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August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2014 7:21 pm
by dks100
Naturalisation Application August 2014 Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 5 Yrs + 1 Yr ILR
Applicant: Self + 1 Child
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS (Manchester)
Date of application by NCS / Post: 04-08-2014
Date of receipt by UKBA: 05-08-2014 (Royal mail tracking)
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: CC
Date of debit or clearance of fees: Waiting
Date of acknowledgment: Waiting
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 10:48 am
by kt1mc
Eligibility criteria: 5 years Tier 1 + 12 months ILR
Language criteria met: IELTS (re-using the results used for my original Tier 1 application)
Current nationality: South African
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Bristol
Date of application: 11/08/2014
Payment method: DC
Date of receipt by UKBA: TBA
Date of acknowledgment: TBA
Date of debit or clearance of fees: TBA
Date approval received: TBA
Date of ceremony: TBA
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:19 am
by dks100
Hi All,
Please update the timeline in this forum if you have applied or applying your naturalization in August 2014. This will allow us to track timeline for those applied in August 2014.
Thanks everyone.
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 6:38 pm
by vivdubes
Eligibility criteria: 5 years Tier 1 + 12 months ILR
Language criteria met: IELTS (re-using the results used for my original Tier 1 application)
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Southwark
Date of application: 12/08/2014
Payment method: CC
Date of receipt by UKBA: TBA
Date of acknowledgment: TBA
Date of debit or clearance of fees: TBA
Date approval received: TBA
Date of ceremony: TBA
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:45 pm
by dks100
Hi,
It looks strange, my fee has not yet been debited nor I have received any confirmation yet. The home office received my application on 5th Aug and today it is 12th aug (RM Tracking). Looks very strange, I tried to figure out the time line from Jan - Jul time line posting. It looks like every month the average waiting time is increasing and now it is average around 3 months.
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 8:17 am
by todge
Eligibility criteria: 4yrs WP + 1yr Tier 2 + 12mths ILR
Applicant: Self
Current nationality: Russian
Method of application: NCS (Oxford)
Date of application by NCS / Post: 11-08-2014
Date of receipt by UKBA: 12-08-2014 (the DX tracking)
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: CC
Date of debit or clearance of fees: Waiting
Date of acknowledgment: Waiting
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 11:48 am
by nm
Eligibility criteria: 5 Yrs + 1 Yr ILR
Applicant: Self
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS (Manchester)
Date of application by NCS : 07-08-2014
Date of receipt by UKBA: 08-08-2014 (Royal mail tracking)
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: DC
Date of debit or clearance of fees: Waiting
Date of acknowledgment: Waiting
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 2:35 pm
by kt1mc
dks 100, it looks from the June/July threads that it was taking a week or more for the fees to be debited from accounts after receipt of documents, so you should be seeing that soon. I'm trying to get myself to forget about my application (not succeeding with that yet). At this rate we should have some shiny new passports for Christmas (or maybe even for my birthday in late November).
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:24 pm
by dks100
kt1mc, you are right, it looks like today they have debited fee as the available credit limit of my cc has gone down roughly about fee value. Possibly cc statement will be updated in a day or two. I will update my time line on receipt of acknowledgement.
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:09 am
by fgrun
It took a while for the money to come off. I think we might be in for a bit of a wait on everything...
Eligibility criteria: ILR + Spouse of BC + 6 years residency
Language criteria met: Life in the UK test & UK degree
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Kingston upon Thames
Date of application: 30/07/2014
Payment method: Visa debit
Date of receipt by UKBA: 31/07/2014 (Assumed)
Date of acknowledgment: 13/08/2014 (dated 08/08/2014)
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 11/08/2014
Date approval received: Waiting.....
Date of ceremony:Waiting.....

Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 4:17 pm
by dks100
Update on fee clearance
dks100 wrote:
Eligibility criteria: 5 Yrs + 1 Yr ILR
Applicant: Self + 1 Child
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS (Manchester)
Date of application by NCS / Post: 04-08-2014
Date of receipt by UKBA: 05-08-2014 (Royal mail tracking)
Payment method: CC
Date fees cleared: 13/05/2014 (Online CC Statement Check)
Date of acknowledgment: ... Waiting
Date approval received: ... Waiting
Date of ceremony: ... Waiting
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 5:06 pm
by skoppuravuri
Hi Folks,
I got approval today , Please find below timeline if someone want to get some relief , Hope you get soon.
Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 2yr HSMP + 3yr Tier1 + 1yr ILR + Life in the Uk
Method of application: NCS (Edinburgh council )
Date of application: 08/05/2014
Payment method: Credit card
Date of receipt of approval: 15/08/2014
Date of Ceremony: Have to book
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 5:15 pm
by dks100
Congratulation skoppuravuri, Thanks for your posting your timeline, I am sure your timeline will be helpful to other members also in this forum. From your timeline, It looks like that the naturalization application processing takes roughly 3 months.
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:23 pm
by Svakili
Eligibility criteria: spouse visa (2 years visa + 1 year ILR)
Language criteria met: Life in the UK + ESOL entry 3 in speaking and listening ( city & guild ) certificate
Current nationality: Iranian
Method of application: post (filled it myself)
Date of application: 14/08/2014
Payment method: credit card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 15/08/2014
Date of acknowledgment: waiting
Date of debit or clearance of fees: Waiting
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting
Just to mention,last year when I applied for my biometric card ( indefinite leave to remain ) I sent my application myself and I had my card in about 6weeks and I hope this comes through quickly as well.
