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whitegrim
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Post by whitegrim » Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:55 am

I entered UK on the student visa but I got married to a Czech women right after. I got five years of the spouse visa but unfortunately we got divorced after 6 months.
Now will this divorce impact on my five year visa???

Also will these five years count towards my total five years required for ILR since I was basically not in the required relationship???

Also can I marry again on the same five years visa with someone else????

I will be very thankful for the information.

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Re: Dependent of the citizen of EU

Post by meats » Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:58 am

whitegrim wrote:I entered UK on the student visa but I got married to a Czech women right after. I got five years of the spouse visa but unfortunately we got divorced after 6 months.
Now will this divorce impact on my five year visa???

Also will these five years count towards my total five years required for ILR since I was basically not in the required relationship???

Also can I marry again on the same five years visa with someone else????

I will be very thankful for the information.
If you're on a spouse visa in the UK and divorced then you're currently here illegally.

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Re: Dependent of the citizen of EU

Post by Wanderer » Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:15 pm

meats wrote:
whitegrim wrote:I entered UK on the student visa but I got married to a Czech women right after. I got five years of the spouse visa but unfortunately we got divorced after 6 months.
Now will this divorce impact on my five year visa???

Also will these five years count towards my total five years required for ILR since I was basically not in the required relationship???

Also can I marry again on the same five years visa with someone else????

I will be very thankful for the information.
If you're on a spouse visa in the UK and divorced then you're currently here illegally.
You can;t divorce after six months, needs to be a year.

If on EEA rules as it appears, you need to be married three years, one in UK, so by either means you're illegal here now.

Marry again? Sounds like another probable marriage of convenience?
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Post by Mr Rusty » Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:23 pm

If you have a "5-year visa" I assume that it's not a "spouse visa" under UK Immigration Rules, but a Residence Card acquired as an EEA Family Member.
For you to retain your rights as an EEA Family member you would have to have been married for 3 years, and have spent at least 1 of those years together in the UK. So you are unlikely to qualify for Permanent Residence (not ILR) at the end of 5 years.
If you remain in the UK you are not "here illegally" as suggested in the previous post. There are provisions in the EEA Regulations for the removal of people who cease to be "qualified persons" but they are difficult to apply and currently little used. However, if UKBA are aware that your marriage was dissolved after such a short time you might be suspected of having contracted a "marriage of convenience", and your residence cancelled. It is extremely unlikely that you would be able to sponsor someone else as their husband.

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