As per a British friend's Canadian wife who is coming to the end of her second 2.5-year spouse visa, UKVI is apparently refusing to process indefinite leave to remain visas for people on spouse visas! They have given no reason for this, simply saying that they can't accept them at this time and to keep checking the UKVI website for updates. They're allowing those eligible for ILR whose visas are about to expire the 'luxury' of being able to apply for an extension of their current visas, at a cost of £900 plus £500 'NHS surcharge' (this latter fee a disgraceful way to make immigrants pay for their healthcare, even though most immigrants in the UK work and thus pay taxes that contribute to NHS costs). This is absolutely outrageous. ILR is a prerequisite for naturalisation applications, so what this is doing is putting people's citizenship plans on hold and setting them back for who knows how long. UKVI is an utter disgrace, and the fact that their own incompetence and, frankly, lack of capacity to handle the volume of applications they receive is causing serious harm to people's immigration status and life plans is horrifying. I wish more people understood the shameful way immigrants were treated in this country. I wish they cared.

Went to an anti-Brexit protest, and then a birthday party where we spoke Welsh and sang lots of Swedish and/or Eurovision songs.

Back when I didn't have British citizenship, I used to have nightmares where the process of applying for a visa involved lying still and not reacting while Home Office flunkies took it in turns to gun me down. (This is not uncommon. One of my other migrant friends used to have nightmares of being dragged out of his bed at night by immigration officials.) At one point I was so stressed about my immigration status that it affected my ability to work, and I had to go to counselling. The fact that EU residents (and their non-EU family members) here in the UK have now lived for more than nine months in legal limbo, with no information or reassurances about their ongoing right to live and work in the place they have made their home is unconscionable. Immigration is scary enough when you have a clear understanding of the rules and guidelines, and how long you'll be allowed to stay, and what you have to do to be able to continue staying. The fact that EU residents have not been given even that information is an outrage. It's morally reprehensible.