Fingers crossed

Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 10:14 pm
by prakash.uk
skoppuravuri wrote:Hi Folks,
I got approval today , Please find below timeline if someone want to get some relief , Hope you get soon.
Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 2yr HSMP + 3yr Tier1 + 1yr ILR + Life in the Uk
Method of application: NCS (Edinburgh council )
Date of application: 08/05/2014
Payment method: Credit card
Date of receipt of approval: 15/08/2014
Date of Ceremony: Have to book
Hi skoppuravuri, congratulations!! Good to hear your result and helps me too. I made my application 3 weeks later than you.
Regards
prakash.uk
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:44 pm
by halifax8
Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 5yr
Method of application: NCS (Calderdale )
Date of application: 31/07/2014
Received Date : 01/08/2014
Payment method: Debit Card
Date of Payment: 11/08/2014
Date of acknowledgement: 16/08/2014 ( Letter dated 11/08/2014
Approval : waiting
Date of Ceremony: waiting
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:45 pm
by halifax8
pplication Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 5yr
Method of application: NCS (Calderdale )
Date of application: 31/07/2014
Received Date : 01/08/2014
Payment method: Debit Card
Date of Payment: 11/08/2014
Date of acknowledgement: 16/08/2014 ( Letter dated 11/08/2014
Approval : waiting
Date of Ceremony: waiting
dks100 wrote:Hi All,
Please update the timeline in this forum if you have applied or applying your naturalization in August 2014. This will allow us to track timeline for those applied in August 2014.
Thanks everyone.
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:46 pm
by halifax8
dks100 wrote:Naturalisation Application August 2014 Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 5 Yrs + 1 Yr ILR
Applicant: Self + 1 Child
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS (Manchester)
Date of application by NCS / Post: 04-08-2014
Date of receipt by UKBA: 05-08-2014 (Royal mail tracking)
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: CC
Date of debit or clearance of fees: Waiting
Date of acknowledgment: Waiting
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting
pplication Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 5yr
Method of application: NCS (Calderdale )
Date of application: 31/07/2014
Received Date : 01/08/2014
Payment method: Debit Card
Date of Payment: 11/08/2014
Date of acknowledgement: 16/08/2014 ( Letter dated 11/08/2014
Approval : waiting
Date of Ceremony: waiting
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 6:03 pm
by globalindian
Eligibility criteria: 5yr + 1 year ILR
Method of application: NCS
Date of application: 12/08/2014
Received Date : 13/08/2014
Payment method: Debit Card
Date of Payment: waiting
Date of acknowledgement:waiting
Approval : waiting
Date of Ceremony: waiting
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 10:59 am
by dks100
Hi All,
Based on the previous threads it appears to be currently the average time to process any application is approx. 65 workdays. Although there are some exceptional where actual processing days were outside this average time limit.
I have updated the tracking sheet with Expected Date column (based on average 65 working days). It is a very rough estimate so that people in this forum could have some idea about processing time line. The expected date is just guideline and not any official figure, In reality it may be less than 65 work days of more. When we come closure to time line and some of us will receive approval than we would make another calculation for no of days for application processing which should be more accurate than this.
This dashboard information has been collected from the current forum "August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline" as posted by various participants in this forum. I will try to update this dashboard weekly or fortnightly to know our progress for Aug 14 application timeline.
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 10:26 am
by kt1mc
Update:
Eligibility criteria: 5 years Tier 1 + 12 months ILR
Language criteria met: IELTS (re-using the results used for my original Tier 1 application)
Current nationality: South African
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Bristol
Date of application: 11/08/2014
Payment method: DC
Date of receipt by UKBA: 12/08/2014 (Special Delivery tracking)
Date of acknowledgment: TBA
Date of debit or clearance of fees: Available account balance dropped 18/08/2014
Date approval received: TBA
Date of ceremony: TBA
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 11:14 am
by veji99
Eligibility criteria: 5yr + 1 year ILR
Method of application: NCS
Date of application: 04/08/2014
Received Date :
Payment method: Debit Card
Date of Payment: 13/08/2014
Date of acknowledgement:waiting
Approval : waiting
Date of Ceremony: waiting
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 3:12 pm
by rajsp
Eligibility criteria: 5 years Tier 2 (ICT) + 12 months ILR
Language criteria met: UK NARIC English Language Assessment, Degree Comparability Certificate
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Aberdeen
Date of application: 08/08/2014
Payment method: DC
Date of receipt by UKBA: 11/08/2014 (Special Delivery tracking)
Date of acknowledgment: Waiting
Date of debit or clearance of fees: Waiting
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 6:21 pm
by kiwi-in-uk
Naturalisation Application August 2014 Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 5 Yrs Tier 1 + 6 months ILR (Spouse BC)
Applicant: Self
Current nationality: New Zealand
Method of application: NCS (Ampthill, Beds)
Date of application by NCS / Post: 18.08.14
Date of receipt by UKBA:
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: Cheque
Date of debit or clearance of fees: Waiting
Date of acknowledgment: Waiting
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting
Kiwi-in-uk
Re: August 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:07 pm
by globalindian
Thanks dks100. This is really helpful.