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There are a lot of scammers that try to come to the UK and their easiest method is to marry a UK citizen. The other party can be completely innocent and blinded by "love", so the immigration authorities need to do their job and vet the legitimacy of all that apply.

No-one likes being under scrutiny, that's a fact, but I would much rather the checks were there than not.

This is not a UK specific issue. It happens in a large number of countries. I do have sympathy for those subject to new rules and regulations when they have been here for decades. I think that is completely unfair. Their legality should be judged by the entrance criteria that was in force at the time of their arrival, not new rules introduced decades later. If you commit a crime, you are tried and sentenced by the laws that were applicable at the time the offense was committed, I see no difference with respect to immigration.