Indian Marrying Italian in UK

Hi All,
This website is really useful.Can anyone please advice me?

I am an indian working in UK on a workpermit visa in london.My girl friend who is an italian living in italy.We would like to get marry in UK.But i will be going back to india in 2 months time since my work contract ends here and should work in india.So its risky to apply COA, since it may take more than 2 months.
So we decided to get marry in Anglican church.My questions are?

* I am an Hindu and my gf is an catholic.Can we able to marry in anglican church or do we need to convert ourself?

* Can we marry any place where the Italian government recognises our marriage, so i can apply italian spouse visa and using that csan come to UK.

Thanks in advance

“* Can we marry any place where the Italian government recognises our marriage, so i can apply italian spouse visa and using that csan come to UK. “

Yes, you can marry even in India. You both can do Indian Register marriage for that nobody needs to convert. Just apply from your Indian home town register office and you both need to sign at register with two witnesses. Both should be over 21 /18.


In my case my hubby is French and I am Indian. We married in India and got my Family Permit in UKBA Chennai thru VFS. And came to UK, got my RC. My point is there is no problem for UKBA accepting Indian register marriage.

Another point there is no need to Italian Government recognises your marriage as far as getting Family permit from UK embassy.

Note: we have registered our wedding with French embassy as well after we arrived to UK. This is not relevant to visa.