A married lesbian couple from India has lost their legal battle to stay in the UK on the grounds that their relationship would not be legally recognised in India.
The couple, who cannot be named for legal reasons, left from India as friends in 2007 and went on to enter into a civil partnership in Scotland in 2008, which they converted into marriage last year.
Judges at the UK's Court of Appeal rejected their application to remain in the UK on the grounds that their relationship would not be legally recognised in their home country.
According to The Guardian newspaper the couple both completed Master’s degrees in Scotland and then found work and have always lived on legal visas in the UK and now want to acquire an “indefinite leave to remain” in the country.
