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peterdave

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Mar 23, 2011
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Hi there,
I have a family application with CHC, london. I was selected to have qualified and have my visa shortly after an interview with the london visa officer early this year. I recieved an email telling me this but they will contact me for PPR after days of routine background check and I was advised in same email to withdraw my FSW application I had on board before my wife filed the family application for me. It took me a week to even write an offcial letter of withdrawal for the FSW, I later got a reply from the CHC again saying that they got a confirmation from Ghana-Africa, That the ENROLMENT OF JUDGEMENT i submitted was not a full divorce certificate in Nigeria where my ex-wife divorced me while in the UK 5-years ago!And I was given 60 days to get this information.
This came as shock as am already re-married in the UK 3 years ago and I passed through the normal processing of applying for Marriage in the UK and I was approved the certificate to marry and I married my wife 3-yrs ago. Moreover, I immmediately contact Nigeria to get the full infor about the enrolment I was issued 5 years ago, then I was told there is still a pending DIVORCE CERTIFICATE to be collected, so I immediately paid for the charges and I was issued with the Certificate which i immediately forwarded to the CHC london as if this was what they required in their email. BUT NOTE: My ex-wife was the one that divorced me in Nigeria and I was issued with an enrolment of judgment in which i didnt context which led to the divorce.
In another developement, I recieved another email from CHC london invalidating the entire divorce certificate submitted as its from a customary court and, that I needed to forward to them a final divorce certificate from the high court that issue a "decree absolute". I was asked to please advise if am legally married and able to provide them with decree absolute. I was then given 15 days for the information.

My question is How on earth do CHC london expect me to have a divorce cetificate from the high court when I was not the person that filed the dirvorce at the 1st place? secondly, If am able to start and get the decree absolute they requested for, would it now mean my marriage with my wife in the UK 3 years ago will be annul? Thirdly, my marriage with my wife took place in the UK reflecting the UK way of marriage and regulation, why is the marriage not superseding the divorced status with the CHC,london. Fourthly, how come the UK approved my application to get marry even with the enrolment of court judgment i submitted and We were joined together and issued with a UK wedding certificate at the registry?Besides, what would I say to reply this email asking if am legally divorce and able to provide the decree absolute requested?
 
What a mess...

Not sure I can be of much help but I'll do what I can.

CHC London's expectation that you have the final divorce certificate was perfectly reasonable. The final divorce certificate should have been included in the original sponsorship application that you and your wife submitted (it's a mandatory document if you have been divorced and is listed on the document checklist). Unfortunately the fact that you didn't include this document with the original package is likely what started all of the trouble with your application in the first place.

Having said all of the above, it's very good to hear that you have now obtained the certificate and forwarded it to London.

If I understand correctly, London wants proof that you were in fact legally divorced. I think the final divorce certificate should prove this. And if you were in fact legally divorced years ago (and just didn't pick up the certificate proving this), it would seem to me that your more recent marriage is still perfectly valid.

Anyway, I'm not a legal expert. Hopefully others will comment...

Good luck!
 
CIC is assuming that you were in fact legally divorced, and that you just didn't include the divorce certificate, so they requested it. If you really did get divorced a few years ago, but just didn't receive a divorce certificate, no problem - you can get a copy of it now and submit it; you can maybe get a copy of it from your ex-wife or from the court.
But if the problem is that you are not really divorced legally - and it sounds like CIC thinks this is the prolbem, since they invalidated what you sent as being only from a 'traditional' court - then yes, In CIC's eyes it means your current marriage is invalid.
So try to get the official divorce certificate - if you were divorced officially, and not just in a traditional court, then one should exist. If it predates your current marriage, everything is fine.
 
Thank you @ canadianwoman. the question I dont understand is that Can I get the high court divorce certificate when my ex-wife already divorced me through customary court and left?I dnt know her where about again.Besides, Do I need to start the high court divorce newly on my own or wot?

Pls I need more advise seniors plsssssssss

@ scylla..thank you..still need more guides plss