Fiancée applications from outside UK

As leading immigration lawyers will advise, aside from a spouse application, partners can also apply to join sponsors in the UK, as fiancées.

The fiancée applications are relatively similar to marriage applications, with the key, obvious difference being that the marriage requires the parties to produce a valid marriage certificate whist the fiancée application does not.

If you wish to marry within the UK after obtaining a fiancée visa or enter into a Civil Partnership with a UK national and then settle permanently in the country, Rule 290 can be used for your benefit.

This page deals with the requirements if you are outside the UK, see here.

If you want to come to the UK under a fiancée visa to join your UK partner, you can apply to do so if your partner is currently living in the UK and settled here; or returning to the UK with you to live here permanently. Settled in the UK usually requires that they have a British Passport or Indefinite Leave to Remain.

Other requirements include:

• Both partners must be at least 21 years old at the time of the application.

• Both parties must have met one another, but an arranged marriage where they have met is acceptable.

• You plan to marry within 6 months in the UK, which is the validity of the visa.

• You plan to live together permanently after you are married, usually in the United Kingdom.

• Both before and after the marriage, there is an adequate place for you to live, this means that you have some where lawful to live, which is of adequate size.

• You and any dependants (usually children) can be supported without working or needing help from public funds before the marriage.

• And then after the marriage, with the ability to work, the applicant can support herself and her husband’s using the couple’s joint income without needing public funds / benefits.

All fiancée visa applications must be made from the home country, once they are approved, entry clearance is given for 6 months. During that 6 months the couple can be married.

Once they are married they can stay in the country and apply to remain in the UK as a married person at that point.

For details of these applications, click here.

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