Have you assumed the fees will stay the same in the future? They will probably go up!

Page 12 of the document.

There's no mention at all on the 10/14 year settlement routes?

You go in and basically they take a photo of you and scan you fingers, similar to when you travel through the USA. Its pretty straight forward and only took me about 10 minutes, spent more time in the reception waiting for my appointment time to come up.

Just got notificaiton yesterday that my EC had been accepted, im assuming you have yours now as well?

Sent mine in on the 14th, hoping it comes in the next two weeks

Good news, if other countries won't offer reciprocal agreements to UK nationals they shouldn't be allowed in. Also its good they increased the time allowed to 24 months.

Application received by HO: 18/02/2008
Reference Number: 251xxx
HSMP fee deducted: 20/02/2008

Applied for from NZ, still waiting for decision. Hoping it should be coming through soon!