January 2014 - Naturalization Application Timeline

20shamat wrote:

20shamat wrote:Eligibility criteria: 5yrs + 1 yr ILR
Language criteria met : LiUK+IELTS+PBS
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Redbridge
Date of application: 20-01-14
Payment method :Debit card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 22-01-14
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 28-01-14
Date of acknowledgment: 31/01/2014 (Dated)
Date approval received: 17-03-2014 letter dated 09-03-2014
Date of ceremony: 20/03/2014 - Private ceremony
Hi Everyone, received my approval letter (famous brown envelope). Many thanks to the moderators and advisors. All the best wishes to remaining applicants.

Casapot wrote:My husband received his approval letter today
For citizenship
Eligibility: Spouse of British Citizen
Applied: 20th January
Fees taken: 30th January
Approval and documents received: 12th March (dated 10th March)
Citizenship Ceremony: 27th March


Thank God it has arrived! Good luck on all of you that are still waiting... Reading through these posts have really got me through the wait and thanks to Bateleykhan for all of his help when we first started the journey applying for the spouse visa

jmehmud wrote:Hi All!

There is no doubt, this forum is such a helpful resource for all the applicants but this is still lacking with one massive information and that is contact date to referee.

I think administrator of this forum should add this point in thread timeline questionnaire so then everybody can enter the date whenever their referees are being contacted by HO so we all will get an idea that how much time usually HO takes to process the application after contacting the referees or in other words once HO gets the feedback from the referees then how long they take.

I hope who ever runs this thread or forum will consider my suggestion. Thanks

Regards

by chopchak » Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:31 am

Feb approval Update
quote=Eligibility criteria:
Language criteria:
Current nationality:
Method of application: POST-self+3
Council name if NCS used:
Date of application: 03/02/2014 (delivered by RM )
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: CREDIT CARD
Date of receipt by UKBA: 03/02/2014
Date of aknowlegment: 10/02/2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 06/02/2014( available balance dropped )
Date approval received: 18/03/2014
Date of ceremony: no date yet

milan69 wrote:I had to call over 20 times on 0300 number before I got through. Have you tried emailing them?

h-khan wrote:Hi everyone, just got my approval letter today and want to share my experience:

Eligibility criteria: 5 years businessperson + 8 months ILR (Annex B, Ch 18, Para 7.5G discretion)
Citizenship: Pakistani
Method of application: NCS Westminster
Date applicant sent: 16/01/14
Date of receipt by UKBA: 17/01/14
Date of debit of fees: 04/02/14
Payment method: Cheque
Date of acknowledgement letter: 29/01/14
Date of approval: 07/03/14 (the letter was received by me on 19/03/14)
Date of Ceremony: 20/03/14 Private ceremony

Finally this wait is over. I must say it has been a pleasure to be on this forum and to learn from all you amazing people. HO use 2nd class post and it took my approval letter 12 days to arrive! So stay patient, and in the end it will all be good! In actuality, it took one month and one week from the point of acknowledgement letter issue to the date of the decision letter issue.

All the best to everyone!