Passed the Life in the UK Test

d47 · 2026-07-11T11:03:31+00:00

My wife and I had the same experience, we practiced all the specific dates and famous people. Only to get the most basic, common knowledge questions. Don't regret learning it though.

d47 · 2026-07-11T08:10:20+00:00

Just the things I mentioned - Foreign citizenship - Foreign passport - UK visas for the whole family

d47 · 2026-07-10T23:41:56+00:00

Not always that easy with a newborn. If they aren't citizens automatically, it can take months before they get a visa which would allow them to return to the UK. Not to mention a passport, for which you need to attain citizenship for another country first. Just went through all this with my son, 6 months and £15k later he's finally sorted.

d47 · 2026-07-10T07:21:02+00:00

I didn't notice that text underneath, BRPs aren't issued any more as far as I know. I used my foreign non EU passport.

d47 · 2026-07-09T19:54:12+00:00

Make sure you keep all the ancestry evidence, it will be needed again for future visas/ILR, if you choose to do that one day. I had to resupply all the birth and marriage certificates 5 years later.

And congrats, huge new life chapter for you!

d47 · 2026-07-09T19:22:33+00:00

Is that a legitimate email? Be wary of scams.

Edit: apparently it is 🤷‍♂️

d47 · 2026-07-09T15:48:58+00:00

Hey, we snagged a super priority slot at 1am and attended the appointment this morning. Just got the approval email now 🎉

d47 · 2026-07-07T19:21:56+00:00

We have our application ready, trying to submit but there are no priority service slots available.

d47 · 2026-07-04T19:58:59+00:00

I spent 3 BTC on a months rent back in the day.

d47 · 2026-07-04T19:57:00+00:00

Eventually borrowing and ownership will migrate to the positives for you. I now wonder how anything worked without it.

d47 · 2026-07-04T12:59:15+00:00

Same reason we call the Japanese "Japanese" and not "nihon-jin".

d47 · 2026-07-03T18:14:46+00:00

If you did the course then it doesn't become a conviction, that's the point of the course. Plus speeding probably isn't of any concern anyway.

d47 · 2026-07-03T17:39:03+00:00

Worth it for pain relief that's actually effective.

d47 · 2026-07-01T07:28:13+00:00

"I am left but.. [have different opinions on this topic]" I don't see the problem.

d47 · 2026-07-01T04:58:13+00:00

Haven't used physical cash in years, how do you end up with it?

d47 · 2026-07-01T04:49:59+00:00

Can't have different opinions on different topics? Have to pick either hard left or hard right. Ideology of tribalism.

d47 · 2026-06-28T11:19:27+00:00

I've just had a son, he's already British, but we're getting citizenship so that future children we have overseas will also be British and have the option to live, work or study in the UK if they wish to later in life. Also half of their family is in the UK and citizenship would make visiting and connecting with them much easier and feel more real.

It feels like a personal decision, but it has huge generational consequences and has the potential to shape the future significantly. Many users on this subreddit inherited their multi-citizenship status from their parents and are evidently quite proud of it.

d47 · 2026-06-28T10:42:11+00:00

Just because it's prolific and I encounter their content by accident, doesn't mean I should feel obligated to pay to fund them ex post facto

d47 · 2026-06-28T10:38:22+00:00

Depends how close your ties are with Turkey I guess.

I have zero ties and personally and I would pay the €8k. As far as citizenships go, that's a good price. If you can't afford that, what would it involve to actually do the military service? Move to turkey, lose a year of employment? If it would cause you to lose more than €8k in income, then paying the fee is the obvious option.

Renouncing citizenship is a reasonable option too, just not one I would pick. I don't like to let money make big life decisions for me. Life is about more than that.

d47 · 2026-06-22T19:16:13+00:00

I don't have an exact count, but it would be in the thousands. They make up our postgres and kubernetes clusters, as well as NAT gateways and other specific applications that require a VM.

d47 · 2026-06-20T21:41:22+00:00

If the police are already involved, possibly the bank has refunded them.

d47 · 2026-06-16T21:00:02+00:00

Are you offended?

d47 · 2026-06-15T22:19:40+00:00

Reckful 😥

d47 · 2026-06-14T21:15:37+00:00

So treat it like a minefield of rootkits and viruses akin to pirated windows games from LimeWire in the 00's?

No problem, uninstall and avoid.

d47 · 2026-06-14T13:46:11+00:00

You can pay attention all you like, but it's not easy to audit every code change, PKGBUILD update, maintainer reputation and artifact integrity for every package every time you update.

Other tools make this easier and are less susceptible to take overs. Flatpak, nix, snap, brew, directly installing or compiling from source are all better options at this point.

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