@skinnylatte Nae stress, thanks for taking the time; he's already found a decent Pakistani place in IST from the Google Maps reviews, so I'll write down anywhere else he finds particularly good.
@skinnylatte Mm, Evan Edinger has a whole set of videos on his tribulations on the journey to British citizenship; this video in particular talks about the total cost of the steps/applications/visas involved. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvzTOmEPYyE
My wife's thankfully out the other side of that whole process, and we can finally burn six years of post and letters we've been saving as proofs of continual residence...
@skinnylatte@amydentata I've lamented in the past how there doesn't seem to be another place like /r/ukpolitics for current events where I am in the world... Let me dig the hazmat suit out of storage and try it out later.
@mattly There's a whiff of bad development lifecycle to this one in particular, I feel, especially with county coming after state. It smacks of a design being produced with a typo on that field, and a dev team with zero power to push back on a design once it's Come Down From On High.