Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

Yulichka wrote:

sameeer wrote:

anotherbrickinthewall wrote:People showing desperation must have skeletons hidden in the cupboard and are wary these will come out the longer HO spends on their application. They have a SLA of six months to deal with naturalisation applications and they don't have to take orders from impatient applicants on how to do their job. I am sure they monitor these boards for Intel and evidence of mischief.

lol you sound like one of those useless home office guys defending yourself ... there is definitely no logical explanation for not considering an application prior to those who apply later on ... common sense mate ...


The mischief is rather on the home office ends and needs to be thoroughly investigated ... surely there will be loads of skeletons coming out ... as always something or the other !

Completely agree with anotherbrickinthewall - well said!
Seriously guys, whingeing and whining is not helping anyone, so please just wait and stop wasting HO personnel time, so they can get on with their job.

Ajanaku wrote:

anotherbrickinthewall wrote:People showing desperation must have skeletons hidden in the cupboard and are wary these will come out the longer HO spends on their application. They have a SLA of six months to deal with naturalisation applications and they don't have to take orders from impatient applicants on how to do their job. I am sure they monitor these boards for Intel and evidence of mischief.

You are completely wrong dear. The waiting times is six months but when you start seeing application months after yours coming through and you know of a fact that you have been law abiding and your case is straight forward, you begin to wonder why so many application are coming through before yours.

sameeer wrote:

Ajanaku wrote:

anotherbrickinthewall wrote:People ]

Exactly Ajanaku !!! you share my sentiments ... When your case is not even been assigned to a caseworker to even look if any further checks are required, but on the other hand people who have just applied few weeks back are getting decisions made it whacks your brains out trying to understand how actually things work !

How do you think its even a descent service standards where there are people waiting from 4-5 months to just get assigned to a caseworker but the applications submitted as recent as 4 weeks earlier are already processed ...

mk2014 wrote:Eligibility criteria: wp + tier2 +tier1 + 1 year ILR
Method of application: NCS Wandsworth
sent: 17/12/2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 18/12/2013
Date of debit of fees: 21/01/2014
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 25/01/2014
Date of receipt of approval: Not Yet (Waiting for homeoffice response)
Date of Ceremony: 29/3/2014 (Recieved from local borough)

I was viewing all post regularly from last 2-3 weeks, and was getting little nervous when I saw people who applied in Jan 14 getting their approval, Last week I gave a call to HO contact, however person over phone said application still need to be process and 6 months is waiting duratiion and you need to wait till that time, I assume response over phone depend on person or their mood(so HO response should not be taken as accurate), wishes you all to receive your approval soon
Goodluck

farrukhnizam wrote:Update
Postby farrukhnizam » Mon Feb 24, 2014 1:13 pm

Eligibility criteria : 5yrs HSMP + 1 Yr ILR
Council : Hatfield Council on 08-01-2014
* Method of application: NCS
* Received application at Home office: 09-01-2014 - thedx.com
* Date of debit of fees: 26-01-2014 at 12:05pm (Sunday)
* Date of acknowledgement of fees: 29-01-2014 (dated on 26-01-2014)
* Date of approval: Waiting
* Date of Ceremony: Waiting

Called HO, They said still in process... Please wait
I asked them what are criteria to deal the applications because most of applications are pending since Nov and Dec but some applicant got the approval who applied after me.
She did not give me proper answer but she said every application has own criteria(depend on complexity)..

tja28 wrote:Eligibility criteria: 5 yrsWP+ TIE 1 GEN + 18 MONTHS
Method of application: NCS BEXLEY
sent: 20/02/2014
Date of receipt by UKBA: 20/02/2014
Date of debit of fees: 26/02/2014
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 01/03/2014 DATED 26/02/2014
Date of receipt of approval: ...
Date of Ceremony: .

shoppsydudu wrote:Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 2yrs Hsmp + 3yrs Tier 1+ 1yr ILR
Method of application: NCS Leicester
sent: 15/01/2014
Date of receipt by UKBA: 16/01/2014
Date of debit of fees: 29/01/2014
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 30/01/2014
Date of receipt of approval: ...
Date of Ceremony: ... Update. I called home office on 24/02/2014 and I was told that it was with case worker, I rang them up again on 26/2/2014 and they said something was posted to me in the morning, that I will get it within 2-5 days. So finger crossed

HEA wrote:Finally I received the most awaited brown envelope.. Got my approval letter today xxx
I am so happy and relieved. It took exactly 4 months..

Eligibi

magedezzeldin wrote:

HEA wrote:Finally I received the most awaited brown envelope.. Got my approval letter today xxx
I am so happy and relieved. It took exactly 4 months..

Eligibi

Do you know why yours took so long?
did you have independents on your application? or just yourself?

Thanks

apple02 wrote:

nionlight wrote:Finally I got the letter! Thanks to Almighty

Application date: 15/10/2013--NCS
Acknowledgement: 5/11/2013

Approval dated: 24/02/2014 ( received 28th)

One suggestion for people still waiting: Please do not lose hope and DO NOT be upset upon what you hear from HO call centre or emails about 'no decision is still made on your application'

I called them on 27th and they said it is still in process and no update. But the approval date was dated 24th.

Good luck all. You will get there eventually.

Well done, am happy that October batch is almost complete. Also like he said, I don't think its wise to trust the emails or HO anymore. When I phoned HO back in January about my application, they guy said on the system it shows still in progress when my application was already approved and dispatched to my address. So your best option is just waiting and find something to preoccupy your time until you get the surprise brown letter.