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Originally Posted by PDLM  Many many people in Hong Kong do. It takes a few minutes in a solicitor's office with two witnesses (who can just be random people pulled in off the street) and perhaps HK$3000. You don't even need to tell anyone except immigration that you have done it, and when you move on you can just get divorced again if that's what you want. Marriage is just a device to derive some benefits from immigration and tax authorities - no need to make a big thing out of it - the two people concerned should know exactly what the state of their relationship is without a piece of paper to prove it. |
Actually on any legal document/government form including taxes etc you must declare you are married. So only telling immigration is a load of ....
Furthermore no matter how public the marriage is when it comes to a divorce a legal settlement can still be had.
The bottom line is these two people don't want to get married. Why not give them a real answer such as how to get a job with a work visa etc instead of putting on the pressure to marry when they don't want to?