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
@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 :)

@whitequark

Harrison wrote some stories based on that premise :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathworld

@gsuberland

Deathworld - Wikipedia