The article says she’s a “legal permanent us resident”. It’s a little weird that she’s been living in the US for 37 years and never got her citizenship. I wonder what that’s about.
“I don’t care about this person’s suffering because they are here because of x instead of y”
Getting citizenship in a lot of countries is expensive.
My partners mother has lived in the UK since the late 80s, has been married to a british bloke for most of that time and has two kids that were born here by him.
Still only has indefinite leave to remain, no citizenship.
looks like it’ll be over £3000 if she wants to get it just for the application (i imagine it’d also be a good idea to instruct a solicitor). which, for a semi-retired carer that flies back to her home country for a month each year, is a lot of money
Ah, that makes some sense. Seems like a problem that really needs to be addressed, the last thing we need is more barriers (especially financial ones) to the legal process. We need to be encouraging people to claim all the rights and representation that they’re deserved.
