UK 2 yr Spouse Visa & Divorce

[justsomeone]

I am a UK citizen and have been married to a non UK citizen for just over one year (he is also not from Europe). We were granted a spouse visa this year, for a 2 yr period.

Things are not good in our marriage and I have found out that my husband has been calling Immigration Lawyers, although I do not know why. I am guessing he is finding out what his options are if we seperate, if he can leave me whilst still on his spouse visa, if he can divorce etc, because there is no other reason for him to be calling an immigration lawyer.

I would also like to know where I stand. I have the feeling that he may be having some kind of affair (due to a few things that have happened in the past) and I now have the feeling that he may have only married me for the spouse visa in the hope of it leading to ILR. He is not nice to me, shouts, abuses me verbally, treats me like cr*p etc. So, I have pretty much come to the conclusion that this was his game plan.

I would like to know..... can he divorce me whilst on the 2 yr spouse visa and then remarry someone else and apply for another spouse visa while still in OUR 2 yr period?

Can he leave me or divorce me without his visa being effected? Will the home office curtail his visa? Will he be asked to leave if he does leave me or divorce me before the 2 yr spouse visa runs out?

He is pretty much a compulsive liar and I am thinking he might try to divorce me on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour or something similar. Not that I have done anything to him, I just know that he has a friend who married a girl for ILR then divorced her on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour and he is the one who gave my husband the Immigration Lawyers phone number.

I need some advice. He is the one with unreasonable behaviour. He is emotionally and verbally abusive, he has been unfaithful online, he has generally been awful and our marriage is a wreck. I have footage and proof of his unreasonable behaviour and a lot of witnesses who have seen it all first hand. I am suffering severe anxiety and stress because of everything he has done to me and has put me through - and it is now worse because of what I think he is up to at the moment with the immigration lawyers etc. Things are not good and he always shouts and tells me that I am unreasonable. It is natural for a woman to feel distrustful and hurt after her husband having an online affair. It has caused a lot of arguments and I just have this horrible feeling that he may try to use that as "unreasonable behaviour" - even though it was all caused by him!

I need to know where I stand because if he is going to take some kind of action, I would also like to take my own and know what I'm doing.


Thanks in advance.

[Kitty]

If the relationship has broken down, and you want to separate from him, then you can call the UKBA and tell them that the marriage is no longer subsisting. They may then curtail his visa (although they won't tell you what action they take).

He can't marry someone else until he actually has a divorce from you, so in practical terms, his visa is likely to run out before a divorce is final: if he wants to come to the UK to marry someone else, he'll probably have to leave and apply to come back.

Do you have any kids together?

If you want advice on separation and divorce, consult your local Citizens Advice Bureau or a family law solicitor.

Best of luck.

[mochyn]

As he is on a spousal visa he has limited leave to remain and he needs your support to gain his ILR after which he no longer needs you to remain in this country.
If your marriage has broken down inform the UKBA and they will refuse him the ILR and require him to leave when his 2 year visa is expired but they will NOT tell you anything

[emmajt]

Hi,

I was also in the same situation i reported my husband to the ukba september after he arrived august last year in uk, figured him out as soon as he got here that he was just after a visa. he moved to a different town i applied for a divorce, he did not want to sign but eventually did in december 2014 finally had it completed this month, UKBA wrote to him at my address to advise that they was curltailing his visa from july 2015 he has now dissapeard to yet another town so if i was you act fast and get him to sign the divorce and get shut of him, not worth your pain xx

[WR1]

Hi,

I was also in the same situation i reported my husband to the ukba september after he arrived august last year in uk, figured him out as soon as he got here that he was just after a visa. he moved to a different town i applied for a divorce, he did not want to sign but eventually did in december 2014 finally had it completed this month, UKBA wrote to him at my address to advise that they was curltailing his visa from july 2015 he has now dissapeard to yet another town so if i was you act fast and get him to sign the divorce and get shut of him, not worth your pain xx

You do realise that this thread is four years old! (from 2011)