Around three years ago here in Germany, I watched some round-table chat forum group reach the topic of Muslim guys showing up and getting the two-wife thing set-up. The topic was lightly discussed for about sixty seconds, and the moderator moved on.
At the time, I sat there and thought.....it'll become a serious topic eventually and Germans will ask how and where it will end.
So today, it got brought with short story from Focus. This guy from Syria....has a wife and four kids that he brought over three years ago. He applied at some point last year, for wife number two. Her story? It appears that from these kids here in Germany now....she's the mother of these kids (maybe not all but at least one, that part of the story is unclear).
What happened here? The German authorities simply state that the guy came up with paperwork and a case-by-case situation occurred, and the German authorities believed it was better that she be here in Germany, with the kids. She'll be given entry papers and a visa.
The question will eventually arise....if Mr X does the visa thing and gets his permanent visa....then goes off and gets married in some Middle Eastern country and returns to Germany with wife number two, or possibly wife number three....can they really deny him or his new wife the entry paperwork? My guess is no. It might take a full year to get papers approved and have the authorities stamp it final....but it'll likely happen.
If you had suggested a decade ago this type of scenario would happen in Germany....folks would have laughed.
What happens when a German guy decides to test this whole thing and marry in some country like this a second wife as well? At that point, I suspect the judges will sit there and realize the mess that they've created but they can't stop the German guy from having two wives (both German, mind you).
On my list of a hundred-odd implications of this whole immigration game....this is one of the odd things which you really can't project or settle. Even the pro-asylum folks would say that there's problems with this idea but they can't find a way to deny entry. The tax handling for a guy like this? Well....that would obviously come up and I doubt if the Finanazamt (German IRS) people have done much thinking over allowing two wives to exist as a 'credit'.
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