> but this really is the sort of thing that email alerts (or IM alerts, or IRC alerts) should also work fine for. Except when you are asleep. And when it come

> but this really is the sort of thing that email alerts (or IM alerts, or IRC alerts) should also work fine for. Except when you are asleep. And when it comes to immigration, you are happy to be woken up in the middle of the night by a phone call when it means the difference between failure and success.