I'm getting married! To someone from LJ! Again!

[joellevand]

 Yes, I'm absolutely marrying deathboy

...who posted the news on here faster than I could because LastPass wouldn't remember my password and I had to reset it.

I absolutely love Scott to pieces, more than words can say, and since we met via LiveJournal, it seemed only right to announce it on here--months after we announced it to the rest of the world.

But

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[catyak]

Congratulations!

And good luck with the UK's immigration system. We did it back in 1998 when it was a lot easier, and they closed a lot of doors behind us (wasn't our fault though). Then we did the US version as well for good measure.

[joellevand]

Oh, i know. We're 18 weeks into the 24 week wait for family visas from outside the UK. It's been a longer and more convoluted process than bringing my ex from the UK to the US, which was just over a 5 month wait from application to arrival, but was as straight forward as apply, wait, interview, visa.

[catyak]

Ours was fairly straightforward for UK entry, filled in the paperwork, it was a phone interview with the consulate in LA (while chatting to me on-line), wait a bit, then the visa arrived. I don't know what the process is now, but back then it was a fiancee visa, which had to be swapped out after getting married to a 1-year visa, which then got swapped for a permanent one at the end of the year. Coming the other way was more complex with medicals and a trip to London to the US embassy, but at least the end result was a green card straight off. It helped that by then we'd been married for several years and had a child, so it was clearly not a marriage just to get a green card. Oh, and lots of $$$ (or £££).

[joellevand]

Currently, UK process is

[catyak]

Back last century there was no biometrics requirement so we didn't need that part. I have vague recollection that it didn't take that long either, given that we got engaged in September and Susan was in the country at the start of February.

As for people dying, I don't think it was that unexpected, and I was fully expecting the chaos and disruption the event caused too, just based on a previous death in a car crash in Paris.

I don't know what they consider "not straightforward", but if there's enough income and a place to live so you're not a burden to the state, and you're not on some sh*t-list in MI5/6 then it ought to be straightforward. I remember being asked to provide proof I owned my house, to which I responded by asking what they considered constituted proof (mortgage statement was OK, it turned out, even though that wasn't proof I was living in the house, and also showed that the bank owned more of it than I did at the time).