Life Wrecking Update
Monday, March 14th, 2005 at 1636Well, the Home Office appears to be less sympathetic to legal hardworking migrants than Adolph Hitler was to people called Goldstein.
We’ve been calling around like mad for the last working day (Convenient how they send rejections on Friday, then promptly close their offices for 48 hours) and are making a little progress here and there. Aparrently if we take it to appeal it can take an age to come to a hearing, by which time we’ll have the bank statements they so ravenously lust after.
Also, to those who repeatedly suggest we get married, we have been told on good authority that now her application has been rejected if we get married she’ll be deported so fast she won’t need a plane ticket, much more a pair of teflon pants to ease her landing when her kicked-arse screetches to a halt somewhere in Melbourne.
We’ve written to our MP. We’re seeking legal advice. Well, we WOULD be seeking advice, but get this… The Leicester Immigration Advice service is only open 9:30-12:30. No, not daily. Just on a Monday. HOLY WTF BATMAN. Then when I called the Leicester Law Centre, they close early too, so we have to wait until tomorrow to get ourselves a local lawyer. I spoke to a lovely guy in London who’s an immigration specialist, but at 100 notes just to chat to the guy I guess he can afford to be nice to everyone.
If we can’t find anyone local we’ll have to cough up, getting this sorted is more important than money, and we’ll no doubt find it somewhere.
One white male backside, no previous owners, appearing on an internet auction site near you soon…
