✧✦Catherine✦✧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
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
kit@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
@whitequark ouch. I felt that one. Not even a little bit wrong.
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@whitequark I've heard that the Home Office operates at an insane profit because of these fees.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@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 :)
ChuckHarrison wrote some stories based on that premise :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathworld
