NZ: You can immigrate, but your spouse can't

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At least not unless she loses some weight (Paul Chapman and Graeme Baker, "New Zealand bars British man's 'fat' wife", Daily Telegraph, Nov. 21; Zycher, Medical Progress Today, Nov. 21). Australia "last year refused citizenship to a healthy British woman who wasn't heavy enough." (Aida Edemarian, "Are you too fat to emigrate?", Guardian, Nov. 20).

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I like it!

Meanwhile, in the U.S., as long as you can sneak your heft over the border, all the pounds of you will be set on a "path to citizenship."

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