International student - registering a marriage in the UK with a foreign citizen
<p>I am an international graduate student in the UK on a Tier 4 student visa. My partner is a German citizen and currently lives in Germany. We are planning to get married. Are we allowed to register our marriage in the UK and if yes how? Most guides assume that I am British or that my partner is British and are written accordingly but this is not the case.</p>
<p>Specifcally, according to <a href="https://www.gov.uk/marriages-civil-partnerships/give-notice" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this link</a>, we both to &quot;give notice&quot; of our marriage. Can my partner do this while visiting the UK as a tourist? Can I do this while on a student visa?</p>

<p>To get married in the UK, since Brexit, all citizens that aren't living in the UK, except for settled EU and Irish citizens, must apply for a  <a href="https://www.gov.uk/marriage-visa" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Marriage Visitor Visa</a>, even to give notice</p>
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<p><strong>Non-visa nationals who have not applied for a  Marriage/Civil Partnership visit visa to come to the UK to  marry or enter into a civil partnership</strong><br />
See: paragraph V 1.1(b) and V 1.3(a) of Appendix V: Visitor.</p>
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<p>Non-visa nationals who are seeking entry to visit the UK
to marry or enter into a civil  partnership, or to give notice of an
intention to marry or form a civil partnership, who  do not hold a
Marriage/Civil Partnership visit visa must be refused entry.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/visit-guidance" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Page 62 of the case worker guidance for visit visa</a></p>
<p>This only applies to your partner, and not to you, as you aren't the holder of a visitor visa, you don't need further special permission to marry on a Tier 4</p>

<p>If you get married outside the UK it is not possible to &quot;register&quot; that marriage in the UK: the facility simply does not exist.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/registration-services/marriages-and-civil-partnerships/getting-married-abroad/#:%7E:text=A%20marriage%20abroad%20will%20be,the%20marriage%20in%20England%20afterwards." rel="nofollow noreferrer">This page</a> from Wandsworth council says:</p>
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<p>A marriage abroad will be legally recognised in the UK providing it was contracted according to the law of the country in which it took place. There is no requirement, <strong>or facility</strong>, to register the marriage in England afterwards. We therefore suggest you consider obtaining extra marriage certificates, and translations if necessary, whilst abroad.</p>
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<p>(my emphasis)</p>

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