I am student and i get married with a phillipino one week ago. I am living in uk from last 3 years. I got student visa while my wife got indefinate. I applied for the change of status from student to married person with two years leave to remain. The home office officer ask me for the application and my bank statement and marriage certificate, after checking my records in his computer he went backside and phone to someone then after he told me that unfortunatly he is holding my file while he gave back the passport of my wife. When i ask so many times what is the reason, he did'nt give my clear answer said that someone is investigating my case already and he have to hold my documents. He said that that someone will contact u on phone of write me a letter regarding the application. my wife is 20 year older than me, he ask her r u married before? which she denied. Can someone help me whats the reason behind to hold my documents and does it affect my student status in case of refusal.
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Oh dear, they may think you are trying to fraudulently trying to stay in this country by marrying someone who holds a full visa. They may be suspicious because your wife is 20years older than you. If you still have your student visa then there's no reason why you can't stay but you'll have to see an immigration officer for the full details of what's happening.
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I suggest you contact an immigration attorney and ask him to get the information for you. I suspect you're being investigated because there is a large difference between your ages and they think you married her just to stay in the country and not because you really love her. If they are holding your important papers (you should have made a copy of them before you let them go) perhaps it's because they don't want you to leave the country while they are investigating you.
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When you say you got married a week ago, you should know that before you can get married in the UK, as a person without Indefinite Leave to Remain, you needed to get a Certificate of Approval from the Home Office. If you did not have this, I presume you got married in a religious ceremony, but your marriage has not been registered with the Registrar, and therefore your marriage has no standing with the Home Office.
I would guess that they will keep your passport while the whole matter is looked into. It is quite possible that they will decide that your main purpose in coming to the UK was not, as you had stated, to study, but to marry or find some other way to remain here. Therefore, your student visa could be cancelled, as it would be deemed to have been obtained fraudulently. They would say that you should return to your country and apply for a spouse visa to come and join your wife here - this would only be granted if she can show that she can support and accommodate you here, and a finding that you had obtained a student visa with bad faith would certainly make your application more difficult.
You and your wife should obtain professional legal advice as soon as possible - in fact you really needed to do this before getting married or making this application. You should find a solicitor who specialises in immigration. You have put yourself in a bad situation because you did not check out or follow the correct procedures, but you may be able to salvage things if you get good quality advice now.
Good luck.
Is it not the new law that came in couple years ago that students on a visa are not allowed to get married, you can remain as a married student this does not affect your rights. Or are they looking at as a marriage to get a british passport.
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