The age gap should be irrelevant !

(It had better be. My g/f is only 26 ! )

That is blatant discrimination, and 'ageism'....one 'ism' I'm fully in favour of.

Other parts of the submission may indeed have been weak though.

I can't see what employment has to do with anything either, other than their possible suspicion that you're PRINCIPALLY coming here for employment purposes. ie 'economic advantage'.

I only wish they were as zealous about pursuing the 100s of 1000s of REAL wasters already hiding out in our country.