Has his wife applied for status? Is she on a work permit? Is she here legally? Is she registered to VOTE? Is she............................................?

What about Bermudians who marry a foreigner in another country?

... and if you can't tell if Luigi etc love you back, how can the immigration dept tell?

My main experience of this is in Australia. Mike and I were free to marry but immigration ask as standard that we prove it is a genuine relationship. They do due diligence but there is no way they can catch every sham, just make it more difficult. Sure, we have to answer a few slightly invasive questions but that seems a fair compromise. Asking government permission to marry seems unworkable and strange.

That's another bone of contention with me....$7grand?  That won't even buy me a bloody matchbox Kia.  I ain't marrying Ngutu or you Rasta Mon for anything under $50grand.  At least with that kind of payoff I can get myself my very own limozeeen. 

Hah! Depends on who has the best lawyer.

Interesting observation.  Many years ago (maybe 20?) the head of medicine at St. Brendan's [for any newbies to Bermuda that's the former name for the Mid Atlantic Wellness Institute] gave an interview to the Bermuda Sun.  She actually had the guts to say that the reason Bermuda had it's own mental hospital as opposed to a simple locked ward (which is all that a comparably sized city in the US would have) was that the Bermudian gene pool was stretched incredibly thin.  What amazed me was that I never saw a single letter to the editor about it and nobody, politician or otherwise, publicly demanded her head.  Of course, she left about a year later so we can hypothesize as to whether there was a cause and effect relationship going on here.

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Make you a deal.  You hire Mr. Perenchief and I hire Mr. Marshall.  After all, the latter only got there because of white priviledge.

Why dee hal yoo tink dey ver doze long jeenz ann arryting hangs arround dee henkles. No vundar dah sow axpenseeve. Vat ah vaist......................

Gotta run................Johnny Barnes horn dee lyne.......Sumptin bowt a honkie keeps honkin....

I think the expression is that "Bermudians live in the skinny end of the gene pool"!

If the application to marry a Bermudian takes as long as the application for a spouse to obtain Bermuda status, then I expect that not many marriages will be taking place in Bermuda!

Maybe it is a ploy to thin out the gene pool even further, that way no one in the future would ever question Commandate Brown and his cabel

PB