Couple who married three weeks after they met haven't seen each other for FIVE YEARS

A couple who married three weeks after they met haven't seen each other for more than five years - because the husband is banned from entering the UK.

Sarah and Oluyemi Sholagbade, both 35, started talking online in April 2015. They then met face-to-face for the first time the following year when she travelled to Nigeria - and tied the knot just three weeks later.

More trips to Africa followed, before Oluyemi decided to try for a UK visa so he could move to be with Sarah. But his application was blocked - meaning the last time the couple saw each other was in March 2017.

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The pair say they have spent more than £5,000 on legal help to try and flip the Home Office's decision. But Oluyemi is still stuck in Lagos - while Sarah lives more than 4,500 miles away in Wigan.

She said: “We both feel ‘where do we go from here?’ - it’s not easy. We stay in contact through WhatsApp, Facebook and video calls as well as TikTok.

“I haven’t got back out to him again because first of all we were trying to pay the solicitors and then Covid hit and now the cost-of-living crisis and everything is going pear shaped. We’re trying to save up anything we can for me to go over there.”

Sarah and Oluyemi met online in April 2015 when she posted a video on Facebook and he commented. The pair quickly hit it off, with Oluyemi leaving his ex-partner to be with Sarah. They spent a year getting to know each other via phone calls and say it started as a friendship that blossomed into a romance.

A year after they first started talking, Sarah then flew out to Nigeria in April 2016 – and within a few days of being there, the pair decided to get