For a start, you will not be allowed to get married in the UK unless your fiance has entered this country on a fiance's visa, as the marriage rules were changed in February this year. I presume in order to marry in any other country nearby you fiance would still have to apply for a visa to enter that country, then there is all the messing around complying with that country's rules for getting married.

your best bet is to either get married in the US so that your fiance could then apply directly for a spouse's visa from there, or apply now for a fiance's visa so that he can come over her to marry you (within 6 months) and then you will be able to apply for the spouse's visa from within the UK once you are married.

In your situation, I don't think it would be any easier going down the spouse route than it is to go down the fiance route! These days getting married is not the easy option!!!

 

Good luck to you both!

Applying from outside the UK is also cheaper (around £260), whereas if you had gone down the fiance route you would have had to pay £260 for the fiance visa in the US then another £400 for the in country spouse application!!! Getting married in the US means you'll just have to pay the £260 or so fee.

I hope everything works out for you. Unfortunately we both live in a country that likes to penalise people who don't marry someone British!! I'm sure it will all go smoothly for you though x