Hello,

[mahmoodshahid]

i am a visiter here and working in airline field. this is my second visit. both time i took six month visit visa. i have a girlfriend here. every time i came here to see her. now i came here in uk one week ago. now we both planing to marry. my visa remaining for four months. i just need to know, is it possible to get marry in this period and visa. please advice me all procedure.
if you need any other information please inform me.

looking forword to you.

thankyou.

mahmood.

[John]

From the fact that you have a visitor's visa I presume that you are not an EEA Citizen.

If you have an "ordinary" visitor's visa then the bad news for you is that it is impossible for you to marry in the UK. Technically you could apply for a Certificate of Approval but the guidance notes issued by the Home Office indicate that anyone in your circumstances will get refused. So save the application fee ... don't even think about applying for a Certificate of Approval.

Alternatively, if you have a "Marriage Visitor's Visa", then ignore the previous paragraph ... you can indeed go along to a Register Office and give Notice of Intention to Marry .... and then subsequently get married in the UK. Of course you will appreciate that those granted a Marriage Visitor's Visa need to show that they will leave the UK after the marriage in the UK has happened. Such a visa gives no long-term settlement right, or even access in the UK to applying for such a settlement visa.

You and your fiancée ... what is your long-term intention? Yes, to get married, but then what? Where do the two of you intend to live? If in the UK, you need to go back to your own country and apply for a fiancé visa there, then come back to the UK, and get married in the UK, then apply in the UK for a spouse visa. Alternatively, if the two of you marry outside the UK, then you could apply for a spouse visa abroad and then come back to the UK.