diff --git a/src/FluentMigrator.DotNet.Cli/Commands/MigrationCommand.cs b/src/FluentMigrator.DotNet.Cli/Commands/MigrationCommand.cs
index 8915152aa..dc782ca05 100644
--- a/src/FluentMigrator.DotNet.Cli/Commands/MigrationCommand.cs
+++ b/src/FluentMigrator.DotNet.Cli/Commands/MigrationCommand.cs
@@ -58,5 +58,8 @@ public class MigrationCommand : BaseCommand
 
         [Option("--include-untagged-maintenances", Description = "Include untagged maintenances.")]
         public bool IncludeUntaggedMaintenances { get; }
+
+        [Option("--allowDirtyAssemblies", Description = "Allows dirty assemblies.")]
+        public bool AllowDirtyAssemblies { get; }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/FluentMigrator.DotNet.Cli/Program.cs b/src/FluentMigrator.DotNet.Cli/Program.cs
index 9be95b79e..8550f51c7 100644
--- a/src/FluentMigrator.DotNet.Cli/Program.cs
+++ b/src/FluentMigrator.DotNet.Cli/Program.cs
@@ -16,6 +16,13 @@
 //
 #endregion
 
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Reflection;
+using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
+
 using FluentMigrator.DotNet.Cli.Commands;
 
 using McMaster.Extensions.CommandLineUtils;
@@ -32,7 +39,80 @@ static Program()
 
         public static int Main(string[] args)
         {
+            if (args.Contains("--allowDirtyAssemblies"))
+            {
+                using (DirtyAssemblyResolveHelper.Create())
+                {
+                    return CommandLineApplication.Execute<Root>(args);
+                }
+            }
             return CommandLineApplication.Execute<Root>(args);
         }
     }
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Temporary workaround for
+    /// https://github.com/fluentmigrator/fluentmigrator/issues/1406
+    ///
+    /// taken mostly from
+    /// https://github.com/dotnet/BenchmarkDotNet/blob/852bb8cd9c2ac2530866dc53723c5f2ce3d411fa/src/BenchmarkDotNet/Helpers/DirtyAssemblyResolveHelper.cs#L18
+    /// 
+    /// Sometimes NuGet/VS/other tool does not generate the right assembly binding redirects
+    /// or just for any other magical reasons
+    /// our users get FileNotFoundException when trying to run their benchmarks
+    ///
+    /// We want our users to be happy and we try to help the .NET framework when it fails to load an assembly
+    ///
+    /// It's not recommended to copy this code OR reuse it anywhere. It's an UGLY WORKAROUND.
+    ///
+    /// If one day we can remove it, the person doing that should celebrate!!
+    /// </summary>
+    internal class DirtyAssemblyResolveHelper : IDisposable
+    {
+        internal static IDisposable Create() => new DirtyAssemblyResolveHelper();
+
+        private DirtyAssemblyResolveHelper() => AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve += HelpTheFrameworkToResolveTheAssembly;
+
+        public void Dispose() => AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve -= HelpTheFrameworkToResolveTheAssembly;
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// according to https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff527268(v=vs.110).aspx
+        /// "the handler is invoked whenever the runtime fails to bind to an assembly by name."
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <returns>not null when we find it manually, null when can't help</returns>
+        private Assembly HelpTheFrameworkToResolveTheAssembly(object sender, ResolveEventArgs args)
+        {
+            var fullName = new AssemblyName(args.Name);
+            string simpleName = fullName.Name;
+
+            // Get assemblies from runtime environment
+            string[] runtimeAssemblies = Directory.GetFiles(RuntimeEnvironment.GetRuntimeDirectory(), $"{simpleName}.dll");
+
+            // Create the list of assembly paths consisting of runtime assemblies
+            var paths = new List<string>(runtimeAssemblies);
+
+            // Since we search by simple name, there should hopefully be one file
+            string guessedPath = paths.FirstOrDefault();
+
+            // If there wasn't a runtime file check the app directory for the file 
+            if (guessedPath == null)
+            {
+                guessedPath = Path.Combine(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory, $"{simpleName}.dll");
+            }
+            
+            if (!File.Exists(guessedPath))
+                return null; // we can't help, and we also don't call Assembly.Load which if fails comes back here, creates endless loop and causes StackOverflow
+
+            // the file is right there, but has most probably different version and there is no assembly redirect
+            // so we just load it and ignore the version mismatch
+            // we can at least try because benchmarks are not executed in the Host process,
+            // so even if we load some bad version of the assembly
+            // we might still produce the right exe with proper references
+
+            // we warn the user about that, in case some Super User want to be aware of that
+            Console.WriteLine($"// Wrong assembly binding redirects for {simpleName}, loading it from disk anyway. {guessedPath}");
+
+            return Assembly.LoadFrom(guessedPath);
+        }
+    }
 }