Perhaps I could just add that, in my experience working in the clinic, a lot of the spousal sponsorship cases get rejected because the visa officers find that there's no genuine relationship. Then we end up having to appeal. In my view, many of these decisions are a reflection of the biases of some visa officers overseas, whether it's cultural bias, class bias, or race bias, that actually, in my view, prolong the immigration application process as well. If visa officers have more objective criteria—
On October 27th, 2016. See this statement in context.