March 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline

Eligibility criteria: HSMP + Tier 1 General + ILR
Language criteria met: PBS Document + IELTS for Spouse
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Peterborough
Date of application: 15/03/2014
Payment method: Credit Card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 21/03/2014
Date of aknowlegment: Received 29/03/2014 Dated 24/03/2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 26/03/2014
Date approval received: 10/05/2014 Dtd 01/05/2014
Date of ceremony: TBC

Hello Everyone!

A huge congrats to the people who have received their approvals in the last week

I have included the new members who've posted their timelines recently,

hsmp_secunderabad, Muscovite, jeeva, longhorn1, shaaskul, ec_struggle and chingomingo

Here is the updated list

Once again mate, great job man4uni, thanks for the all effort
Congrats to all new approval and good luck to rest of us.

Eligibility criteria: HSMP + Tier 1 General + ILR
Language criteria met: PBS points page, LIUK test
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Southend-on-Sea
Date of application: 26/03/2014
Payment method: Debit Card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 27/03/2014
Date of aknowlegment: Received 07/04/2014 Dated 01/04/2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 01/04/2014
Date approval received: 10/05/2014 Dtd 06/05/2014
Date of ceremony: TBC

shaaskul wrote:Eligibility criteria: 2Y HSMP + 3Y Tier 1 + 1Y ILR
Language criteria met : Original Degree certificate used for HSMP application in 2008 + PBS printout, Life in UK certificate
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS Bracknell
Date of application: 21/03/2014
Payment method : Credit card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 25/03/2014
Date of acknowledgment: 02/04/2014 (Dated: 28/03/2014)
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 28/03/2014
Date approval received: 10-05-2014 (dated 01-05-2014)
Date of ceremony:Pending

Hi, Can you please let me know on PBS calculator print out? Is it the old PBS calculator print out which you used for Tier1 or ILR? If new then please let me know the link etc for PBS calculator for Naturalisation. Also can I use the similar PBS calculator for my spouse(who was on dependent HSMP & Tier1 ) as well?

Please let me know.

J

Hi everyone,

Thanks God. I received my approval letter and the council letter on Saturday 10th of May. My time is as follows

Eligibility criteria: British Spouse
Language criteria met (UK degree, exempt countries, PBS used documents, NARIC, or B1 test): UK DEGREE
Current nationality: Pakistani
Method of application: NCS MAIDSTONE
Date of application:11/03/2014
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: Debit card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 13/03/2014
Date of acknowledgment: 22/03/14
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 18/03/2014
Date approval received: 10/05/14 dated 06/05/14
Date of ceremony: 22/05/14

Special thanks to this forum.

Nadeem

I rung HO today and the operator said, my file is allocated to a case worker and it will take normal processing time.
Is there anyone know what is normal processing time???

[quote=ncgeorge123"]I rung HO today and the operator said, my file is allocated to a case worker and it will take normal processing time.
Is there anyone know what is normal processing time???[/quote]

They aim to complete 10 applications a day so by the end of the week or earlier they could complete it but then whenYou factor in HO delay in posting the documents it could be next week before you receive it. So just hang on not long left now. Mine was completed on the 28th of April and I only got it on the 8th of may. As long as its with a caseworker half your worries is over. Another thing is sometimes the call center guys dont have up to date info.

@lamijm

Thanks for the reply. Hope the waiting game won't last that long. Ryt?? Being tired of waiting for years and atleast the head ache vl be over soon.

lamijm wrote:

ncgeorge123" wrote:I rung HO today and the operator said, my file is allocated to a case worker and it will take normal processing time.
Is there anyone know what is normal processing time???

They aim to complete 10 applications a day so by the end of the week or earlier they could complete it but then whenYou factor in HO delay in posting the documents it could be next week before you receive it. So just hang on not long left now. Mine was completed on the 28th of April and I only got it on the 8th of may. As long as its with a caseworker half your worries is over. Another thing is sometimes the call center guys dont have up to date info.

Hi,

I am still waiting ...............I applied on 12 March. I rung HO last week Friday n they said your application is with CW n I think its already been reviewed but CW hasn't made any decision, pls call before end of this month but you might get your decision before. what is the meaning of this..........

I donno if its already been reviewed then y decision has not been taken yet!!!!!

[quote="myrlabelle"]Eligibility criteria: 10 year uk stay+british spouse for 6 yrs+ 18 mnths ILR
Language criteria met (UK BBA+life in the UK+ TOFEL )
Current nationality: Russian
Method of application: Royal mail next day

Date of application: 17/03/2014
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: DC
Date of receipt by UKBA: 18/03/2014
Date of aknowlegment: NEVER RECEIVED
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 26/03/2014
Date approval received:3RD MAY 2014
Date of ceremony:21ST MAY 2014

Finally my journey on this is drawing to an end! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE AND THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH FOR ALL THE HELP YOU OFFERED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS <3

faani wrote:

lamijm wrote:

ncgeorge123" wrote:I rung HO today and the operator said, my file is allocated to a case worker and it will take normal processing time.
Is there anyone know what is normal processing time???

