Stop work order for maintenance of emergency weather radio stations.  https://bsky.app/profile/geocollaborate.bsky.social/post/3lu4tgtq3as2n

This is pretty close to declaring war on the people who depend on these stations for warning of severe weather. In the middle of tornado and flash-flood season, and the start of hurricane season. Bloody hell!

No, wait, it's incompetence again - https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/nx-s1-5356166/noaa-contracts-reviewed-one-by-one


And Trump administration pauses research on flooding risk -  https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-administration-pauses-research-database-113002061.html

I'm no expert here, but I did find this online -  https://www.davidsonmorris.com/spouse-visa-extension/

Perhaps it might apply to your daughter-in-law's situation?  I'm sure others will be able to give you more advice.

Good luck to her!

Hi, I am a Brit and have the most wonderful American daughter-in-law who married my son in 2015. She had a spouse Visa initially, and had one child in the UK, They left in October 2018 to live in Florida, but it didn’t work out. They returned to the UK in May 2020 on a further Spouse Visa. They are now very well established in the UK meeting all the necessary criteria to remain. They have two children both born in the UK, and a further child due on 5 September.

Having discovered that they can apply now for ILR , and with the spouse Visa running out on 31 August they decided to crack on with things only to discover that her US passport had expired. They attended the embassy to request a new one and apparently this was posted out a week ago, but has not yet arrived.
Technically at this point in time with no passport she is unable to apply for either FLR or ILR, the latter of course being her preference. But the clock is ticking on her current Visa, and she cannot book the necessary life in the UK test until her passport comes back. With the baby due 5 September, and the possibility it could arrive at any time, it is all getting too stressful for words.

Can I please ask the following:

What is the likely lead time on booking the test, and is the result immediate. She is likely to be doing it in Reading. Do you get a choice of dates and locations when applying?

It may be a very unlikely “what if” at present but if her passport does not arrive in time presumably she would have to leave the UK before 31 August when the current visa runs out, even though she has two UK children here at school, and of course by 31 August she will be just five days away from a C-section birth. It is causing a lot of lost sleep! I’m guessing there is no mechanism for seeking a slight agreed overstay because of medical circumstances (imminent birth/too late to fly)?

Now he says he wants to deport Rosie O’donnel, even though she was born in NY. I would have thought this was not possible but after the stuff happening in recent weeks I just don’t know. Her father was an immigrant from Belfast but her mother was a natural born citizen, in NY.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/12/politics/rosie-odonnell-donald-trump

Gonna be hard to deport her, since she took her kids and moved to Ireland, and is applying for citizenship there. (Ah, to have Irish ancestry and children under 18 years = ticket to citizenship for her and her children!)

According to the Constitution, and at least one major Supreme Court case, he can't do it. She is a birthright citizen.  End of discussion. But since the court is packed with right-of-center judges who seem willing to support Trump, who the flip knows anymore what he'll do and then have to argue after-the-fact in the court system.

Entered the country legally, teen grabbed by ICE at immigration hearing - https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/spring-valley-high-school-student-detained-by-ice/

"Alan is one of several local students who have been taken into ICE custody. In early June, ICE agents detained an 11th grader from Queens outside a local courthouse during a scheduled immigration appointment, and in late May, a Bronx high school student was taken into custody following an immigration hearing."

Why did I know in advance it would be a brown guy? Most important quote -   "Pierre is a native of Haiti and a United States citizen."