Marriage in another country

[swindonstu]

Please accept my apologies if this has been answered elsewhere. Searching came up nothing for me.

I'm very new to this forum, and indeed this very subject, so still very green.

My situation is this:

I have met someone online and we began on online relationship. We Skype almost daily and are in almost constant contact. We have yet to meet in person, but this is planned for October later this year. We are meeting in Turkey, because I am unable to visit her in her own country (Syria) due to current troubles.

If all goes well when we meet, we plan to marry and live here. I'm sooo happy about this!

I've been doing research however, and bringing her over on a fiancee visa would be problematic, due to the amount of physical time required to spend together.

Another option we are looking into would be marrying abroad Turkey again), then her coming back to the UK with me. Please understand we are not trying to circumvent procedures, but simply take the path of least resistance, and only then we are simply looking into what options are available.

I was wondering if anyone else had done something similar, and what lessons had been learned from it?

We are well aware of the financial requirements, as well as SELT testing for her (neither of which pose a problem).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to ask anything in order to help understand the full picture.

Thanks in advance!

[noajthan]

Please accept my apologies if this has been answered elsewhere. Searching came up nothing for me.

I'm very new to this forum, and indeed this very subject, so still very green.

My situation is this:

I have met someone online and we began on online relationship.

...

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to ask anything in order to help understand the full picture.

Thanks in advance!

My advice would be slow down, meet first (& then meet some more times).

[secret.simon]

My advice would be slow down, meet first (& then meet some more times).

+1

I have been down the road of meeting somebody online, liking them enough to invite them to the UK to visit me and then go on a Europe tour for about a month together. By the end of it, both of us could barely stand each other and would have gladly killed each other. Unsurprisingly, we mutually called it quits.

I think it is important in a situation like yours to stay together, with or without a chaperone, for a period of time, to see if it is worth investing further in this relationship. Once the relationship is on a firmer basis, then you look at settling in the UK.

Also be aware that there is a possibility, however remote it may seem, that you are being used for refugee/immigration purposes. Love is not just blind, but blinding.

[Wanderer]

My advice would be slow down, meet first (& then meet some more times).

+1

I have been down the road of meeting somebody online, liking them enough to invite them to the UK to visit me and then go on a Europe tour for about a month together. By the end of it, both of us could barely stand each other and would have gladly killed each other. Unsurprisingly, we mutually called it quits.

I think it is important in a situation like yours to stay together, with or without a chaperone, for a period of time, to see if it is worth investing further in this relationship. Once the relationship is on a firmer basis, then you look at settling in the UK.

Also be aware that there is a possibility, however remote it may seem, that you are being used for refugee/immigration purposes. Love is not just blind, but blinding.

+1

You can't base a relationship what what effectively is a penpal.

How old are you BTW?

[secret.simon]

You can't base a relationship what what effectively is a penpal.

How very Jane Austeneque.

[Casa]

You can't base a relationship what what effectively is a penpal.

How very Jane Austeneque.

Well after all, it makes good sense and sensibility.