Please can I be done with the hostile bureaucracy of immigration now?

[cosmolinguist]

Andrew has (extremely carefully and only after I said it was okay, having learned from last week's debacle!) opened the post from the Home Office and can confirm that it's my UK passport.

I'm not even happy or relieved yet. I'm so ground-down by the whole process that it still hasn't sunk in yet, even as I look at it with the lettering all shiny, next to me on the table, waiting to be taken upstairs and filed away into unobtrusive normality.

Comments

[silveradept]

For when it is useful: congratulations on getting through the nightmare.

[cosmolinguist]

I will probably be more excited about it when I first get to go through the UK/EU passport line on returning to Manchester! Which will be at most a few months away. It would be more immediately useful if I were still applying for jobs, but as it is it's a bit of an abstract victory.

[meepettemu]

I’m glad you have it

[jack]

Congrats for getting through it!! I'm sorry the journey sucks so much :(

[miss_s_b]

Yeah, this.

[po8crg]

I'm hoping that this is the final and definitive end to your process and that you don't encounter any new and stupid bureaucracy.

Congratulations, if they are wanted.

And I dearly wish that you were as British as I am now, and I am furious at our government that you aren't.

[cosmolinguist]

I wish that too. I think I'd feel happier if I were as British as you now.

[sfred]

<3

[jesse_the_k]

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