April 2015 Naturalization application Timeline ONLY

[shahjee11]

Countless thanks to the Almighty, We received our brown envelopes today

Thanks to this forum and all of its members for sharing valuable information and helping out each other. Please see our timeline as below.

Eligibility criteria: Tier 1 (G) 5 Years + 1 year on ILR
Number of applicants: 2 (Myself and wife)
Language criteria met: UK degree for myself and wife's degree from abroad + Expired IELTS
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Edinburgh
Date of application: 01/04/2015
Application received by HO: 02/04/2015
Payment method: CC
Payment taken: 21/04/2015
Date of acknowledgment: 25/04/2015
Date approval received: 30/07/2015 (dated 21/07/2015)
Date of ceremony: Yet to be booked

Waiting applicants, wish you all the best of luck for your decisions to come through soon. Just Keep the faith

[Amritsar singh]

Cograts mate wish good luck

[theflare_007]

Congrats @ shahjee


at last april applicants are getting their brown envelopes ).

I applied on 17th April so keeping my fingers crossed ) and waiting

[smartkhan]

+1

Amritsar singh is a either a "BOT" or someone looking to frustrate people.

PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO ANYMORE OF HIS/HER IRRELEVANT MESSAGES.

Also Amritsar singh , if you happen to not be a "BOT", do us all a favor and get your SH*T together. We are all here to get relevant information and your messages are incoherent and annoying.

cheers

[rroy111]

Guys.
I applied via NCS on 31/3 and UKBA received it on 2/4 .

I mailed UKBA and they said that a decision has been made on 17 july and that i should expect a letter with an invitation to attend the ceremony - which kind of suggests it is probably approved though the email didn't explicitly mention that.

But then i am still waiting. I got to know that they are sending by second class mail - really don't know how long does it take to receive a mail dated 17th july.

anybody else who has applied in this timeline still waiting for approval? or am i the last one?

[fn286]

Hi

Do they really give this information over the phone that decision has been made in your favour?

Guys.
I applied via NCS on 31/3 and UKBA received it on 2/4 .

I mailed UKBA and they said that a decision has been made on 17 july and that i should expect a letter with an invitation to attend the ceremony - which kind of suggests it is probably approved though the email didn't explicitly mention that.

But then i am still waiting. I got to know that they are sending by second class mail - really don't know how long does it take to receive a mail dated 17th july.

anybody else who has applied in this timeline still waiting for approval? or am i the last one?

[rroy111]

Hi

Do they really give this information over the phone that decision has been made in your favour?

As I said, they didn't say yes or no but they did mention a decision has been taken on 17th july and you should receive a letter shortly inviting you to attend the ceremony - this was the statement in the email i received. (It was not telephonic)

Guys.
I applied via NCS on 31/3 and UKBA received it on 2/4 .

I mailed UKBA and they said that a decision has been made on 17 july and that i should expect a letter with an invitation to attend the ceremony - which kind of suggests it is probably approved though the email didn't explicitly mention that.

But then i am still waiting. I got to know that they are sending by second class mail - really don't know how long does it take to receive a mail dated 17th july.

anybody else who has applied in this timeline still waiting for approval? or am i the last one?

[n2teaching]

Hi

Do they really give this information over the phone that decision has been made in your favour?

As I said, they didn't say yes or no but they did mention a decision has been taken on 17th july and you should receive a letter shortly inviting you to attend the ceremony - this was the statement in the email i received. (It was not telephonic)

Guys.
I applied via NCS on 31/3 and UKBA received it on 2/4 .

I mailed UKBA and they said that a decision has been made on 17 july and that i should expect a letter with an invitation to attend the ceremony - which kind of suggests it is probably approved though the email didn't explicitly mention that.

But then i am still waiting. I got to know that they are sending by second class mail - really don't know how long does it take to receive a mail dated 17th july.

anybody else who has applied in this timeline still waiting for approval? or am i the last one?

I'm very surprised this information was divulged, even by email. I thought all the literature for Naturailsation said they would not give update on the progress of applications.

[hussain131]

Eligibility criteria: tier 1 + ILR
Language criteria met: LIUK and B1
Current nationality: Pakistani
Method of application: NCS - Islington
Date of application: 1st April 2015
Payment method: Debit Card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 02-Apr-2015
Date of debit or clearance of fees:
Date of acknowledgment: 23 April 2015
Date approval received: 31 July 2015
Date of ceremony:

Finally received my approval today dated 23rd July 2015

[afnadim]

Guys.
I applied via NCS on 31/3 and UKBA received it on 2/4 .

I mailed UKBA and they said that a decision has been made on 17 july and that i should expect a letter with an invitation to attend the ceremony - which kind of suggests it is probably approved though the email didn't explicitly mention that.

But then i am still waiting. I got to know that they are sending by second class mail - really don't know how long does it take to receive a mail dated 17th july.

anybody else who has applied in this timeline still waiting for approval? or am i the last one?

Hi roy
could provide me the email address you contacted.I am also waiting.applied on the 30/03/2015

[chowkal]

Dear Folks: My journey has to come a end partly,for me and my spouse.
Though my kids application should be easy now

Eligibility criteria: Tier 1 + ILR ( Me and my dependant Spouse)
Language criteria met: LIUK and B1 English for Main applicant and spouse(dependant) PBS print out on Degree from India
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS - Croydon
Date of application: 31st March 2015
Payment method: Credit Card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 02-Apr-2015
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 23-04-2015
Date of acknowledgment: 30-04-2015
Date approval received: 31 July 2015
Date of ceremony: Need to contact council I guess

I cannot thank enough the moderators and all the individual members who have been of great help in my entire journey.

