Thank you for your help, that is largely what I thought. What a long frustrating process this has been. I sometimes wonder whether living and working in the UK is at all worth it.

Cheers

I wonder if anyone here can clear this up for me. Apologies if it has been discussed before. I am currently here on a working holiday makers visa which is due to expire on July 15th. Back in January I applied for the HSMP visa and recieved my letter in March to say that this was successful, after ...