Someone who has a marriage certificate is not thereby entitled to a visa [ says our friend, and Joanna Lumley's victim, Mr Woolas]. Come to that they weren't before the scheme was introduced,methinks. Trouble with that, of course,is that we're trying to shut the stable door after the horse has bolted.You can do a lot when possessed of a marriage certificate long before anybody gets around to enquiring whether the marriage was a sham, if they ever do.
NJ, don't you suspect that, if the government changed the law, by statute, somebody would be arguing that the statute contravened European law, to which we are all subject ?