Rayna ... I do sooo wish I were able to answer your question and help put your mind at ease.

As it happens, a member sent me a Private Message this very afternoon because she was feeling anxious and uptight over fears that her FLR(M) application might've been rejected on account of the fact that she'd "heard" nothing further from the UKBA ever since they'd acknowledged it back in June.

All I could tell her - without mentioning any names, of course - was that there were several others here who had been waiting even longer for the outcome of THEIRS. However, I then proceeded to explain that it seemed highly likely the recent spate of lengthy delays had been caused by a backlog of applications built up in the wake of precedence given to those processed on behalf of the numerous Olympic contenders from abroad during the Spring and early Summer.

Indeed, I'm pretty certain this was the reason it took them so long - earlier in the year - to deal with Myrna's Application for Citizenship.

Whilst I realise this doesn't exactly help to resolve the issue you're confronted with in the present context - which, hopefully, either Terpe or Joe WILL be able to - I thought it may, nonetheless, shed some light on at least one [possible] reason for the UKBA's apparent procrastination.