After 2 years apart, my wife has now successfully been granted a visa for her son.
When we applied for the visa for my wife 2 years ago, due to financial constraints, we decided to wait and apply for her son when we had the money. Again because of unforeseen setbacks, it took longer than we had hoped.
Now that we were ready again, my wife returned to the Philippines and submitted the application last Friday 17th June. We were surprised to receive an email less than a week later to say the application had been processed, then after waiting a few days for the courier, the visa arrived today.