I asked if I could speak to a supervisor; no, there wasn't anyone higher around than the woman I was dealing with. Could I call the relevant office for help? No; it was Saturday, nobody would answer. The office was closed. So we had to turn around and drive right back home.
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The entire 5 years we lived in the UK - as well-off, white, English-speaking, Commonwealth citizens - the UK visa authority was a hostile, incomprehensible, unpleasant, stressful entity to deal with. That's it's baseline mode: it is profoundly more vile to anyone less privileged.
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It's a cold, hard fact that dealing with the UK visa authority trashed both my husband's and my mental health and left us in a financial hole which, without the support of solvent, caring family members, we would never have climbed out of. Years later, we're only just recovering.
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How an entity so comprehensively dedicated to intransigence and bureaucratic pettifogging can possibly hope to deal with the hugely expanded workload necessitated by a hard
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In all respects, the UK visa authority almost perfectly fits the description that Douglas Adams famously gave to his Vogons: "Not actually evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous" - the "almost" is because these days, yeah: they actually ARE evil, too.
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In conclusion: the marriage of xenophobia and bureaucratic incompetence is one of the ugliest in the modern world, and that's saying something. The UK isn't alone in perpetuating this particular evil, so let it be a lesson to everyone on a similar path to FIX THAT SHIT NOW. FIN
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What a freaking clusterf**k. D= I'm sorry you had to go through that. =(
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Woweeeeeeee that is extreme, to say the very least without swearing!!! (Un)believable what we're coming to. Seriously (un)believable what we've become. Gutted for you, tbh
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Seriously, if they are treating you with patrial status like this, what chance do the Windrushers have???? We're going to hell in hand basket, that much is obvious and with the terrifyingly threatening prospect of a Boris PM, maybe change handbasket to super sonic jet.
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AAAAAARGH7I CAN'T FREAKING BELIEVE THIS!!! They do this on purpose I SWEAR
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They genuinely do
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