Timeline for What are the laws about valid marriage as it concerns citizenship?
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| Nov 4, 2022 at 18:44 | comment | added | gnasher729 | There have been cases in the UK. None that I heard of were “fake” (pretending you married when you didn’t) but many “sham” marriages where two people have no intention to be a married couple, but do it just to get legal advantages. A registrar in the UK must not perform the marriage if he knows or suspects it is a sham marriage, or they get into legal trouble as well. | |
| Nov 4, 2022 at 12:27 | history | edited | PMF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Let's try this term
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| Nov 4, 2022 at 12:09 | history | edited | phoog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2022 at 12:06 | comment | added | phoog | They aren't much used as far as I'm aware (being familiar with US and UK law, but not overly so, and being unfamiliar with the relevant law of other English-speaking jurisdictions). But they're truer to the meaning of the German, obviously. I would prefer "sham" to "fake" as "fake" is more likely to imply that there was no marriage at all (e.g. a forged marriage certificate) whereas "sham" implies that there was a marriage but it was concluded under false pretenses. | |
| Nov 4, 2022 at 11:55 | history | edited | PMF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
stranger -> foreigner
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| Nov 4, 2022 at 11:55 | comment | added | PMF | @phoog Wikipedia uses the terms "sham marriage" or "fake marriage". What do you think of those? | |
| Nov 4, 2022 at 11:43 | comment | added | phoog | A frequent term is "marriage of convenience," but that isn't a particularly good translation for Scheinehe (and indeed it can include marriages of social convenience). The usual term used for Auslander is foreigner; until recently the term was alien but this word seems to have become pejorative among younger generations, so it is typically avoided nowadays. Stranger typically means "a person who is not known." It was formerly used in the sense of "foreigner" but this is so outdated today that most people would probably misunderstand. | |
| Nov 4, 2022 at 8:29 | history | edited | PMF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 4, 2022 at 5:54 | comment | added | Mark Johnson | The definition for Scheinehe (marriage of convenience) in Germany is similar. | |
| Nov 3, 2022 at 21:22 | history | answered | PMF | CC BY-SA 4.0 |