I'm a UK citizen living in Austria with my boyfriend who is an asylum seeker from Iran. He has had his asylum claim rejected and he has filed for an appeal. We have been together for two years and are thinking about getting engaged.
1) Is it possible to move to the UK and claim asylum there even though he has applied for asylum in Austria and been rejected?
2) Can we get married in Austria? The authorities have his ID documents which he took along to prove his ID so he doesn't have ID yet. If we got married here, can we then get a visa for the UK?
Basically, how can we move to the UK together?!
1) No, it's not possible to apply for asylum in another country that signed the Dublin III convention. The UK will check back with the EURODAC database and find out that he already claimed asylum in Austria before. Hence he will be sent back.
2) In general it should be possible to marry in Austria if you can provide the required documents. Get in contact with the competent registry office ("Standesamt") and ask them about the details. Both of you will most likely have to hand in a valid passport, a certificate of birth, an official confirmation of residence ("Meldebestätigung") and a certificate of no impediment that proves that both of you are eligible to marry. At least that's what I found out through some research on the internet.
In general, foreign documents that aren't written in German need to be translated by a verified translator. You need to submit both the translation and the original document. Maybe there are special agreements between Austria and Iran regarding acceptance of each others documents. The officials at registry office can tell you more about that.