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A marriage of convenience (plural marriages of convenience) is a marriage contracted for reasons other than the reasons of relationship, family, or love. Instead, such a marriage is orchestrated for personal gain or some other sort of strategic purpose, such as immigration. The phrase is a calque of French: mariage de convenance - a marriage of convention, or marriage of suitability. Marriages of convenience are often contracted to exploit legal loopholes of various sorts. A couple may wed for reasons of citizenship or right of abode, for example, as many countries around the world will grant such rights to any wedded resident. Another common reason for marriages of convenience is to hide one partner's homosexuality in cases where being openly gay is punishable or potentially detrimental. A sham marriage may thus create the appearance of heterosexuality. Such marriages may have one heterosexual and one gay partner, or two gay partners. In the case where a gay man marries a woman, the woman is said to be his "beard". The phrase "marriage of convenience" has also been generalized to mean any partnership between groups or individuals for their mutual (and sometimes illegitimate) benefit, or between groups or individuals otherwise unsuited to working together. An example would be a "National Unity Government", as existed in Israel during much of the 1970s or in Second World War Great Britain. More specifically, cohabitation refers to a political situation which can occur in countries with a semi-presidential system (especially France), where the president and the prime minister belong to opposed political camps. Such partnerships are often referred to jokingly as "marriages of inconvenience", particularly where real co-operation between the parties is absent. From Wikipedia under the
GNU Free Documentation License Can a marriage of convenience ever become better/more then what it was originally intended for? Q. What if the marriage was built on falsehoods to start out with...can something be made from nothing? What are your opinions... Asked by soelmama - Tue Mar 27 19:31:42 2007 - - 7 Answers - 0 Comments A. Nope! There is NO solid foundation, and when the "winds of adversity" come, it will topple! Answered by olderbutwiser - Tue Mar 27 19:36:01 2007 Has anyone here entered a marriage of convenience? Q. for example: getting married to have a better income or getting married just to have kids, or anything like that. just wondering how it worked out for ya...Thanks!! Asked by Jealous?? - Tue Apr 24 15:35:14 2007 - - 17 Answers - 0 Comments A. I would consider that an act of desperation. I can't see any good coming from it. Answered by Millionaire in training - Tue Apr 24 15:39:31 2007 What should be done about marriages of convenience (for immigration purposes)?
Q. In France it is illegal to marry someone foreign so they can get a visa. Should other countries adopt this? And what is the effect of this on couples where one person needs a visa but they are genuinely in love and want to get married for that reason? Any other thoughts on marriages of convenience or the discrimination against mixed marriages because of this? Asked by Frenchie - Fri May 8 04:26:19 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments A. In the US, if someone is caught knowingly entering into marriage fraud, they can be fined up to $250,000 and jailed for up to 10 years, and the foreign "spouse" will be deported and banned from reentry for 10 years Unfortunately because there is so much fraud, it makes it much more difficult and time consuming for legitimate couples who want to be together. A friend who married a woman from Colombia (she's a surgeon in the same hospital he works in) is going through hell with immigration because they suspect it's fradulent, apparently because there are a lot of fradulent marriages involving South Americans Answered by Kittysue - Fri May 8 07:44:02 2009 From Yahoo Answer Search: "Marriage of convenience"
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