Once again Terpe you are the first replying. You put so much into this forum, I have no idea how you make time to reply and to genuinly care. You must have heard so many "visa application" tales!

Ours was so much more pressured than I could have imagined ( even having been through the visit visa 3 times). The details would take too long to write, but courier screw ups left us heading to Manila 2 days before our application with NO uk documents. But we got on the bus and made a lot of phone calls on the way, getting our "lost" documents returned to Manila the day before my wife's apointment. We pulled it all together by 10 pm the night before submision.

So anyone persuing their visa, whichever category, push on, be organised and prepare, prepare, prepare. We had so littte time, but with strict organisation and preparation I think we got there.

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