Chinese woman marries English man: simple? Hardly…
If you’ve never been to China, it’s hard to fathom just how different it is from most other countries. On the surface there are the obvious things – the language, the cultural facts that most of us are aware of – but beneath that are a myriad of other things which one cannot experience unless they actually spend time with the Chinese.
A friend of mine recently married a Chinese woman, and although their relationship was easily cemented in China with a proper legal process recognised everywhere, when it came time for her to move to the UK and work for good, things became very tricky indeed. Blame it on David Cameron and his cohorts, or blame it on the state of modern politics. Whatever the case, the problems began well before she obtained the right to live in this country. In fact, they started sometime before Christmas 2011 when she requested – along with her husband’s family – to come to the UK to spend just a couple of months.
Her first two applications were turned down, and it wasn’t until the adopted family hired a solicitor that things really started to get moving…