I will start a new thread soon with my kids application sometime next week

My sincere Thanks again

[ukswus]

It's been now several weeks since all the approvals stalled at April 1 mark. I am beginning to suspect that there is some technical issue which prevents them from considering post- biometric applications.

[n2legos]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 5yr + 1yr ILR (Tier 2, American)
Method of application: NCS (Carlisle)
Date of receipt by UKBA: 2 April 2015
Date of debit of fees: 21 April 2015
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 25 April 2015
Date of receipt of approval: 31 July 2015 (dated 21 July 2015)
Date of Ceremony: 21 August 2015

Note: This is for two application forms; Spouse also applied at same time, same NCS appointment. They are treated us together with one letter of acknowledgement to include both of us. We each received an approval letter, same day.

Thanks everyone on the forum, really appreciate the sharing of info here as it does help put context into the wait. Good luck to all. Cheers!

[FireballXL5]

It's been now several weeks since all the approvals stalled at April 1 mark. I am beginning to suspect that there is some technical issue which prevents them from considering post- biometric applications.

+1 on this. I agree. Before I assumed that it was just a decision to work through their Jan/Feb/Mar backlogs before starting on the post-biometrics. But now the fact they've been stuck at 1/2 April for weeks suggests that there might be something up. The Home Office are the most useless organisation on earth with these sorts of things so an almighty admin c**kup would be totally in line with their form so far. They already sent us a second biometric letter by mistake a whole month after my OH had already submitted them.

Having said this, it might just be that there are additional "backroom" stages to the post-biometric process that we are unaware of. But you'd hope that they'd be capable of doing these after so much time.

[landcruiser94]

There really isn't any evidence to indicate there is a problem with april applicants who are starting out on the new biometric process. I have been following this thread closely and we only started seeing approvals from april applicants at the start of this week. So far, we have only seen approvals from folks so sent off their applications on 1st april or those whose applications were received by the 2nd of April. Give it another week or two before getting worried and even at that, no one can really say there is a mess up going on... Keep following the thread and we will learn more in the coming weeks.

[FireballXL5]

There really isn't any evidence to indicate there is a problem with april applicants who are starting out on the new biometric process. I have been following this thread closely and we only started seeing approvals from april applicants at the start of this week. So far, we have only seen approvals from folks so sent off their applications on 1st april or those whose applications were received by the 2nd of April. Give it another week or two before getting worried and even at that, no one can really say there is a mess up going on... Keep following the thread and we will learn more in the coming weeks.

This isn't quite true. We had our first April approval on 16 July which is a full 2 weeks ago, since which we haven't seen any progress. Which suggests that they have been consciously avoiding doing the post-biometric people so far.

You may be right though. As I said, it may be that there is some clunky process that needs to end first before they move onto us. Or it might just be a decision to literally work through every relatively straightforward pre-April 6th application before starting on us. Remember there are still lots of people waiting from the beginning of March (and earlier in a few cases).

[Amritsar singh]

Anybody got approval after 06th April ????

[rroy111]

Got the approval today It was dated 21 July and arrived today - 31st July.

[Amritsar singh]

That's good when you applied

[sreaga127]

Gents received my dependent approval today timeline below:
Eligibility: Applied as spouse of British citizen, 7 days less than required number of days in last 3years on date of application however have had lived in UK from last 5 years on Tier 1 + 1 year ILR
Not given India address in application for absence period.
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application:NCS
Council name if NCS used: Dudley
Date of application: 31/03/2015
Payment method: Credit card
Date of receipt by UKBA:1/04/2015
Date of acknowledgment:21/04/2015
Date of debit or clearance of fees:18/04/2014
Date approval received: 01/08/2015 dated 23/07/2015
Date of ceremony: posted Ceremony application to council 01/08/2015

[meeza]

Eligibility criteria: Tier 1 G + 1 Year ILR
Language criteria met (NARIC confirmation, IELTS Scorecard used for initial/very first application)
Current nationality: Pakistani
Method of application: NCS - Nottinghamshire
Date of application: 31-MAR-2015
Payment method: Debit Card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 01-Apr-2015
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 20-Apr-2015
Date of acknowledgment: 21-Apr-2015
Date approval received: Letter received on 01-08-2015, Dated 28-07/2015
Date of ceremony: TBC

I would consider myself lucky that I have got the approval already considering we have only just started seeing April approvals! (and some of the 1st/2nd Week March applicants are still waiting!)
Not to mention about the others who have been waiting for even longer!

Good Luck to Everyone still waiting!

[luckyapplicant]

i have been a secret onlooker of this forum for more than 4 months now...i really appreciated the admin and members of this post for providing useful information and data time to time. I applied for Naturalisation in April and since then this forum have been my one stop go to place for day to day progress on Home office processing on our applications. I cant deny that in the last few weeks i have been already loosing patience but thanks to almighty i have been little lucky lately. Good luck to all those who are waiting...here is my timeline:

Method of application:NCS
Council name if NCS used: Swindon
Date of application: 1/04/2015
Payment method: Debit card
Date of receipt by UKBA:2/04/2015
Date of acknowledgment:27/04/2015
Date of debit or clearance of fees:24/04/2014
Date approval received: 01/08/2015 dated 24/07/2015
Date of ceremony: Not yet booked

[vallae14]

Like I said in my previous post earlier. The true indication is when the first BRP applicant has been approved. There's no point speculating or loosing sleep over this. As Baz Lurman said "worrying is like trying to solve Algebra by chewing bubble gum". So please keep yourselves busy with whatever it is you do. I'm in the same boat as I applied 29/04/2015.
Peace

[usman81]

I know someone not on this forum has already got post post april 6 brp application approved.

[ik_aam_insaan]

Things are looking good hope to see our approvals soon soon InshaAllah ...