We drank lots of Veuve Clicquot afterwards.

Now we can get mortgages on decent conditions, and are basically as good as British in all things but 2: voting and travelling the world on a British passport. We also can recourse to public funds should we want to (NOT! so far)

They forgot about our application and we had to remind twice. At the second time, with red faces, the embarrassed workers called up the next time up, and put the stamps into passports within only 50 minutes instead of 90…

So now screw the immigration forums, no need to know about details of Work Permits, HSMP, promises to get everybody out.

Next year, there’s a great chance to become British!