Question follow-through · 19415

Sham Marriage

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent measures her Department has introduced to (a) detect and (b) prevent sham marriages.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 16 Jul 2026
Target answer date: 2 Sept 2026
Answer: 3 Sept 2026 · 49 calendar days after tabling

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16 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent measures her Department has introduced to (a) detect and (b) prevent sham marriages.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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3 Sept 2026
Answer published
The Government takes abuse of the immigration system, including sham marriages and civil partnerships, extremely seriously. Family migration must be based on a genuine and subsisting relationship, and where this is not the case the Home Office will take r...

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