Hello Everyone I hope you're all havin a great New Year!!
I'm Adam Grace's Fiancee and it's my first time to write here, I've been reading threads here that are indeed very much useful, thanks a lot to this forum, anyways our problem is this:
Grace lodged her application last 15th of Nov. 2011 and after almost a month (6th of Dec, 2011) Grace got a call from the Brit Embassy people and asked her where is her original english certificate and only gave her until 16th of Dec, 2011 to give it to them and send via courier. (after talking to the Brit embassy people, Grace called the Theodolite centre about it and asked where is her certificate, and as usual they kept on saying to us "WE ARE STILL CHASING IT UNTIL NOW" and obviously this is not good because we've waited for ages already.
(for you to understand why the ECO finds Grace's original cert.)
(Grace took her exam in the THEODOLITE CENTRE in Cebu, and i tell y'all that this centre is so useless, we've waited the certificate for 4 months and until now and the owner of the centre assured us that for the mean time Grace will just include that piece of paper like a candidate form and a letter coming from them telling that as soon as they will get the original certificates coming from the City and Guilds they will courier it straight to the embassy. They said that the ECO will just accept that one and consider Grace's application because they handled cases same as ours and it was indeed approved. So we assumed that everything was fine.
so before the 16th of Dec. the case worker that handled our case emailed Grace telling that they got the English certificate, so we thought that everything was fine but they emailed Grace again last 20th of Dec, 2011 and this was the message:
Manila Ref: XXXXXXX
The initial processing of your visa application has commenced. Having assessed the application, the Entry Clearance Officer has decided that additional supporting documents are required in order that full consideration can be given to the application. You are therefore now being given a limited opportunity to provide the following documentation so the application can be assessed. Please provide the following:
* English Language Certificate
We have seen the certificate that you submitted with your application. However, please be advise that we can only accept English language test certificate from the new approved test centres. As your certificate is not on the approved list, please be advised that you need to provide an English language test certificate from one of the following approved test centres:http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/si...lish-tests.pdf
You must have to submit the new test centre within 2 weeks.
We complained this matter to the Theodolite management and asking why did it happened, and why did they courier the not approved one to the Brit Embassy. and they just said that we are still keep chasing Grace's City and Guilds certificate. They made a lot of promises to us and other visa applicants who took to their centre and all of us were complaining with their services. anyways. Grace needs to submit the original and they gave Grace until tomorrow 10th of January. and sad to say we can't give it to them because Theodolite people are hiding from us and we don't know what to do because we really think that if we can't give the original cert our application will be refuse,
just incase our application will be refuse and they only need the english cert, I am planning to let Grace take the exam again in Pearson in Manila (I heard they will release the result so quickly) I will not mind anymore about the payment because I just want Grace to be here ASAP...if she will take the exam again and the visa will be refuse.. what is really the best thing to do? to make a letter for reconsideration? or Appeal? what is the difference between the two?
I really hope to hear from you soon. your reply is greatly appreciated. CHEERS!!
PS:sorry if this message takes u a lot of time to read it.
Adam
GRACE
Originally Posted by juvyjones28
