Petition · past parliament

Make abandoning spouses on Visa in a foreign country, a crime

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

Some couples without approaching court of law, taking the spouse living on visa to foreign countries and abandoning so that the spouse cannot enter back to the UK
There are several times couples, either or both living in the UK, having marital issues taking their partners and abandoning in a foreign country and informing border agency that marriage is broken, The border agency is just cancelling the spousal visa without any kind of legal checks they were supposed to do, making the spouse undergo severely suffer unjustified severe physical and psychological trauma

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

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Timeline

13 Sep 2017 Petition opened for signatures
18 Sep 2017 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12
Status Rejected
Rejected 18 Sep 2017

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.