get a visa automatically on marrying a uk citizen

it is actually not a piece of piss to immigrate to the UK especially from outside the EU, this is all part of the ‘hostile environment’ and goes back to when Theresa May was Home Secretary

if you want to marry a non EU person and bring them to live in the UK you will need to prove a certain level of income first

all of this information is very readily accessible online, I wonder what people’s motivation is in spreading lies about ‘shifty foreigners taking advantage of poor brits to get visas’

Oh I wonder indeed

He would not automatically get residency by marriage or recourse to public funds. If she senses lots of red flags there will be some foundation. What visa is he currently on?

Your friend is enjoying the chase it isgiving her a bit of excitement and an ego boost she isn't stringing him along as she thinks I would leave her to the drama. I know somebody who has also married an egyptian she met on holiday he is a waiter obviously she commutes between here and egypt but he never comes with her apparently.

Why do people keep going on about marriage visa not being automatic? Do you think they don't know that?🙄. That's why the long game is played - do all by the book stay until you're granted 2 years temporarily - after which Life Test and make application for ILR.

It's not that difficult to get ILR via marriage especially if he goes back to his own country and she marries him from there, then brings him here with no recourse to public funds. It's equally as possible as impossible, stop believing the Tory 'hardline' on immigration which most know is a pisstake anyway

Immigration is big business not least for lawyers & Home Office. Money comes 1st here.

In this case tho it's going nowhere as it sounds like a man here on a temporary visa spinning a line, looking for a link to a woman who'll bring him back to the UK when necessary.

On the other hand maybe he does like her. Who knows. Your friend seems to be into the drama of it all and she likely isn't the only one..

yes although things worked out amazingly for her now with someone new she was heartbroken and in financal mess because of it. Non EU citizen totally used her for money and a visa - money he got already but he got deported once he buggered off and left her for other women after 2 months of being in the U.K. we could all see it but she wouldn’t

She blocked him but she told him her ex was threatening etc. Which is true too
Well she sounds like she attracts assholes!

Tell her to contact Womens Aid 0808 2000 247 and to enrole on their Freedom Programme.
She really needs to spot red flags far quicker than this.

Its really difficult to get a visa even if you are married, Ds is still waiting for his wife (they married early June in the US) to get hers to come here.
They have had a 10 year relationship, and the visa is costing in the region of $ 4,000.
Then theres all the having to prove its a real relationship, just being "married" means nothing as far as I am aware.

As someone who’s here on a marriage visa, it’s not a pisstake — it’s five years and thousands of pounds. I love my husband. That’s why I’m doing it, even though it’s stressful and, after Brexit, a complete waste of time and money. Everyone who spreads this BS about how easy it is and how every foreigner must be after a UK passport is full of shite, and clearly has never spoken at length to anyone involved in the process.

I can confirm it's not a pisstake also!! Still waiting for our decision 3 years and £thousands after our first application!

All far too vauge a post. Dont see what the op hopes to get out of it besides raising the pearl clutching fear of foreigners inviding from Nigeria to dupe unsuspecring vulnerable english women.