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Immigration – is this enough time?
I got married abroad to an individual i had spent 2 weeks with prior to marriage. We then spent 1 week together as husband and wife after which i had to come back to the UK (my holidays ended). I last saw her in Mid-March 2010 but we have kept in contact every day since (through international telephone cards which i have kept as proof and emails and miss you cards).
If i put in a application for settlement, will this be enough? Note, i meet all requirements (ie job, income, savings, property etc)
Note: i have wedding photos, a wedding film and marriage certificate as evidence
Very unlikely that this is enough evidence of an enduring relationship. There has been minimum contact since the beginning of the relationship and none for over 18 months.
I think you will find that UKBA will consider it is reasonable to assume that if the relationship was genuine, an effort would have been made to visit each other during that time. Certainly if you can afford the spouse visa process, you can afford a couple of trips anywhere in the world over a two year period.
Anybody involved in a marriage of convenience will have evidence in the form of wedding photos, certificate etc and it is not hard to make a telephone call once a day to ‘keep up appearances’.
I’m not for one moment suggesting that this is the case in your situation – but it is suspect. The important factor is that you have not shown much in the way of ‘intervening devotion’.
If I were you I would hold off applying for a spouse via until you had a couple of air tickets between you to show an effort to maintain the relationship on a physical level. UKBA really don’t care much for internet relationships.
