Just call me Madz, 32 years old, married to a british citizen, currently in the Philippines with our daughter for my settlement visa!...I gave birth in the UK last Sept 2009, had to come home just for the said purpose!....

Brief history of our relationship:
We both worked in a diamond mine in Angola Africa.
2003 - we met and became friends
2005 - started a meaningful relationship and we decided to live in together in the project's accommodation a few weeks later
2006 - we got engaged and still living & working together in Angola
2007 - we got married in Mauritius, I applied a multiple 2 years visa to enter the UK in Luanda Angola, was then granted...
2008 - my 1st and 2nd visit (my usual itineraries were Africa/Heathrow)
2009 - sometime Feb entered the UK again, I got pregnant and gave birth in the UK.
May 2009 - while I was there, we queried for a settlement visa and wasn't possible to get from there, so we applied for an extension of my visit visa at the Home Office due to medical grounds by end of0 July.
Sept 2009 - I gave birth
March 2010 - it was only then that I received my passport back with the temporary residence permit for 42 days.
April 2010 - had flown back to the Philippines with our daughter

Started processing all the requirements but unfortunately, it took us ages to get our NSO documents!, and it was around early November that I got everything sorted. So set an appointment for the 26th, went to the VFS office only to realize that there was a mistake on the MC.

My problem started here!!...I was just a few days late not to take the English test, but it was ok, its just that we had to spare extra money for the examination fee + the question of how long we had to wait for the result to get here to be able to proceed in lodging my application.

November 30, just a day after they implemented this new ruling I took the test, mind you I was the 1st applicat for settlement visa in STUDY CONNECT.

7 days passed, I didn't hear any news...so I phoned up only to realize that my certificate wasn't on the 1st batch that EMD UK had sent through. They queried....10, 20 days passed still got no infos from them!...I was so upset...so it wasn't a great Christmas though...

Christmas & new year was over yet still didn't receive any infos from them, phoned up couple of times but I always got an unsatisfactory answers from STUDY CONNECT!...Only within this week that I got both soft & hard copies of my result, apparently, when I checked the details they put a wrong passport number!

Now I have to wait for another couple of days to get the revised one! What annoys me is that, I paid P14k to take the test but the actual fee is only 7500p for normal turnaround of 10-15 days and if u opt for express its only 10,200p...in this case, I should have been given an extra effort to get my result/certificate done in less than 10 days.....

I literally got everything ready, only waiting for the revised A1 test result....for when? I don't know...

Your comments is more than welcome guys!... I need your prayers that after a long wait I will finally get my visa.

Good luck to all of us & God bless xxxxx