(no, screw it. I think relationships are private and personal, and legal contractual obligations to other people are entirely separate. Messing the two together is asking for trouble, espeially where you're privileging one type of relationship over all others.)
I'm currently in a weird little situation. My partner and I have been together for 5 years but have no plans to marry. (Thankfully, parental pressure is nil.) However, my visa status is based on our being in a relationship Just Like Marriage and I have to produce joint utility bills to prove it. I don't think this visa gives me any domestic rights at all, and if we split up I doubt I'd have the slightest claim to anything, but it keeps me in the country.
It's a great solution, because while I won't entirely rule out marriage, I am absolutely not willing to make that choice for visa purposes.
Glad the visa rules currently cover relationships as well as marriages - my brother basically got married because otherwise his girlfriend kept having to go back to Ohio...
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I don't want anyone granting partnership status. :)
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It's a great solution, because while I won't entirely rule out marriage, I am absolutely not willing to make that choice for visa purposes.
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