Mx Verda<p>Anyone else up for some more <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigrant</span></a> diaries? </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/@ukgovcamp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ukgovcamp</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@FlipboardUK" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>FlipboardUK</span></a></span> <br>@ anyone else who might want a 'fun' story about how much I 'love' living here.</p><p>I got an email.</p><p>"Link your eVisa to your account"</p><p>Following the initial process, you need to confirm your identity on the UK Immigration ID Check app.<br>The app is not available on my iPad. <br>The UK ID check (different app!) is not usable by UK Visas and Immigration. <br>My /e/ OS phone is not accepted by the Immigration ID Check app because I modified it to have that OS. <br>My partner's phone has the app, but the camera *refuses* to actually photograph my BRP.</p><p>so I get the 'lol try again, idiot' error message.<br>Except I have, and now I can't. (Even if I could and did, the camera in their app is the gd problem.)</p><p>Aaaaaand I can't get a 'share code' from online because I started linking my eVISA whatever.</p><p>So. The advice: is to share, with employers, etc:</p><p>My plastic BRP photocard.</p><p>The thing that share codes are supposed to replace. <br>The thing that I need to get the share codes.</p><p>The thing that the eVISA is supposed to replace (maybe??) next. <br>That also requires it to link the account.</p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>brexit</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/GeneralElectionUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralElectionUK</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/tories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tories</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>benefits</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vote</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/vote2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vote2024</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/uk_election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uk_election</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/british" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>british</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/BritishComedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishComedy</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>english</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/england" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>england</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/NaturalEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalEngland</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/ImmigrantLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImmigrantLife</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immigration</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/border" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>border</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/borderControl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>borderControl</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/bureaucracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bureaucracy</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disabled</span></a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/HappyPrideMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HappyPrideMonth</span></a> </p><p>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? </p><p>I had to call and ask wtf was going on months later. </p><p>(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.)</p><p>Still no idea what's going on with that.</p>