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Marriages of inconvenience – how do marriages involved in immigration cases fare long term?
What is a marriage of convenience and whether one is, or is not, and its current EU definition, are huge problems in UK and EU-wide immigration. The UK immigration law always went with “sham marriage” – one contracted as a facade where no real relationship is present. However, the EU definition of “marriage of convenience”, even though some experts think that it was initially meant to define the same (but suffered from mis-translation and bad judicial interpretations), is much more complicated. So much so, that it is, in my view, administratively, judicially and – importantly for lawyers – ethically unworkable. The … Continue reading →