A Jamaican immigrant denied permanent residency because the Canadian wife who sponsored him was 17 years his senior has won another shot at staying here. The officer “found that the couple’s 17-year age difference was evidence of an ingenuine relationship,” Justice Negar Azmudeh wrote in a recent decision. “It is unclear what the officer’s expectation for a reasonable age difference was and why the age gap was relevant. Gramigni, who now goes by Gramigni-Williams, said Thursday that she was pained to learn the immigration officer denied her spouse because of their age difference. “But that doesn’t make it wrong.”What she can’t grasp is why the immigration officer who had doubts about the legitimacy of the marriage didn’t bring them in for questioning.
