can we talk about how deliberately, purposefully cruel this is
@whitequark I'm already anxious about this for my wife when she reaches 5 years on her visa, as well as the 4k+ GBP we need to renew her visa in less than two years, god this entire thing is plainly racist and discriminatory
@Atatra that's why i thought it extremely important to get a 5 year GLT visa even though they charged like a metric fuckton for it as the "NHS surcharge" (doesn't go to the NHS)
@whitequark when we paid the 'nhs surcharge' for my wife's visa application, we pooled the entirety of both of our savings and came within 10's of pounds of not having enough, just barely scraped by. and while i'm glad now we have an income, how the hell are you meant to marry for love as a poor or disabled person without feeling like it's basically a paid privelige to choose someone who isn't born here
@Atatra i negotiated my employer paying that (mainly because between my ex stealing like 10k USD and not having access to the banking system i didn't have much choice)
@whitequark i am so sorry you had to go through that, hopefully things get a bit easier for all of us
@Atatra i decided to trust people a lot less and negotiate a lot more ruthlessly and now i'm at least no longer broke