The Enormous Citizenship Form

As Whitney is still somehow under the impression that I have ambitions to become a citizen of this country, I've been looking at the form that you have to fill in in order to apply. From what I can tell from the instructions, having gone through all of the fiancee visa and residence processes and paid a fee for them to look at each one, I'm now required to come in through the naturalization process, which costs $675. (Generously, there is also an "Application for Posthumous citizenship" that costs nothing to file if you only want to start becoming a citizen after you've died.)

Dealing with the immigration services or any of their forms is like a constant reminder of the futility of everything you do in life, but I've worked out that I fall under category 2 of the groups of people who can apply for citizenship, having been a permanent resident retroactively for three years AND married to the same US citizen for three years AND that citizen has also been a citizen for three years. Firefox is so disgusted by the pair of them that it just crashes when you try to view them in it (but it's Adobe Reader - this isn't exactly unusual for it), so after downloading the instructions (7 pages including Paperwork Reduction Act note) and form (14 sections, 10 pages), let's have a look at the questions that I have to answer this time...

( The Great Inquisition )

That's a whole lot of money saved, then.