Advice for going as a tourist

yea, it's been all over the paper about how Immigration is trying to halve the number of immigrants to the UK and the goal is to do so by October this year (apparently they gave themselves a year as of last year).  I guess I understand the reasoning and all, but you know some of us, like me, wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the person I married.  I'd still be in the US and probably cringing at every moment of it with the current state of office, but we won't go there for the purpose of this thread.  But point is, it's not like it was my life long dream to live in England, and although I love it here for the most part, I do have my moments!

I'm sure they mean asylum seekers when they say halve the number of 'immigrants'. I find it annoying that legal immigrants (spouses etc) are often lumped in with illegals or asylum seekers. The US is just as guilty of this as the UK. Then again, unless he marries a foreigner, that is probably exactly what Joe Public thinks.

We're all standing in the same queue at Croyden as the asylum seekers...but we have the more humiliating task of needing to prove that we are really telling the truth, and not marrying just to get into the country. I know I went through the thoughts of "wonder if there is a hidden camera watching me and maybe I should be holding hands with my husband or showing some sort of kissy face love now..."