I WAS not surprised that Mrs Josephine Watson was denied a visa to Australia to join her husband because of doubts the relationship was ''ongoing and genuine'' (South China Morning Post, April 22). I am Chinese and hold a UK passport. I have worked and lived in Hongkong since 1987. My husband and I have apartments in London and Hongkong. I had visited Australia twice in the late 1980s and had enjoyed both visits. My job in Hongkong pays well and my employers supported my holiday plans to Australia. (In fact one of them wrote a supporting letter for me on behalf of my application for a visa). My bank accounts are reasonably healthy, so can anyone at the consulate tell me how on earth I could ''have failed to show that a genuine visit to Australia is intended. Doubts over whether [I] would abide by visa conditions are such that a visa cannot be approved''? I want the Australian Consulate's ''authorised officer'' to know that since I was denied the opportunity to spend my holiday money in Australia, instead we went to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Could this be one of the reasons why the Southeast Asian countries' economies are on the rise, and the Australians' businesses are only just plodding along? S. LAU Kowloon