Where do we stand?

[CraigO 0]

If my SO and I get married here in England?

What I mean is, if we want to relocate to the States how do we do that? Is it possible?

[gwenneh 7]

Your SO is a US Citizen?

[thesnowman 1]

My SO is an american citizen and was over on a visitor visa. We tried to get married over here and then apply for a spouses visa for america. However we found that we could not get married in the UK because the UK goverment brough in a rule banning anyone not a resident from marrying. You have to enter the country on a fiancee visa or a special wedding visa or get married in a Church of England church.

www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind/en/home/news/press_releases/getting_married_in/new_rules_for_getting.html

However this was recently challanged in the European court of human rights and the immigrants won, so this law might be repealed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4894544.stm

We ended up applying for K1 fiance visa.

[motu 5]

Wow! You can't get married in UK! That's way too strange but I don't know about that part. If you can get married then you can look at the DCF or K3 filing options. I am not sure if DCF is available or not and whether you qualify or not but K3 is available - if you do get married. If not then you can look at the K1 route. Good Luck

[gwenneh 7]

Wow! You can't get married in UK! That's way too strange but I don't know about that part. If you can get married then you can look at the DCF or K3 filing options. I am not sure if DCF is available or not and whether you qualify or not but K3 is available - if you do get married. If not then you can look at the K1 route. Good Luck

DCF is available in the UK if both parties are resident and settled in the UK (meaning the USC has to have their indefinite leave to remain).

[Kajikit 65]

My SO is an american citizen and was over on a visitor visa. We tried to get married over here and then apply for a spouses visa for america. However we found that we could not get married in the UK because the UK goverment brough in a rule banning anyone not a resident from marrying. You have to enter the country on a fiancee visa or a special wedding visa or get married in a Church of England church.

www.ind.homeoffice.gov.uk/ind/en/home/news/press_releases/getting_married_in/new_rules_for_getting.html

However this was recently challanged in the European court of human rights and the immigrants won, so this law might be repealed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4894544.stm

We ended up applying for K1 fiance visa.

What an incredibly short-sighted and discriminatory law! That one won't last five seconds in court because of the exemption for one particular group of people while saying everyone else is faking it... you can't expect to have one law for one group and an entirely different one for everyone else, especially on such an arbitrary grounds as religion!