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Anyone else up for some more #immigrant diaries?

@ukgovcamp
@FlipboardUK
@ anyone else who might want a 'fun' story about how much I 'love' living here.

I got an email.

"Link your eVisa to your account"

Following the initial process, you need to confirm your identity on the UK Immigration ID Check app.
The app is not available on my iPad.
The UK ID check (different app!) is not usable by UK Visas and Immigration.
My /e/ OS phone is not accepted by the Immigration ID Check app because I modified it to have that OS.
My partner's phone has the app, but the camera *refuses* to actually photograph my BRP.

so I get the 'lol try again, idiot' error message.
Except I have, and now I can't. (Even if I could and did, the camera in their app is the gd problem.)

Aaaaaand I can't get a 'share code' from online because I started linking my eVISA whatever.

So. The advice: is to share, with employers, etc:

My plastic BRP photocard.

The thing that share codes are supposed to replace.
The thing that I need to get the share codes.

The thing that the eVISA is supposed to replace (maybe??) next.
That also requires it to link the account.

#brexit #uk #GeneralElectionUK #election #conservatives #tories #benefits #vote #vote2024 #uk_election #british #BritishComedy #english #england #NaturalEngland #ImmigrantLife #immigration #border #borderControl

#bureaucracy #disabled #HappyPrideMonth

Oh yeah, did I mention I can't get a new BRP easily because my USA passport allows 'X' gender (yaaay!) and the UK computer systems don't?

I had to call and ask wtf was going on months later.

(The dude who answered was super apologetic and nice about it, but he shouldn't have had to apologise for a ridiculous system failure. There should always be an 'unknown / prefer not to answer / other' option on ANY question. Dare I say it? Should be the default value.)

Still no idea what's going on with that.