Originally Posted by
ihoharv
If instead of the couple in question - who have my sympathy having gone through immigration & naturalization hoops in my lifetime (joint UK/USA citizen) - we were looking at a UK born Pakistani-heritage muslim British Army NCO soldier with Afghan/Iraq tours notched up, and his new, say, not quite as photogenic Tunisian bride if the Daily Mail readers would have been quite so outraged..? Mr Angry from Purley on the phone?
I suspect not.
We have an ethnically European Australian DiL who has to jump through our hoops and pay a very substantial sum for permission to remain.
If your hypothetical example was genuine then the same rules would apply so no need for outrage.