January 2014 - Naturalization Application Timeline

Idk man...Ive been advised I didnt need to make a request to them...shud i jsut withdraw my application request?

When I spoke to them last week...she said ''yyou can withdraww your request if u want''

im such a fool really i am

i paid £94.00 fee i cudve used that money to buy a a new jacket..i really need a new jacket

Unfortunately still waiting.
Had applied on 28th Jan through NCS Barnet but have not received ok.

Only potential complication I can see is that the start of the residency period was under a student visa (rather than a spouse visa). Otherwise days in/out of the UK and other requirements should have been met.

You can see my earlier post requesting advice on whether I can apply under the student visa.

Hope I get a positive outcome!

splashing wrote:

splashing wrote:Eligibility criteria: 2yrs hsmp, 3 yrs Tier 1 and 1yr ILR
Language criteria met (UK degree, exempt countries, NARIC, or B1 test): Master degree in UK
Current nationality: Nigerian
Method of application: NCS Edinburgh
Council name if NCS used: NCS Edinburgh
Date of application: 13 Jan 2014
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: Credit Card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 14th Jan 2014
Date of aknowlegment: Waiting
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 31st Jan 2014 ( Saw transaction on my online statement)
Date approval received: 14th march dated 9th march
Date of ceremony:08 April 2014


all Glory to God.

Finally finally arrived . The most awaited and expected letter. Thank God. I can stop calling home during lunch to ask if any brown envelope arrived in d post for me.

Received my approval letter on 14th march dated 9th march . Exactly 2months.
Yet to call council though.

Pls anyone knows if NCS Edinburgh conduct ceremony on a Saturday . Can't afford to ask for half a day hol so soon. Just coming back from 1week sick off.

All d best to those still waiting.

All Glory to God Almighty. Had my ceremony today at NCS Edinburgh. went very well. had ceremonry with 40 other pple. nice one .
Good luck and all de best.
Travelling all over the world begins

Who is still waiting?

I am the only UNLUCKY man waiting. What about U?

Still waiting

January 2014 Applications Update

• Applicants: 142
  Fee Debits: 139 (~ 98%) (pending: nselarka*, s4sam, KyleDM)
  Approvals: 119** (~ 84%) (congratulations on newest approvals for mirna, phoki, happylad, majamcr, farrukhnizam, haidarbaker, vv129, Zeeshan123, UKc2be, chir, taffy_uyeuye, rickyrafe777, daniel212, alex_shvjac, darkangel14, fragnance19, statician, t-cham, lostlove, speaker40, hina zaheer, isomb, adeelmpk, mmf, Shani3520, ade2012, bachy, amitc, P_SUDHIR, pasha44, HelMag, milan69, jmehmud, bouqet777, kimleeds)
  * Please add your timeline using this format
  ** I have excluded winchesterguy's update from these figures as he has yet to receive the Home Office confirmation letter
  
  Average waiting time between Fee Debit and Approval Letter Date (FD2ALD): ~ 27 weekdays***
  Average waiting time between Fee Debit and Approval Letter Receipt (FD2ALR): ~ 33 weekdays***
  *** This metric is entirely down to individual circumstances, such as complexity of application and 2nd class post receipt time, to name but two.
  Interesting aside relating to the above waiting times - the second half of this post is an email reply from the Home Office confirming a decision being made on an application, followed by a gap of a few days before the decision letter was dispatched.

I have excluded the following applicants since date of receipt of one's application by the UKBA is the effective application date (if I am incorrect, please let me know, as I am merely going by the timelines posted):

• tamara26 - a February 2014 applicant
  grizli - another February 2014 applicant

Here are the 142 applicants so far, please let me know of any errors or omissions (pending applications highlighted in red, hyperlinks to past approvals):

• w/c 30 December (excluding December 2013 applicants) - 9 applicants
  kiranchinnu
  NOG
  SameerBhagawatUk
  Bruno30
  Peachoct6
  Captain_underpants
  For_fam
  mohat
  mirna

• w/c 6 January - 33 applicants
  STV
  magedezzeldin
  uknotts
  phoki
  baji15
  sylm_2000
  s4sam
  safa_bb
  midbar
  manuwt
  keepsim
  icon3001
  happylad
  t0mmy
  27pence
  Newme123
  majamcr
  silverdiablo7
  muf
  shiva321
  Josomount
  lenyrka25
  zahira
  Brockadisiac
  amthekkel
  farrukhnizam
  rw1perth
  hub007
  Bash1oo
  mandykan
  spui
  sgaba
  nselarka - Please add your timeline using this format

• w/c 13 January - 45 applicants
  DayDream
  trigger
  jayowo
  DevB
  cblue12
  chis1
  prokabungle
  haidarbaker
  splashing
  MY
  soniaa84
  sidhujazz
  freemen_17
  guavaguy
  vv129
  teenboy
  Zeeshan123
  slav
  tundefaboye
  Bibak
  s**ee
  Jegdis5
  M2008
  murmur
  tchy
  tanere
  UKc2be
  chir
  eskalebur
  kiwiana76
  shoppsydudu
  taffy_uyeuye
  Ss73
  bokeh42
  rickyrafe777
  varre_v
  winchesterguy
  h-khan
  hot_rock_tx
  aquarius
  daniel212
  rupali123
  sonslak
  harry909
  Churros7

