Iam 47, my husband is 30. Whats the problem with todays society? Is there a law in this land saying that there has to be age preference before anyone marries? To be told to my husband by a british consulate employee in Morocco, why he married an old woman, is not just insulting, but it is discrimination. Also to be told to my husband, as to why he married a woman from New Zealand and not his own culture is also discrimination. Also again to be told to my husband that New Zealand woman dont know their own destinys, this is discrimination. I ask myself now, does this woman that interviewed my husband, have racial and discrimination issues with the people she deals with everyday? Iam from New Zealand, but reside here in the UK, 10 years now, but 10 years too long. I am fed up with the attitude of the british parliaments, Iam also fed up with the british way of life, and their views on the people of the rest of the world. I have more heritage here in the UK, I have a grandmother, grandfather born in the North of England, and I have another grandfather from Scotland, my great great great grandfather was James Hargreaves, who invented the spinning jenny in the industrial revolution. Am I recognised, ......doubt it very much indeed! I have had to work for everything I have got in this country, never have I been on benefits or taken government handouts, and here I am now faced with a problem of trying to get my husband into the country to be with me, until I can see my 15 year old son pursue his dreams for his career. Is this a crime wanting to stick by my responsibility to my son, so he can do well in life, so I ask for my husband to join me here until my son is on his own two feet and old enough to please himself? What sort of mother would I be if, I failed my son, in important years of his life when he needs me still. So to be able to give him stability in his life, and make him feel supported I have opted to stay here, as a family unit with my husband. But my husband has been refused his visa, on grounds that we have found insulting, discriminating, and has tendencies to be a bit racial towards New Zealanders. Who sits and wants to listen? No MPs as I have tried, now we have to appeal. You know we have paid our money, gone through the right channels, filled in all appropiate paperwork, and was refused on issues that we feel devastated by. The interviewer when she spoke to my husband, did not listen to him, always interrupted him, with comments of her own, like New Zealand woman dont know their own destinys, what sort of comment is that, in reference to a visa,she went on to say I had 3 dependant children, I dont have 3 dependant children, I have 1. My husband told her this, but again she did not listen, she wrote in the refusal 3 dependant children. Are we to walk away from this and let her get away from adding her comments in, but not writing them in the actual refusal of the visa? Is she not meant to keep her personal opinions to herself? No way I am angry, my husband is angry, he got a petition going in Morocco to prove that age is not a problem within Morocco for marriage. Its not a problem for his family and definitely not a problem for my family. It seems to be a problem for the woman at the british consulate though, young , naive' and stupid, and obviously cannot see whats staring her in the face, that two people genuinely love each other, and want to live their lives and just asking to be together. Should we become illegal immigrants, and not fill in paperwork, or pay the money, would we get what we want then? Who is any government of this world, to say who we can and cant marry?