Categories: just-life
Date: 23 July 2009 21:19:09
Having been married for six months how would you describe then being told that you would not be allowed to stay together for the next eighteen months. Even after the Home Office had approved the marriage?? The UK Border Agency describes this eighteen month period as "an inconvenience".
This is the situation that a couple in North Wales now face after, nineteen year old Canadian, Rochelle married her British sweetheart and a slight cock-up by someone in the Home Office means that they have fallen foul of a law designed to prevent forced marriages of young Asian women.
If she leaves the country she will not be allowed back in, even though the Home Office is more than happy that this isn't a sham marriage. And even though I say "if she leaves" what I mean is 'when she leaves' as she's not actually allowed to stay.
Go figure.