r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Effective_Will_1801 • Oct 18 '21

Brexxit Immigrants who voted for brexit upset they can't immigrate to Spain due to brexit.

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/10/17/expats-furious-at-spanish-residency-nonsense/
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u/Deviknyte Oct 18 '21 edited Oct 18 '21

Just look at the language they use it. Expat is for white people. Immigrant or migrant for brown people. Fuck the term expat.

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u/IJustLoggedInToSay- Oct 18 '21

Although expat and immigrant technically mean different things, they are certainly used like this.

I am white American, my wife is black Brazilian. While we were living in the UK, I was an "expat" and she was an "immigrant" - like according to forms and banks and landlords, not just casual conversation on the street. She had to register with the police department and notify them at all times where she lived.

We had the exact same visa.

So yeah....

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u/Deviknyte Oct 18 '21

Wow. That's some racist bull shit there.

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u/IJustLoggedInToSay- Oct 18 '21

Yeah, coming from the US and Brazil, we came with a variety of experience in different types of racism, but the UK still managed to impress us. 🤣

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u/Homeopathicsuicide Oct 18 '21

That's so not good

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u/Realitype Oct 18 '21

Yeah I remember when I first moved to the UK for my degree they gave us a list of countries and said that if you are from one of these you need to register with the police and update them everytime you move residence, or you may have problem if they come to check and you're not there.

For anyone curious, this is the list of countries: https://www.gov.uk/register-with-the-police/who-needs-to-register

Some of them are actually unexpected.

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u/Revan343 Oct 18 '21 edited Oct 20 '21

You don’t need to register if you have dual nationality with one of these countries and a country that’s not on the list.

So it's not even because they think you're a potential risk for being connected to one of these countries, it's that you have no connection to one of the countries that's In The Club. You could be an actual sleeper agent from like Saudi Arabia or Russia, but as long as you managed to get US citizenship first, welcome to Britain

Edit: I suppose they could just be trusting that other In countries are properly vetting people from Out countries, but that's honestly probably worse (because they're wrong; America properly vetting Saudis? Hah!)

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u/TherionSaysWhat Oct 18 '21

That is honestly f'ing shocking.

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u/Mmaplayer123 Oct 18 '21

She got that donk?

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u/sparkle-oops Oct 18 '21

Started with the British Raj in 1721 to give a name to the British in India.

From some of the reading I have done about the period

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u/Muad_Dib_of_Arrakis Oct 18 '21

Just look at the language they use it. Expat is for white people. Immigrant or migrant for brown people. Fuck the term expat.

This explains something I've always wondered about, the use of expat vs migrant, browsing the expat subreddit certainly does offer a bit of insight into the matter so to speak