'People can't believe what we were forced to do because of Brexit - it's ridiculous'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA love-struck man who was so desperate to live with his girlfriend he ‘married’ her to get around post-Brexit immigration laws has described the situation they found themselves in as “ridiculous”.
Mark Rofe met his Polish partner Alex Limanowka in Barcelona in 2019. The pair, both 34, instantly hit it off and decided to start dating when he returned to the holiday hotspot two years later.
As their relationship blossomed, freelance marketer Mark wanted to visit Alex at her home in the Spanish city as much as he could. READ MORE: Dad-of-two thought he'd just pulled a muscle...
then doctors said there was nothing they could do to save him READ MORE: 'My itchy skin turned out to be something utterly harrowing' But due to new Brexit laws, Mark, who once went viral for advertising himself on a Manchester billboard, quickly realised that wouldn’t be as easy as he first thought.
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