I submitted my application on 20 September, it cost almost £3500 which I paid out of my pocket. This included additional £800 for ‘super priority’ service which promises decision within 24 hours (it was either that or ‘normal’ application which is up to 6 months wait)
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I didn’t get a decision 24 hours later (and no refund). Instead I got an email telling me that a decision won’t be made within 24 hours because the case raises ‘exceptionally complex issues’. For the last 5 weeks, I kept frantically checking my emails hoping to hear back.
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They posted a letter which I only managed to pick up last night. What are these ‘exceptionally complex issues’, you ask? I was out of the country for too many days. And why was that? I was conducting fieldwork for a year in Delhi for a PhD which I was doing at
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I provided several letters to present the case that fieldwork is a crucial aspect of my work and should not count towards my days out of the country. But nope, apparently I “failed to provide any exceptional reasons in support of your out of time application”.
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They also considered my application with regards to my private life & decided that since I’m only 31 years old, I can “reintegrate back into life and society in India”. Oh and I can keep in touch with my UK friends through “modern communication” [cuz you know WhatsApp FTW]pic.twitter.com/OJl2XsEaka
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I’m aware that I’m hardly the first academic to go through this. Recent reports by
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Hardly surprising that under this govt, there is an attack on academics, which is driving away global researchers. Good luck building a ‘Global Britain’ (LOL) when you can’t even support global universities.
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