§ Mr. Christopher Priceasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will publish in the Official Report the criteria he uses to distinguish between marriages of convenience and other marriages in making his decisions on immigration cases and the legal basis on which such administrative decisions rest.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesCompliance with the formal requirements of the Immigration Rules for Control After Entry for stay in this country is not conclusive in the 505W applicant's favour and I am required to take account of all the relevant facts. I do not consider that the rules confer any obligation on me to grant settlement on the strength of marriage where it can be shown that the marriage was entered into as a means of achieving settlement with no intention that the parties should thereafter live together. This interpretation has been upheld by the Immigration Appeal Tribunal.