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i'll have to do it again in a year
also now i have two options:
🦋 is this a gacha
oh, it looks like i won't have to do it again in a year for citizenship; gov.uk just has some really confusing prose
hold on, i've calculated it wrong
i'll have to pay 4226 GBP
i think i might have to provide results of an English language test?..
ilmari@whitequark Unless you're from the one of the exempt countries or have a degree that was taught or researched in English, yes.
@ilmari gah. I thought GLT wouldn't need it
@whitequark I just looked up the service for checking if a degree from an overseas institution qualifies, and that costs £210, way more than doing the actual l language test (~£120 last I checked)! 🙀
@ilmari yeah I also don't have a degree
sila@whitequark after living here for 5-10 years, who would have guessed that u actually know English?!!
Kevin Karhan@whitequark Might just go to #Australia and pay AU$ 11,5M to get a passport instantly…
Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO@whitequark not even pay, just own even
狐ヴィクシー@whitequark Pay to live
Mirrors And Stuff@whitequark yeah - it should be valid for future citizenship applications without having to take it again (and pay for it again).
yopp@whitequark is this also part of the life test?
Congrats!
4censord 
@whitequark usually the "we only want you if you are rich" is slightly more hidden i had thought
Space Hobo@4censord @whitequark Oh no, it absolutely was not at all hidden when I went through all this 15 years ago.
Martin Fournier@whitequark congrats. Is it not a one time thing? How come you have to do it again?
@Laserboy citizenship
Ignas Kiela@whitequark there's no real way the queue is 6 months long, geez, this is basically predatory
SnowFox@ignaloidas @whitequark My experience (across two people/multiple visas) is that it takes about a month even if the stated processing time is 3-4 months. I don't know if it varies by nationality.
IIRC one of them has an issue date about a week after the application, and then I guess it sat in a box for a few more weeks before they sent it back? (Not sure if they can preemptively print the visa while the wait for the rest of the bureaucracy to process.)
@snowfox @ignaloidas are we talking about visas or ILR applications? because these are very different processes
@whitequark @ignaloidas They didn't seem that different for me, but it wouldn't surprise me if that also differed by visa category.
gaytabase@whitequark oh ffs
Tyr@whitequark is that a newish rule?!
Because I remember having to do it only once (in 2018 for permanent residency but not in 2019 for citizenship).
Because I remember having to do it only once (in 2018 for permanent residency but not in 2019 for citizenship).
@tyrthecat as far as i'm reading gov.uk texts it is the rule
@whitequark that sucks! Really sorry to hear.
atsuko@whitequark ~~wonder if they changed the rules.. when akko applied for passport, akko used previous life in the uk test (something-something one need to pass it only once during "the naturalisation pipeline")~~ nvm, seen your reply
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/immigration/getting-british-citizenship/applying-for-british-citizenship/ says you only need to do the test once
