Got the letter from the border agency this morning ( Read more... )

I can hardly believe it. I didn't expect it at all. It's almost as if one of the immigration nazis has a heart. That can't be right. There must be some other motive for this that I can't yet see. I don't much care, I'm walking on air right now, such a great weight has been lifted. Not on cloud nine - that one gets saved for actually getting ( Read more... )

Figured I'd write up how the test went. A former LJ friend of mine wrote up hers after she took it a few years back, and it was very useful for me to have read it before I took mine; maybe mine will be useful to others one day, or maybe it'll just be a good record of this particular hoop I've jumped through, for myself.

( clickety for the blow-by-blow )

I PASSED I PASSED!!!

Yay, I have finished posting June 2010!

The new ones start here:
http://gallery.starforge.co.uk/v/myst/2010/DSCF3475.jpg.html

108 new ones this time, which goes through the end of my parents' visit, including our trip to Bakewell (and its International Day ( Read more... )

Well, dammit ( Read more... )

WOOHOOO! My visa is here! Here, in my hot little hands! And it's right!

So my visa application package has been some places ... see if you can spot the interesting line:

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I'M GOING HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am very, very sick and tired of the notion that because I'm American, the immigration process for me to the UK should be easy, a done deal, guaranteed, a walk in the park ( Read more... )