• w/c 20 January - 33 applicants
  alex_shvjac
  ei
  khurrambutt
  jassi55
  ITGraduate
  gdyoung
  kir60
  Camillinhadantas
  Casapot
  syed_h
  ambitions_high
  OmerMohammed
  abbey84
  20shamat
  springishere
  darkangel14
  fragnance19
  abdik1980
  statician
  t-cham
  Satnair
  giolondon
  papu.sarkari
  lostlove
  speaker40
  phospholipid
  hina zaheer
  isomb
  Jo1
  adeelmpk
  mmf
  Shani3520
  latansingh

• w/c 27 January - 22 applicants
  Somudro
  dabbler80
  KyleDM
  nbweb
  Ged
  ade2012
  bachy
  amitc
  cofe
  sabster
  deep7_jm
  P_SUDHIR
  pasha44
  HelMag
  milan69
  urzfriend
  Koolmail
  jmehmud
  tab0287
  bouqet777
  guiness
  kimleeds

General progress so far for January 2014:

To all January 2014 applicants - please try and keep your timelines updated and accurate as it benefits the topic and others when you do so. Relevant update posts (like this one) in my signature to make them easy to track.

As always, thanks to amthekkel, p2kin, jotter, TTOE and tier_2_applicant for their data and formats.

Great job @trigger.

Thank you trigger.

@phospholipid, did you apply only for you? or a join application with family?

Somudro wrote:@phospholipid, did you apply only for you? or a join application with family?

Application is only for me, tried to call yesterday and they just said it's in process. I really don't know why it's taking so long, they said a caseworker has not looked at it yet.

phospholipid wrote:

Somudro wrote:@phospholipid, did you apply only for you? or a join application with family?

Application is only for me, tried to call yesterday and they just said it's in process. I really don't know why it's taking so long, they said a caseworker has not looked at it yet.

Incidentally, I also called yesterday and got the answer: in process. Simple application. No complication at all.

Do they ask for reference? Do they go to referee?

Somudro wrote:

phospholipid wrote:

Somudro wrote:@phospholipid, did you apply only for you? or a join application with family?

Application is only for me, tried to call yesterday and they just said it's in process. I really don't know why it's taking so long, they said a caseworker has not looked at it yet.

Incidentally, I also called yesterday and got the answer: in process. Simple application. No complication at all.

Do they ask for reference? Do they go to referee?

I believe that they can go to your referee and ask them how they know us, why do you ask?

As I am late in getting approval, several questions come to mind. If they go for reference this might take extra time.

Somudro wrote:As I am late in getting approval, several questions come to mind. If they go for reference this might take extra time.

Yes I've been asking myself a lot of questions also. If it helps, I have gone to both of my referees and none have received a call from the UKBA.

sabster wrote:Unfortunately still waiting.
Had applied on 28th Jan through NCS Barnet but have not received ok.

Only potential complication I can see is that the start of the residency period was under a student visa (rather than a spouse visa). Otherwise days in/out of the UK and other requirements should have been met.

You can see my earlier post requesting advice on whether I can apply under the student visa.

Hope I get a positive outcome!

FINALLY, got approval yesterday. The letter was dated 2nd April - I can only assume Royal Mail take some sadistic pleasure in delivering these letters particularly slowly...

sabster wrote:

sabster wrote:Unfortunately still waiting.
Had applied on 28th Jan through NCS Barnet but have not received ok.

Only potential complication I can see is that the start of the residency period was under a student visa (rather than a spouse visa). Otherwise days in/out of the UK and other requirements should have been met.

You can see my earlier post requesting advice on whether I can apply under the student visa.

Hope I get a positive outcome!

FINALLY, got approval yesterday. The letter was dated 2nd April - I can only assume Royal Mail take some sadistic pleasure in delivering these letters particularly slowly...

Congratulation man!.

Just a quick question: Did HO contact Referee?

Hi Somudro,

HO did not contact any of my referee but my friend told me that during his process HO sent an inquiry to both of his referees. So it seems random, all depends on the case worker.

Was your friend a January applicant? What did they ask your friends referees?

He applied in Sept 2013 and got his approval within 4 weeks. HO asked his referees about their status, relation to applicant, business/job.

jmehmud wrote:He applied in Sept 2013 and got his approval within 4 weeks. HO asked his referees about their status, relation to applicant, business/job.

4 weeks! Impressive.

Thanks

Somudro wrote:

sabster wrote:

sabster wrote:Unfortunately still waiting.
Had applied on 28th Jan through NCS Barnet but have not received ok.

Only potential complication I can see is that the start of the residency period was under a student visa (rather than a spouse visa). Otherwise days in/out of the UK and other requirements should have been met.

You can see my earlier post requesting advice on whether I can apply under the student visa.

Hope I get a positive outcome!

FINALLY, got approval yesterday. The letter was dated 2nd April - I can only assume Royal Mail take some sadistic pleasure in delivering these letters particularly slowly...

Congratulation man!.

Just a quick question: Did HO contact Referee?

Thank you. Application was actually for the ol ball and chain. No, nobody called the referees.

In fact to answer some other questions I've also seen, we haven't been in the country the entire time the application has been under consideration. I've been sent on an international assignment and the wife has been with me the whole time so that clearly doesn't effect anything for those wondering.

The only pain has been trying to get others to check the post on a daily basis especially since people on here have been getting positive replies!

We will be back for the ceremony in 2 weeks

Application Timeline
Eligibility - 2yrs Spouse Visa 1 & 1YR ILR
Method of Application - NCS Oxford
Date Posted - 25/01/14
Date Received by UKBA - 26/01/14
Date fee deducted - 04/02/14
Date of receipt of approval -
Letter from Council - 12/04/2014
Date of ceremony - 01/05/2014

Who is still waiting?

Almost 70% of Feb applicants got approval so I will be very surprised if a Jan applicant is still waiting..I am sure they all got approvals..