 FIANCE OR PROPOSED CIVIL PARTNER
Your fiance, fiancee or proposed civil partner may come with you to the United Kingdom, or join you in UK, if both you and he/she are aged 21 or over and you:
- currently live in the United Kingdom and are settled here; or
- are returning to the United Kingdom with him/her to live here permanently.
He/she must show that:
- you plan to marry or register a civil partnership within a reasonable time (usually six months);
- you plan to live together permanently after you are married or have registered a civil partnership;
- you have met each other;
- until you are married or have registered a civil partnership, there is somewhere for him/her and any dependants to live without help from public funds, he/she and any dependants can be supported without working or having to get help from public funds.
Your fiance, fiancee or proposed civil partner must obtain permission to enter the United Kingdom before travelling here, even if he/she is a national of a country where there is normally no need for a visa to enter the United Kingdom. We call this permission entry clearance. It will be in the form of a visa or entry clearance certificate. To obtain it, he/she should apply to the British diplomatic post in the country where he/she lives.
When your fiance, fiancee or proposed civil partner arrives in the United Kingdom, he or she will normally be granted permission to stay here for six months, but he/she must not work.
After you have married or registered your civil partnership, you husband, wife or civil partner may apply to stay in UK. If UKBA approve the application, they will give your husband, wife or civil partner permission to live and work in UK for two years.
Near the end of the two years, if you are still married or in a civil partnership and plan to live together, your husband, wife or civil partner may apply to live in UK permanently. See
Partners and children for details of how you can be joined by your:
- husband, wife or civil partner;
- unmarried or same-sex partner; or
- children (including adopted children) or your proposed partner's children.
As part of its work to protect people against forced marriage and help newcomers integrate rapidly into British life, the UK Border Agency is changing the rules for marriage visas.
An overseas national who is subject to immigration control can apply for permission to enter or remain in the United Kingdom as the husband, wife, civil partner, fiancé(e), proposed civil partner or unmarried/same-sex partner of someone who is settled or applying for settlement in the United Kingdom. This permission is generally known as a 'marriage visa', but it also covers partners who are not married.
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