So I made a real mess of this. After passing L2 in 2009 I joined CFAI as an affiliate member and submitted my work experience of 23 months (as at that point). I was accepted as a member and happily went on to pass L3 last year. As at 1 September (yesterday) I would have achieved 48 months qualifying experience, but after digging around the website I see they accepted my membership back in 2009, but rejected the work experience as being ‘Description too brief’! So instead of automatically getting CFA next to my name, I have to resubmit my work experience and wait and wait and wait… My fault for not checking if my original work experience was accepted, but it would have been nice if they had let me know via an email… Dang.