I’m really tired of dealing with the folks at Homeland Security. I understand they have a job to do but there’s only so many times I can be asked to hand over $600 before I feel like pulling my teeth out. Next thing you know the Home Office will be asking me to cough up another grand to solidify my UK visa. Wait a minute…they already have. <\/p>\n
I know it could be worse. I could be having to hand out money to an overpriced solicitor as well. Or I could be stuck in limbo somewhere mid-Atlantic because neither country will let both of us land. But that’s just me being melodramatic – something The Euro says I MUST work on. <\/p>\n
I’ve been filling out immigration forms pretty steadily for about ten years now; wholly by choice because if you fancy living in a country other than your own it’s just the price you pay. But these last two years have become really tedious. <\/p>\n
To be fair, immigration procedures are pretty straight forward* as long as you read the manual. But reading the manual isn’t something most people like to do. They’d rather pay Joe Barrister to do it for them. And even those of us who do read it get bored after a while. Especially if we’re following the instructions. <\/p>\n
*Small caveat: Straightforward if you’re a normal Brit trying to get into America or a normal American trying to get into Britain. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m really tired of dealing with the folks at Homeland Security. I understand they have a job to do but there’s only so many times I can be asked to hand over $600 before I feel like pulling my teeth out. Next thing you know the Home Office will be asking me to cough up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}