Hi all Those off list who are asking me whether I had a reply from the Qualifications Department "can we submit electronically" (as per new regulations) the answer is I have had no reply. Perhaps it's an obvious no (I have lived in this country for 20 years and I still don't know how people communicate, so please can someone in the list say if one asks, receives no reply about sth important, whether this is "no, f off" or "hmmm" or " we are thinking about it" -make your own pizza topping.) Any lawyers out there to judge the validity of handing in under the old LA regulations, 6 months AFTER unification ? I can't recall that in the former East Germany I could claim "oh, but the new rules don't apply to me cos I am still going by the old rules, it says here (I only have to cross out "DDR", see, and I follow those rules for 6 months). I am having serious trouble "purging out" the old terms, referring to yellow bits of paper such such as the personal achievement or whatever it is called (which nobody fills in but everyone writes they did). I feel like Dom Jolly dressed up as boy scout collecting "good deeds" to qualify. We have always in the past been advised to hand in when we are ready after having shown all the points of the pro-forma (that is, when we are about to retire). Now we all have two weeks left - great. best Emilce Rees _________________________________________________________________ Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband. http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp