About a month ago, I posted about sending off my application for British Citizenship to the never-never land that is the Home Office. Advice on the Home Office website said it could be anywhere between three and six months before I heard anything, so I braced myself for the worst.
Saturday morning, I noticed a thin letter with a Liverpool post code in our front hallway. My heart sank. The Home Office was in Liverpool - they must be contacting me to tell me I've missed out something. I tore it open and out fell... an invitation to attend my citizenship ceremony on May 25! My application had been approved in just a month -- and I now declare May 25 to be my British Birthday.
I will never bad-mouth the Home Office again. (Not that I ever did in the first place, of course. I love you, Home Office, if you're reading this...). Just one request: can you please relocate my passport and driver's license, as they appear to be MIA?
Bring on the Yorkshire Pudding. Bring on the warm ale. I'm in, baby!
9 comments:
Great news! Congrats!
Congratulations!
Congratulations!! {^_^}
Congratulations! I'd celebrate by eating a lot of chips.
I'm dead jealous. Congratulations!
Bravo!!! Félicitations
Thanks, everyone! :)
Welcome to Blighty!
Remember: tea is always served piping hot, gravy is needed to go with that Yorkshire pudding and a day with 10 minutes of sunshine justifies the wearing of shorts :-)
Huge congratulations! That's so awesome. Drink tea, eat shortbread, scones with jam and cream (clotted cream, none of that regular stuff), strawberries....
Yay! Welcome to our crazy world :D
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