If he's primarily interested in politics Oxford might not necessarily be the best choice, unless you need it for plot reasons. The London School of Economics might be a good alternative.
If it has to be Oxford, a Rhodes scholarship might be an alternative.
Re. Oxford, if he isn't married to his girlfriend then his key issue is going to be betting her into the country. These days an unmarried partner visa is available, but this was only introduced in the late 90s (that is, it was introduced for same-sex couples in 1997, and I think that it was introduced for hetersexual couples at the same time, but I may be wrong).
If they are married, then there's no problem - they get a spousal visa and live in married accommodation for postgrads. There's not a lot of it, so many students with partners will live in private rented accomm., but there is some so a college-owned flat won't be implausible.
I can't help you with the US end of it, but at about the time you are writing about, a friend who had just graduated from Cambridge married her boyfriend who if I recall correctly was still an undergraduate at that time. Being married got them a flat (kitchen, bedroom, living room, bathroom and if I recall correctly a slip of a room that you could just put a bed or a desk, but not both in.). The size was quite generous - certainly the combined floor area would be bigger than twice the area you would expect 2 single student to have. To facilitate this, she took a teacher training course at the university though she had no expectation of using it to teach. Normally for a graduate, this course would be one year course, but she chose to convert from a science subject that is always short of teachers that she did her degree in, to another subject, also short of teachers, so that she could do the two year conversion PGCE course not the 1 year PGCE and be a student of the university while her husband completed his degree. Once she had
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If it has to be Oxford, a Rhodes scholarship might be an alternative.
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OP: Just how much do you already know about Oxford and its university?
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If they are married, then there's no problem - they get a spousal visa and live in married accommodation for postgrads. There's not a lot of it, so many students with partners will live in private rented accomm., but there is some so a college-owned flat won't be implausible.
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