This edited book brings forward important reflections on the migrant experience of couples, often but not always with examples of marriages between a citizen of a developed country and a migrant from the Global South. The chapters discuss policy and practice in Western European countries, North America,and developed countries in Asia. With a large number of international contributors, including some well-known academics in the area of family migration, the book presents chapters from diverse perspectives illustrating how the legal and social laws regulating family migration shape family life beyond the visa process, while the (re) unification of transnational couples is dependent on highly political understandings regarding migration and family. There are also chapters dedicated to discussing motivations for ‘non genuine’ transnational relationships, governmental instruments to assess genuineness in a relationship, with their shortcomings, and chapters analysing all the performance and staging work required to present a genuine relationship.