Just to confirm the office open.

However, it is still an absolute joke operation run by clown shoes. After taking a long time to get an appointment, a new thing, on this it actually used to be sort of okay, I was reintroduced to the ineptitude only possible from anything remotely connected to the British Embassy.

I turned up for my appointment this morning for a basic passport renewal, and told I couldn't take my laptop or phone into the office - no problem I thought, last time I was there a few years back I put it in the locker outside and got on with the other painful processes inside the office. Today? No dice! There is no longer a security dude who you can leave valuables with - even your phone. So if you go alone without anyone to hang around outside for you holding your phone, you're absolutely f8ked. What a company. If anyone knows who runs this shit show, I'd love to know. My complaints are met by the generic "VFS Global apologises ..."... "Yours Sincerely, VFS Global". Faceless. Clueless.

VFS are one of those hopelessly inept, utterly useless organisations that seem to survive like cockroaches. I fully believe that they are utilised as an actual bottle neck to slow things down deliberately.
They’ve been spreading their influence globally, and I’ll happily conclude that they do so with the aid of brown envelopes suitably stuffed.