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by Mr Rusty » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:16 am
You've been into all this before, and judging by your previous posts you are aware that you have to have lived together with your boyfriend in a relationship akin to marriage for at least 2 years for him to be regarded as an unmarried partner to qualify either under UK Immigration Rules or the EEA regulations. I think you said you'd only been together about 10 months.
A Civil Partnership is the formal commitment made by same-sex couples and is legally regarded as equivalent to marriage. I haven't the foggiest idea what the French PACS is, or whether it is something available to hetero- as well as same-sex partners. I don't think there's anything apart from marriage which qualifies male/female partners under immigration legislation in less than 2 years, but unless someone on this forum knows any better, you may have to ask the British Embassy what arrangements under French law are recognised for visa purposes.
Remember, a Civil Partnership is not the equivalent of "unmarried partners". Same-sex couples who've gone through a Civil Partnership ceremony have effectively got married.
