A disabled UK citizen living on benefits complained of the denial of entry clearance to his Filippino fiancee whom he had never met but wished to marry here. The ground of refusal was that she would be a charge on public funds.
Held: The right to marry did not in principle include the right to choose the geographical location of the marriage and the refusal of entry was justified. The case did not involve a genuine marriage between two persons already in the jurisdiction.
(1983) 5 EHRR CD296, 9054/80, [1982] ECHR 15
Bailii
European Convention on Human Rights 8
Human Rights
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Cited – Baiai and others, Regina (on the Application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department HL 30-Jul-2008
In order to prevent marriages of convenience in the UK the Secretary of State introduced a scheme under which certain persons subject to immigration control required her written permission to marry and would not receive it unless they were present . .
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Updated: 30 July 2021; Ref: scu.272206