Advent were certainly not sticking to the two year limit. I initially signed up to study the MCDBA course with Advent in November 06 with all the same promises as the rest of you. I was in fact told I could take 10 years to complete if I wished, and was advised that it would realistically take me 3 years. I was on track to complete in three years when this qualification was retired. In January 2009, 2 months AFTER the two year expiry date they offered me a place FREE OF CHARGE on the new MCITP course, which I took. So that's 4 more modules to complete after the two year expiry date. I've sent proof of this to the legal team.

Hi everyone, First post. Had been following this forum until my partner suffered a miscarriage a few weeks ago and this whole thing went to the back of my mind. It's great that it's still going, I need to read through about 50 pages here to catch up. My situation is perhaps slightly different to a lot of people in that my 'two year limit' was up quite a while ago. I initially signed up to study the MCDBA course with Advent in November 06 with all the same promises as the rest of you. I was in fact told I could take 10 years to complete if I wished, and was advised that it would realistically take me 3 years. I was on track to complete in three years when this qualification was retired. They never mentioned that this would happen in the interview! In January 2009, 2 months AFTER the two year expiry date they offered me a place FREE OF CHARGE on the new MCITP course, which I took. So that's 4 more modules to complete after the two year expiry date! My brother is a solicitor and has been advising me so far, Fuzzbutt he emailed you at the end of last week about what you are doing (my head is in quite a different place at the moment), which he thinks is great.