We are..

...soon to be British Citizens!

Well, we already are, as we received word via letter from the Home Office this morning (yes, a Saturday morning during a bank holiday) that our application for citizenship has been approved!

Yay!

!!does the dance of joy!!

The letter states that we will within two weeks receive an invitation to attend a citizenship ceremony after which we can apply for our British passports.

This of course means that we can now hop on the ferry to go to France with no worrying about getting stupid visas. We can visit lastminute.com and fly wherever our little hearts desire. Within reason, of course.

It has still not sunk in 100%. I think it will be more real once we do our citizenship ceremony and then send off for our passports.

After five years plus and a horrendous six months of waiting after sending loads of money into the Home Office and our only passports, we got an answer. Is it worth it, I hear you wonder...why yes, yes it is, dear heart.

It isn't until you realise how difficult it is for the rest of the world (speaking of South Africans and other antipodeans and other nefarious characters from other dubious countries) to visit anywhere in the world. The amount of time and money wasted on standing in lines outside of shitty embassies in the rain and snow and temperatures below zero, the hours of taking off work to go to interviews to try and explain why you would like to visit their country, how you have to bend over backwards to prove that you have a job to come back to, that you have enough money in your bank account to sustain yourself whilst on holiday in said country...

Yes the wait was worth it. Now all we have to do is decide where to travel to...