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Yup. I think a lot of this is Goodhart's law in action. You measure a bureaucracy's effectiveness by how many people it can kick out / refuse and this is what h
by conjectures 8y ago
Yup. I think a lot of this is Goodhart's law in action. You measure a bureaucracy's effectiveness by how many people it can kick out / refuse and this is what happens.
The guy unfortunately represented easy deportation points due to making an honest mistake. No discretion was used because of the above.
The practical solution is to use a good immigration lawyer for stuff like this. It sucks, it's unfair, but it's true.
- cm2187 8y agoAgree. I am not aware of any hostility toward US immigration in the UK, this is just the Home Office being bureaucratically unhelpful. Having gone through the naturalisation process myself after the Brexit vote, and without a lawyer, I can confirm that even for EU nationals the rules are as clear as mud. And the fees are clearly designed to prevent a cleaning lady from applying.