Weeknotes #350

I had been hoping to submit an application to renew my residency visa before 1 October when new fees that substantially increase the price for applications come into effect. Alas, as you might expect, everyone else also had this hope and I was unsuccessful. Specifically, what happened was that I had planned to use the Immigration Services Agency’s website to lodge my application from the comfort of my very own home (I have not forgotten what happened last time). I had been organised enough to visit my nearby government office and get the documents I’d needed. On Monday, I opened up the Immigration Services Agency website and joined the Queue. (The agency had been organised enough to put in place CloudFlare’s waiting room system to ensure that everyone wasn’t simply hammering ‘refresh’ as hard as they could.) That took seven hours but I got through and was all ready to make my application. Unfortunately, I had not been organised enough to check whether I was going to need anything…