The point I was trying to make in my comment after reading the case is it shouldn't matter if they were nitpicked or not. Their answers should have been PERFECT. Appellants typically have at least a year to prepare for an appeal hearing. If there were ever a time to study about your partner, it would have been during the time they were waiting for the hearing. It seemed to me that the IAD member was prepared to overlook the age difference as long as genuineness could be proven. They discounted the VO's remarks about a "non-traditional" Moroccan wedding and didn't give that any weight. All the couple had to do was prove that they knew each other the way a married couple "should" in the opinion of the IAD member. That was a gift. But it required near perfection on the part of the sponsor and applicant and 100% honesty. They didn't deliver. The member was even prepared to forgive the lie told in the application about how they met but the applicant and sponsor didn't produce a similar position on that point which ended up being another strike against them. Put yourself in the IAD member's shoes. You are willing to look at this from a fresh perspective, the sponsor owns up to a lie and makes a plausible explanation, you are prepared to forgive but when you question the applicant about it, they perpetuate the lie. I mean, if the couple hadn't even discussed that they were going to disclose this at the beginning of the most important hearing of their relationship, wouldn't you call into question how much and at what depth they really communicated? I'd get a little nitpicky too.
Aziz, I'm sorry akhoya but I don't want to see your application. I do this work as a profession and I come on the forum to help people out where I can, not take over their case. Even if I was hired to do this it would take a huge amount of work and I give you less than a 25% chance of success. I do wish you and your wife luck. Sometimes the universe is strange and if we work hard enough for what we want, we get it. And sometimes we just get lucky.
