Marriage abroad, living long distance

boomer69

Just have her at your place as a visitor a few times a week.

tboo

boomer69 wrote: »

Just have her at your place as a visitor a few times a week.

What even when they are married!!

Enquirer123 wrote: »

This hypothetical relationship is - in the scenario - entirely genuine. Mr A and Miss B have indeed met each other and are genuinely in love. Their intention to marry before Miss B moves to the UK is non-negotiable but this is a genuine marriage and not a marriage of convenience. They can prove this.

Enquirer123

To answer the questions:

1) Yes, Miss B is an EU citizen.
2) Miss B is not "well off". She has no savings but has a reasonably well paid job. Between marriage and moving here she is going to have to do some hard saving to cover he cost of making the move and covering her current rent and living expenses. She is not going to have any spare cash to throw to Mr A.

Enquirer123

Kentish_Dave wrote: »

So despite your wife being able to support you you want to keep her out of the picture and continue to receive benefits?

You hopefully understand how wrong this is and will honestly report your change in circumstances but your post does seem to suggest otherwise.

Another person who is all about what they can get away with, not what is the right thing to do.

I am not suggesting any such thing. If Mr A and Miss B were to go ahead with a marriage before moving in together, while maintaining the expenses of two separate households and trying to save so that Miss B can make the move, surely the pair would be wise to be in possession of all the information about how this would affect their respective incomes?

A lot of people are making a lot of assumptions - that they are "arranging" a marriage, that they want to keep it on the down low from the benefits people - but, again, this is entirely hypothetical.

tboo

Enquirer123 wrote: »

To answer the questions:

1) Yes, Miss B is an EU citizen.
2) Miss B is not "well off". She has no savings but has a reasonably well paid job. Between marriage and moving here she is going to have to do some hard saving to cover he cost of making the move and covering her current rent and living expenses. She is not going to have any spare cash to throw to Mr A.

Enquirer123 wrote: »

I am not suggesting any such thing. If Mr A and Miss B were to go ahead with a marriage before moving in together, while maintaining the expenses of two separate households and trying to save so that Miss B can make the move, surely the pair would be wise to be in possession of all the information about how this would affect their respective incomes?

A lot of people are making a lot of assumptions - that they are "arranging" a marriage, that they want to keep it on the down low from the benefits people - but, again, this is entirely hypothetical.

OP cut to the chase is this situation real or not

as you won't get good expert answers based on a hypothetical question

TELLIT01

If the EU national has the right to come to the UK and potentially claim benefits, it's likely that they would be treated as a couple despite living apart. The UK based partner should certainly declare them as a partner and let a DWP Decision Maker make the final call on this. Failing to do so could be considered to be benefit fraud.

Kentish_Dave

If it’s hypothetical then you are wrong, I’ve decided that it’s a sham marriage to cheat the system, and she earns half a million a year so should support him.

It’s idiotic of you to invent some weird made-up story and then drip feed the information. What kind of person makes up something like this then messes around wasting people’s time with it?

And what’s the betting that you just happen to be on benefits just like your hypothetical invented “friend”?

huckster

Hypothetical posts never work, because it is always about real details.

The short answer to every question that may be raised in this thread, is tell any UK benefits agency all of the information and let them make a decision.

konark

I can't believe some of the respondents to this thread even read the OP's question.



Effectively Mr A has a girlfriend who does not live with him, how can that affect his benefits? It can't. You don't need to tell the benefits agency every time you get a new girlfriend if she doesn't live with you.

poppy12345

konark wrote: »

I can't believe some of the respondents to this thread even read the OP's question.



Effectively Mr A has a girlfriend who does not live with him, how can that affect his benefits? It can't. You don't need to tell the benefits agency every time you get a new girlfriend if she doesn't live with you.

I think you need to have another read of the question. They plan to marry before she relocates to the UK. The question was, will his benefits be affected once they marry, even though they won't be living together until she relocates.