Ive considered the Orlando Flight Training Centre for my PPL next summer, and from what ive heard about the Visas, it sounds harder to get the visa than it does to get the actual licence.
The M-1 is such an easy application; don't know where you got your info from!
Send in an I-20 m-n form that the school supplies, fill out a DS 156 and DS 157 (school will send or you can get off the web), pay 46 quid and send off to Embassy with passport.
You will have your passport returned with said Visa in up to 10 biz days.
They may ask for proof that you are coming back to the UK; can do that with return ticket, returning to a job, mortgage, rent etc.
Anyone that says the process is difficult either doesn't know about it or doesn't offer it!!!!!
