Sigh

    Still not a whole lot of progress. I'm now in a hotel in NYC (with this view, tons better than the last, no?), right around the corner from the UK Embassy. I went in to said office this morning with the intent of speaking to someone about my situation. Turns out they won't even let you in the door without an appointment and won't tell you how to get one.
    We called up the company that handles UK visas to see if they had any advice for my situation. "Well, you wouldn't have needed a visa before, but since you were denied entry, you now need one." (That neat little piece of advice cost no less than $12.) So then, with a significant amount of help from the folks at Earlham's IPO (specifically Jennifer, the assistant director; wonderful person), I've got a stack of supporting documents and a visa app to hand in. It requires an agency here to take biometric data though and the closest ones won't take an appointment until Friday. The full visa app can't be handed in until after the biometrics are taken.
    All in, I'm here for a while still. Since I'm not getting biometrics done until Friday, that means the app won't be received by the office until Friday afternoon (that is, if I can physically hand it in, otherwise sometime Monday) and then I have to wait a couple of days for it to be processed and then sent back to me.

    So... end of next week maybe I'll be back in London... Meanwhile, hello NYC.

    Oh yeah, did I mention my hotel's internet sucks? Fortunately there are Starbucks and similar...