Thank you so much selchie, that's very nice of you.
At the moment I feel like I'm in limbo, he just told me yesterday that his application was denied and I think he feels that that is it. However, I emailed a simple to question to a consultancy firm and after a couple of replies they said if he wants to pay the fee and fill out their questionaire they'll look into his situation, so I just this minute fwd that to my friend, I won't talk to him again till Sunday so I just have to wait and see now.