Thank you for your kind words David!
I hope that my above postings were not deemed to be too much of a rant, but I'm afraid this subject always touches a nerve having personally gone through the rigmarole of trying to appease the U.K. Visa and Immigration office.
I could write pages about the inefficiency and intransigence of the above mentioned office but will hold fire on that in order not to bore everyone to death!
But I will say that it is a long and torturous road that one has to travel to obtain citizenship, nobody expects it to be easy, nor should it be, but I know of several decent folk that have fallen by the wayside or given up due to the complexities of the visa process etc.
The reason for posting as I did was purely to advise other forum members that, in order to obtain citizenship, you have to do a damn sight more than just pass a silly irrelevant test. You could even argue that is the easy bit compared with previously having to meet all the statutory requirements of the UKVI office.
Just as a quick example, the photo below shows the amount of documentation necessary to accompany a visa application, get anything wrong and you're likely to have to start all over again with a new application. Fortunately we were successful on that particular occasion!