They aim to complete 10 applications a day so by the end of the week or earlier they could complete it but then whenYou factor in HO delay in posting the documents it could be next week before you receive it. So just hang on not long left now. Mine was completed on the 28th of April and I only got it on the 8th of may. As long as its with a caseworker half your worries is over. Another thing is sometimes the call center guys dont have up to date info.

Hi,

I am still waiting ...............I applied on 12 March. I rung HO last week Friday n they said your application is with CW n I think its already been reviewed but CW hasn't made any decision, pls call before end of this month but you might get your decision before. what is the meaning of this..........

I donno if its already been reviewed then y decision has not been taken yet!!!!!

Hi faani, I think you guys will be out your miseries by next week. I know the wait is really bad as I was gutted each day when I saw the postman bypass my house or didnt deliver the brown envelope. It all will be over soon dont worry. It has also gotten a bit lonely in this forum ive noticed especially for the fact that as people get approved they stop posting.

I made my application on the 27th of March. I was bored at the office and called up the 0300 123 2253 customer service number at about 4:50pm just to get an idea of my application status. A nice friendly guy picked up the phone and asked for my name,dob,ref number and nationality- after a few seconds he said ''we aim to deal with all applications with a six month period''- (normal standard reply). He went on to say your application is waiting allocation to a case worker lol and should be dealt with soon.

I'm just going be patient and wait- One day I'm sure the brown envelope would turn up .. Congrats to those who have received their approvals so far

Hi Lasthurdle,
I am a 27th March applicant as well. I called on 6th May and got same reply. Looking at few 26th March approvals which got done on 1st and 6th, I was hoping that our case might have gone to a caseworker by now. But now after your call, looks like that either info is not right or there process of allocation is crap. It will be interesting to see if an applicant after 28th gets approval before.
I don't have issues with case worker taking time but definitely can't get my head around the process related to allocation of case.
Hope to get it soon.

I am also waiting. 27 march i applied. Lets see what haapend. Thanks

Hi Haidi5

You're right it would be interesting to see what happens this week with approvals from the 4th week or even folks who applied just after us. At least you're not alone The positive is that March approvals are coming in somewhat ''thick & fast''.

@gaboon_viper- fingers crossed, it might be worth updating your timeline so it's added to the 4th week as well

I am the 27th March as well hope this week will deliver something..

Date o application: 27th/March/2014
Application received by UKBA: 29th/March/2014
Date of fees clearence: 04th/April/2014
Date of aknowledge letter: written ot 04th/April/2014 received on 07th/April/2014
Date of approval:
Date of ceremony:

Here is one more applicant of 27th Of March. Let us see if this week brings any news. Good luck to all of us.

I want to share my phone call experience today. My application was recieved on 24 March. I rung HO and the guy said you have to wait anything up to 6 months. He said it's not yet allocated to a CW I was annoyed and said you all give different ( WRONG ) information. Can I get the correct update please then he said ok wait a moment ( let me check something) after 10 seconds he said your application is with a CW ( allocated) I was still annoyed and said to him, 2 seconds ago you told me not allocated and now you saying is allocated. Yes sorry I had to check second screen and normally is not correct details on the system. I made him confirm is allocated/with a CW.

I think also Royal Mail should not be blamed. Looking at some of the posts,approvals dated 6th May have reached applicant by 10th May. So definitely that delay of delivery is on the part of HO.

Haidi5 wrote:I think also Royal Mail should not be blamed. Looking at some of the posts,approvals dated 6th May have reached applicant by 10th May. So definitely that delay of delivery is on the part of HO.

Thats what I been saying. Its when HO delivers the letters to royal mail. Royal mail delivers second class mails in 3 days.

This is my experience,
Applied on 05/03/14,
reached HO 06/03/14,
Account Debited 12/03/14
Acknowledgment letter dated 12/03/14
Reached me on 18/03/14

Rung HO several times and they said it's not allocated to case worker. At last I rung yesterday 12/05/14 and operator mentioned it's now with a CW and it will take normal processing time. But yesterday I got a brown envelope saying they are happy
with my documents and returned my B1 Trinity English Certificate and other copies of documents which I submitted through solicitor. It's dated 08/05/14 and I received on 12/05/14. Along with that they mentioned my application is successful and I will get an invitation for ceremony in 2 weeks and I have to wait until I receive that to contact the council for ceremony. I am glad that I didn't get rejected. But my concern is why the HO OR IT'S CALL CENTERS CANT PROVIDE A CORRECT INFORMATION TO THE CALLER??

Hi, feeling bored. Called HO for status. Lady said they will call me back. Took my number. Will update if recieve call back from them. Cheers