Marriage Visa for a 10 years overstayer-please advice

[Alexa-Fatou]

Hi,

I am new to this site and as i was looking for information for a little while which I have found very helpful, I could not find any case like ours(myself and my future husband). I am a national of Romania exercising a treaty right in the Uk. . My concern is mainly my future husband who I have met 1 year ago. He is from Saint Lucia and came on a student Visa but then overstayed, altogether are 10 years now, so he has been legally and illegally in this country for 10 years. Of course we love each other very much and want to make a life together (marriage, have children and so on) but for this we would very much appreciate any advice since we want to take the right steps to succeed. I understood that we cannot get married here, so he could not apply for a Spousal Visa while he is still in the UK? :?:

Any advice would be very much appreciated.

Many Thanks.

[Wanderer]

How r u exercising a treaty right?

[Alexa-Fatou]

treaty right means free to come to the United Kingdom to live(free from immigration control, study and be a self-employed.i am currently studying full-time

[ElenaW]

No he can't stay and apply for a spousal visa as you would be using the EU route I imagine.

[Alexa-Fatou]

Elena thank you for your response, but could you please be more explicit regarding the EU route?

[Wanderer]

treaty right means free to come to the United Kingdom to live(free from immigration control, study and be a self-employed.i am currently studying full-time

I know what treaty right means thanks.

As u r studying that's fine I think ur ok to marry but u will both need to apply for a CoA, approval to marry, currently free but may well alert the authorities to ur future spouses overstay and facilitate a wedding-day removal. It's been done before.

If u get past that u should be ok.

[Alexa-Fatou]

Wanderer, I would like to apologise if I created the wrong impression, I am sure you knew what a treaty right means (you are a Guru!) I have just expressed myself the wrong way since i thought there might be other people who do not know what a treaty right is.

Thank you very much for the information. I personally think that we would be taking a very high risk doing so. I am not sure what else we could do...less risky I mean

[Plum70]

As a full-time student doesn't the OP also need to have Comprehensive Sickness Insurance covering her and (future) spouse?