The laws in UK are very strict. Your daughter will be given a two year visa. If she passes this two year period she can stay in this country. During this period your daughter will be completely dependant on her in-laws and husband to stay in this country.
Maybe we are to blame as well, as we Asians believe that any country overseas means dollars and pounds, which is not the case. It is because of this sense of self importance your educated and beautiful daughter could be abused by her in-laws as they believe that they are doing your daughter a favor by giving her a chance to settle in this country.
They are in possibility of a lower stratum in UK society than you are in your Indian society. Please be aware that if the spouse is not earning around 35000 pounds to 40000 pounds, your child will have to fend for herself. As many banks in this country will not allow your daughter to open her own bank account in the first year, in all possibility your daughter's salary will be going into her husband's account. Its then up to him whether he wants to open a joint account or keep your daughter on an allowance of her own money.
Since the UK police comes down very hard on perpetrators of domestic violence in this country, the abuse that your daughter will suffer will be of such a kind that it will not leave any marks on her body that her physician can report to the police, it will be a crime of such a nature that your child will be too ashamed to tell anyone and will include gross neglect, mental torture and public and private humiliation (please be prepared for acts of violence of a sexual nature).
Within this time -frame if your daughter leaves her husband, according to UK government:
- Your daughter will have to leave this country, according to the UK visa laws your daughter has to be living in the same address as recorded during the grant of her UK visa and when she leaves her husbands house she negates this stipulation
- When she loses her visa she loses her right to work in this country
- According to the UK law if the marriage breaks down within two years, your husband does not owe your daughter any maintenance or alimony as the marriage is only one or maybe two years old. The UK govt. believes that if you daughter is in her20's she is still young enough to start her life afresh and so her husband does not owe her anything.
- If your child does not have a baby, her case does not even stand a chance in court
- Please forget ever getting back any gift money or gold that you gave to the husband's parents unless of course you have actual legal proof of it. If it can't be proved in the court of law they don't give you anything.
- While your daughter's life will be destroyed, this same family will easily get their son married off to some other girl, in possibility from your own pindh
Please think twice. I am saying this as a sister and a daughter. A message to all the father's in India.
I'm in a similar situation. I don't get along very well with my mother-in-law and my husband does not support me as well. I'm from Delhi and am I in London for just under a year. Please can you help me or advice me what I should do?