My interpretation of UK spouse resident application is this - "Do not marry a non-British if you are British, if you do your rights as a British citizen would be questionable"
How can a country make you think twice about who you fall in love with?
I am a Nigerian and a proud one too. I met my husband on one of my numerous holiday trips into the UK when I came over to inquire about Universities for my potential MSc program. I already had an existing admission and needed to convince myself to proceed with the MSc program. I worked as a research chemist back home but wanted to study Toxicology.
We got married just before I completed my MSc at a UK registry in June 2012. We went to Nigeria to have the Traditional wedding in September 2012. I applied for my stay in January 2012 and was issued a resident permit without any issues. In October 2013, we had a church wedding in Spain was my dream wedding. YES we had 3 weddings OMG!!! you may scream....... involved money too that's how we get it done in Nigeria.
During my interview with the UK immigration officer she asked how I met my husband and where we got married. I told her all the weddings we had and she stupidly asked me why we had 3 weddings? I couldn't respond to that for a minute because all that came to my head was sarcasm. Finally, I shook my head and said to her because we could.
Being together with my husband has always being priority, relocating to join him isn't an issue on my path. My issue is with UK home office whom furnished me misleading advice which has been completely ignored by the officer immigration.
I ask again what is the motive behind their action? It's numbers - Statistics.
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