Prospective Unmarried Visa

[Wanderer]

gf is here now on UK proper degree course, but now we've found out as part of her course she needs to spend her next year abroad, in Germany.

Well thats fine in itself, but it buggers up our plan of applying for unmarried partners visa, since when she goes she will have only been here one year.

Of course she will still have her visa for here, multi entry (if FLR(S) is ok!) so we would be seeing each other regularly, at the odd weekend etc, but this won't feel much like a provable 'relationship akin to marriage' so will set our counter back to zero.

Unless I go with her.

So, what's the SP?

Steve, learning German just incase......

[John]

so we would be seeing each other regularly, at the odd weekend etc, but this won't feel much like a provable 'relationship akin to marriage' so will set our counter back to zero.

Is that a statement or a question? The fact is that in many genuine married couple situations the couple spend quite a bit of time apart because of things like work commitments. For example, if one of the couple goes to work as a Security Guard in Iraq for three months does that mean that the couple stop being in a married couple relationship? Of course not.

However it is still a question of proving to the person dealing with the application for an UPV that the relationship is indeed like marriage.

Also, is marriage out of the question? If that is possible sometime in the foreseeable future then the question of an UPV becomes redundant.

[Wanderer]

so we would be seeing each other regularly, at the odd weekend etc, but this won't feel much like a provable 'relationship akin to marriage' so will set our counter back to zero.

Is that a statement or a question? The fact is that in many genuine married couple situations the couple spend quite a bit of time apart because of things like work commitments. For example, if one of the couple goes to work as a Security Guard in Iraq for three months does that mean that the couple stop being in a married couple relationship? Of course not.

However it is still a question of proving to the person dealing with the application for an UPV that the relationship is indeed like marriage.

Also, is marriage out of the question? If that is possible sometime in the foreseeable future then the question of an UPV becomes redundant.

Yeah I thought that too - when I was married before I worked away for long periods...

We've had a relationship akin to marriage in my view since about december 2003, when I first went to her country and met her. I wondered how possible it would be to prove this though for UPV? Impossible, but a good point I think, I visited her regularly, etc. But thinking about it we just werent living together, so maybe not.

We want to marry when it feels right, not to get visa. There are times when we say 'sod it' lets just get married quietly etc and have a 'proper' ceremony when we feel the time IS right. But we both have strong principles about this (neither religious so it's not that!).

Thanks

Steve