✧✦Catherine✦✧alright here we go https://codeberg.org/keepasschi
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Tael 🔜 AC26@whitequark more like KeepAss
@tael as someone who just passed the UK citizenship test, it's KeepArse, thank you very much!
Arch 💕@whitequark (oh! congratulations btw!)
Philippa Cowderoy@whitequark congrats, you're stuck with the rest of us!
@flippac not yet (I'm only about to apply for ILR)
@whitequark good luck, then - I'll admit, I have some personal history that makes me particularly horrified by how things keep changing, but I'm guessing you're on top of things
@flippac the UK is a slight downgrade from a war-torn country I left in terms of quality of life, but the passport is a lot better and my friends can just visit me, so it works out. also i benefited a lot from Brexit :)
@whitequark glad to know it wasn't just the utter bastards!
(am very much stuck here unless i want to claim a piece of heritage i don't speak the language for, and that'd almost certainly make things even worse - but i should sort my shit out about how i handle interacting with busy posters and not start a ukpol subthread)
@flippac haha, no, I was quite depressed about Brexit at the time it happened because of the age it was opening (correctly) but it's also exactly why today I have the time and space to do things like "fork keepassxc" so... upsides and downsides
@whitequark yeah, i get you and didn't mean to suggest you were immediately happy!
Eggs now in different baskets.@whitequark @tael Congratulations?
I passed the Norwegian one plus the required language tests a few years back.
It was cheaper to apply for Norwegian nationality than it would have been to renounce my British nationality.
Fortunately, just in time the Norwegian government passed a law allowing Norwegian citizens to have more than one nationality.
This saved me the several hundred pounds it would have cost me to renounce my British nationality.
@whitequark @tael Worth remembering the detail that if you have a British passport and other passports issued by other countries the British Passport Authorities insist that the names on all the passports are identical.
There are a couple of exceptions to this rule.
Also worth remembering that UK citizens now have to use their UK passport to enter the UK. (Canada has had a similar rule for the last decade)
So I have to keep my UK passport up to date if I want to travel to the UK.
Colin Watson@the_wub @whitequark @tael I have found that they can at least sometimes be persuaded if the argument is along the lines of "we intend to get the other one changed but there's an elapsed-time condition that hasn't been met yet".
@cjwatson @whitequark @tael The solution in the case that I dealt with was that the name on the non-UK passport contained an accented character.
As UK passports, AFAIK do not use accented characters my argument that the names never could be the same seemed to have been accepted.
angelthorns@whitequark @tael if i might ask (im british) why are you living in the UK (and whereabouts generally?), like what is there there to move for? I was a bit cooped up where I lived in England, nowadays I go out alot more frequently, just interested in what is there that one who touches grass would want to do
@angelthorns @tael I moved to the UK because it's not at war and because they gave me a visa despite me not having a degree
@whitequark @tael Ah okay, fair enough 😄
@angelthorns @tael it's a slight downgrade in quality of living but my friends can visit me so it works out
@whitequark @angelthorns me getting notifs for these reply threads when the only place I'd consider moving to is China:
derptron@tael @whitequark Must have used an A2A probe bridge.