"Having a passport and a having home are two very different things; one does not guarantee the other." Exactly--much of my book Ashes and Stones is about this. I, too, saw the writing on the wall when Teresa May issued her hostile environment master plan. I became a citizen because I'd lived in the UK so long I had no other home-- though the process was equally absurd, hellish and costly. My 'otherness' still begins British interviews and most casual conversations--I don't have an accent that passes as native. The question I most remember about the life in the UK test was "What time do pubs close?" The law had changed the week before and the new policy, based on different licences, wasn't listed in the answers. Thanks for another fascinating post!
"Having a passport and a having home are two very different things; one does not guarantee the other." Exactly--much of my book Ashes and Stones is about this. I, too, saw the writing on the wall when Teresa May issued her hostile environment master plan. I became a citizen because I'd lived in the UK so long I had no other home-- though the process was equally absurd, hellish and costly. My 'otherness' still begins British interviews and most casual conversations--I don't have an accent that passes as native. The question I most remember about the life in the UK test was "What time do pubs close?" The law had changed the week before and the new policy, based on different licences, wasn't listed in the answers. Thanks for another fascinating post!
To have fish and chips EVERY LUNCH.
I think there are three correct answers, four if you are middle class.