can we talk about how deliberately, purposefully cruel the UK settlement (permanent residency) process is
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can we talk about how deliberately, purposefully cruel the UK settlement (permanent residency) process is
super priority for 1000 GBP gives you the result on next day
btw it's 3226 GBP per person
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can we talk about how deliberately, purposefully cruel the UK settlement (permanent residency) process is
super priority for 1000 GBP gives you the result on next day
btw it's 3226 GBP per person
imagine paying several of your monthly salaries for this application (even as a tech worker that is steep, the base cost is slightly above my take home pay right now) then having to travel to your home country because of a family emergency and getting shafted by UKVI as a result
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can we talk about how deliberately, purposefully cruel the UK settlement (permanent residency) process is
super priority for 1000 GBP gives you the result on next day
btw it's 3226 GBP per person
@whitequark What this for?
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@whitequark What this for?
@Tengu UK settlement
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imagine paying several of your monthly salaries for this application (even as a tech worker that is steep, the base cost is slightly above my take home pay right now) then having to travel to your home country because of a family emergency and getting shafted by UKVI as a result
@whitequark yes. By design.
Even as a kiwi, about as close to British for immigration purposes as you can be without actually being British, I found the whole process frustrating, and in the intervening years I’ve watched them pile on humiliation after humiliation, just because they can.
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can we talk about how deliberately, purposefully cruel the UK settlement (permanent residency) process is
super priority for 1000 GBP gives you the result on next day
btw it's 3226 GBP per person
@whitequark yes, it is. I didn't even know about the police registration requirement.
Many people who consider themselves internationally-minded and tolerant have no idea about any of this.
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@whitequark yes. By design.
Even as a kiwi, about as close to British for immigration purposes as you can be without actually being British, I found the whole process frustrating, and in the intervening years I’ve watched them pile on humiliation after humiliation, just because they can.
@hypostase home office is the type of organization that would invent Racism 2 because they found the original one insufficient
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@whitequark yes, it is. I didn't even know about the police registration requirement.
Many people who consider themselves internationally-minded and tolerant have no idea about any of this.
@coral that one was removed a few years ago
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@Tengu UK settlement
@whitequark @Tengu Irish citizenship requires continuous presence in Ireland for 365 days up to the date of your application (along with 5 years legal residence). That's one reason I didn't apply until 3 years after I was eligible, was always traveling.
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imagine paying several of your monthly salaries for this application (even as a tech worker that is steep, the base cost is slightly above my take home pay right now) then having to travel to your home country because of a family emergency and getting shafted by UKVI as a result
@whitequark I've heard that the Home Office operates at an insane profit because of these fees.
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@whitequark @Tengu Irish citizenship requires continuous presence in Ireland for 365 days up to the date of your application (along with 5 years legal residence). That's one reason I didn't apply until 3 years after I was eligible, was always traveling.
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@hypostase home office is the type of organization that would invent Racism 2 because they found the original one insufficient
@whitequark ouch. I felt that one. Not even a little bit wrong.
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@whitequark @Tengu yeah.... who tracks it - they required a complete list of dates of entry/exit along with photocopies of all relevant passport pages with entry/exit stamps. Great fun.
And then after you've gathered all required paperwork, they're bound to say you got something wrong. I hired an immigration lawyer (solicitor) to help - they reviewed my stuff and submitted the paperwork on my behalf, so they dealt with any pushback first.
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imagine paying several of your monthly salaries for this application (even as a tech worker that is steep, the base cost is slightly above my take home pay right now) then having to travel to your home country because of a family emergency and getting shafted by UKVI as a result
@whitequark yeah when Theresa May said "hostile environment" she really fucking meant it. it's grim.
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@whitequark yeah when Theresa May said "hostile environment" she really fucking meant it. it's grim.
@gsuberland putting the grim in government.
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can we talk about how deliberately, purposefully cruel the UK settlement (permanent residency) process is
super priority for 1000 GBP gives you the result on next day
btw it's 3226 GBP per person
@whitequark its disgusting , every year they make it hharder and pricier, so many of my colleagues have had trouble with thr process and excess scrutiny applied for no reason other than where they were born
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@whitequark @hyc @Tengu I've lived in the UK for nearly 20 years and have EU/EEA Settled Status (can I have a "FUCK BREXIT!"?), but I still haven't got around to doing the citizenship dance because of the ludicrous paperwork requirements (need to list every time I've been outside the UK in the last 5 years) and fees (citizenship application "only" costs £1839, plus the language test).
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@whitequark @hyc @Tengu I've lived in the UK for nearly 20 years and have EU/EEA Settled Status (can I have a "FUCK BREXIT!"?), but I still haven't got around to doing the citizenship dance because of the ludicrous paperwork requirements (need to list every time I've been outside the UK in the last 5 years) and fees (citizenship application "only" costs £1839, plus the language test).
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@whitequark yeah when Theresa May said "hostile environment" she really fucking meant it. it's grim.
@gsuberland it's convenient that my life has prepared me for literally everything around being adversarial
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imagine paying several of your monthly salaries for this application (even as a tech worker that is steep, the base cost is slightly above my take home pay right now) then having to travel to your home country because of a family emergency and getting shafted by UKVI as a result
i'm well-off enough that this stuff only feels like an existential threat to my life instead of being an existential threat to my life, and i can afford to pay all the stacked fees (even if it seriously eats into my finances). i don't expect most people to be so lucky
