Approve members from frontend

Hi, I’m having problems with the redirection that happens after logging in.

When trying to view a page that is access restricted, a user gets correctly redirected to the log in page, but with a “redirect_to” value in the querystring so that the user will automatically be redirected back to where he came from. This works just fine!

The problem I’m experiencing though, is when an admin gets an email to approve a member, the link in the email is for the specific user’s profile page. When the admin is not currently logged in, clicking on that link will result in being redirected to the log in page – this time however there is no “redirect_to” value in the querystring which obviously means that the admin will not be taken back to the profile of the new user in order to approve membership!

I have gone through all the settings a million times and tried different combinations of settings no success. I don’t understand why it works in the first scenario, but not the second.

On a sidenote, it would be really usefull to have some kind of widget or shortcode to place on the frontend for a logged-in admin user to view a list of all members requiring approval.

Any insight will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.