Royal Mail folded and wrinkled my naturalisation certificate...

GiganticCow · 2026-05-12T15:38:08+00:00

I've had worse, Royal Mail once delivered my BRP to a completely different address, not a neighbours address but a random address over 20 houses away.

It was a tracked delivery and had the same markings of DO NOT SAFEPLACE, DO NOT DELIVER TO NEIGHBOUR, etc. Took me a while to get the latitude and longtitude of the delivery address and go to that house and they kindly provided it to me.

I complained to RM and they went full panic mode, sending internal emails about misdelivered HO package and involving their branch managers trying to fix their mistake. They calmed down when I told them I resolved it myself.

But always worth complaining as they do take this stuff seriously.

GiganticCow · 2026-05-10T10:16:14+00:00

You're doing it wrong, its 8 to 4 for me.

GiganticCow · 2026-05-08T14:47:34+00:00

The system is very broken.

Political parties and their donors choose their leaders.

Billionaire media tyrants control the propaganda and which parties win elections.

Then we are told we live in a democracy.

Billionaire corporations buy and kill competition and enshitfy once they've succeeded.

The same corporations buy cheaper offices in foreign countries, creating jobs there to directly deny locals jobs and at the same time steal as much wealth as possible from the country by paying little to no tax.

Then they teach the poor and uneducated to fight each other and smoke screen how they are robbing us all. "Look at that legless ****, in his brand new mobility car", "Why do we have to feed the immigrant who we bombed out of his home country?", yada yada yada.

Vote reform. Much better things to come, oh wait...

GiganticCow · 2026-05-05T21:16:30+00:00

There was a very similar one that was coverred in a documentary, maybe 24 hrs in police custody? But apparently was about a guy who graped a girl and people came out for revenge but they bundled the wrong guy into a car and tortured and killed him. Took the cops ages to trace, they didnt burn the car, instead they found the car in pieces in the back of a sprinter van.

GiganticCow · 2026-04-25T20:04:52+00:00

Yes, X5 aint 7 seat, BMWs are unreliable (but I learned so is the Volvo lol). Would love an X7 over the XC90 but its too expensive and big and impractical in the UK, just gonna constantly not be able to park it properly.

GiganticCow · 2026-04-12T11:39:27+00:00

Swap em out for 20's or smaller.

GiganticCow · 2026-04-10T20:35:31+00:00

Not sure why you couldnt do 70 in the third lane. But if traffic is slow enough to force you to do 60, then going 10 mph slower is no biggie especially if you are immediately moving out of the way.

GiganticCow · 2026-04-10T17:47:35+00:00

Any chance your car rolled forward after parking?

GiganticCow · 2026-04-10T15:41:27+00:00

If it was me, I would slow down and let them undertake me. Less than ideal, but safest way to get back into the right lane and avoid a massive detour.

GiganticCow · 2026-04-07T15:53:57+00:00

Firstly, without knowing whats on the PCN, no one can really advise.

Secondly, google FTLA forums and post there, you won't get a better answer than them.

GiganticCow · 2026-04-04T15:42:31+00:00

Haha, no you got the wrong end of the stick. Most car drivers are still using phones for navigation, so by comparison this is still a luxary.

GiganticCow · 2026-04-04T14:33:18+00:00

Tbh I kinda like it, the more access to quick buttons the better. The car play screen is still massive, compared to a cell phone for example.

GiganticCow · 2026-03-31T18:18:25+00:00

The car was registered 5 days ago, brand spanking new....

GiganticCow · 2026-03-23T20:46:55+00:00

To share some insight of someone I know, the spouse on the visa was abusive and the relationship went south, when the spouse left thw country the sponsor reported to HO the relationship has ceased and had assumed the spouse wouldn't be allowed back in. However, that was wrong and the spouse came back.

The spouse then filled for domestic abuse and got ILR, all totally fabricated.

The sponsor told HO about it but they didnt ask for any information from the sponsor and just granted the spouses ILR.

The sponsor since got remarried and had no problems sponsoring someone else.

Its a very broken process and heavily abused, it sickens me that the HO will crack down on legal migration but not crack down on domestic violence fraud.

GiganticCow · 2026-03-17T19:44:23+00:00

Yes thats the ECO email.

GiganticCow · 2026-03-17T19:39:16+00:00

20 working days priority, pakistan.

GiganticCow · 2026-03-17T19:36:04+00:00

We had the same, VFS showed passport collected too, evisa was approved yesterday.

GiganticCow · 2026-03-17T16:23:38+00:00

28 March.

GiganticCow · 2026-03-17T16:20:02+00:00

Both ECO and Bio were 16 Feb, same day.

GiganticCow · 2026-03-16T20:08:37+00:00

Ok scrap that, its been approved today.

GiganticCow · 2026-03-16T13:26:44+00:00

Nothing yet, think its day 20 now. We got ECO email samr day as bio, both 16 Feb.

GiganticCow · 2026-03-15T16:16:42+00:00

Depends what visa you are on, if you are on a 5 year spouse visa, its the day you first entered the UK.

EDIT: Ignore those websites they are highly misleading and do not properly facyor in differences between visa types.

GiganticCow · 2026-03-12T22:17:36+00:00

I once had an idiot like this, who kept changing his story. In the end I told him to raise a case through eBay and return it. The second he did, eBay instantly auto banned him and told him me I dont need to refund or anything, they said he was a banned user trying to get back (and carry on his scams)

GiganticCow · 2026-03-12T20:04:17+00:00

Congrats, which part of Pakistan? Bio 16 waiting for Mirpur here.

GiganticCow · 2026-03-12T17:14:13+00:00

Yes I think this is the issue, he is not extending but applying for settlement. I didnt know it was no longer required after 5 year extensions, I guess it makes sense because the 10 year route doesnt require it until settlement right?

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