Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

j888wjp wrote:hi i got IN10 driving coviction 5 years ago ,and i apply naturalization last week went to NCS they just tick the 3.6 - Criminal Offence box, did not mention any thing in any where ,but they did copy my paper driving license ,would this be ok or should i do some thing now? many thanks

Seems fine.

[quote="Christianoronaldo"][quote="abbei"]I applied on 11th April 2013 and still waiting[/quote]

What is your nationality?

Are you claiming any benefit?[/quote] the person who has ILR is allowed to claim benifits if they are out of work and claiming benifit has no effect on naturalisation application. so please dont try to put doubt in peoples mind. i think you should consantrate on making coments on football christianoronaldo

j888wjp wrote:hi i got IN10 driving coviction 5 years ago ,and i apply naturalization last week went to NCS they just tick the 3.6 - Criminal Offence box, did not mention any thing in any where ,but they did copy my paper driving license ,would this be ok or should i do some thing now? many thanks

No it should be okay as it's attached. They attached my CRB too and didn't fill anything. Hope for best and good luck.

Eligibility Criteria: Spouse British Citizen 2 Year + ILR 1 Year
Method Of Application: National Checking Service Manchester (£45.00)
Date Of Application: 13/03/2013
Date Of Receipt By UKBA: 14/03/2013 (Checked Online Royal Mail Tracking)
Date Of Debit Of Fees: 20/03/2013
Date Of Receipt Of Acknowledgement: 27/03/2013 (Letter Dated: 20/03/13)
Date Of Receipt Of Approval: TBC
Date Of Ceremony: TBC

I Can See That A Majority Of People Who Applied 2nd Week Or 3rd Week Of March 2013 Are Still Waiting For Approval.

Lets Hope For The Best.

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Update 22.07.13

I Emailed Home Office On Thursday 18.07.13 Asking Them If They Have Sent Any Further Correspondence After The Acknowledgement.

I Got A Reply From The Home Office This Morning At 09:22 Hrs Stating The Following (Thank You For Your Email Below, I Can Confirm That No Further Letters Have Been Sent Since That You Received On 20th March 2013. Your Address Details Are Held Correctly On Our System.)

Then I Got Another Email From The Home Office At 14:18 Hrs Stating The Following (Thank You For Your Email. I Have Checked Our Records And Can Confirm That A Decision Has Been Made On Your Application. The Decision Letter And Any Supporting Documents Should Be With You Shortly. If You Do Not Receive The Decision By 5th August, Please Contact Us Again.)

Now The Actual Wait & Suspense Starts What The Decision Is + When The Post Man Is Going To Bring The Brown Envelope. Will Update As Soon As The Brown Envelope Arrives.

abbei wrote:I applied on 11th April 2013 and still waiting

I applied 16th April, still waiting.................God knows for how long

Same for me still waiting.

I am Turkish by the way (people keep asking about nationalities). Obtained my ILR for 5yrs continous employment.

Have a bit higher than allowed absences due to my travel (work for an int'l bank). Both my past 5 years and 12 months are in excess of allowed limits (c. 500 and 120). I got a letter from my employer to confirm my business travel and also showed my mortgage documents to prove my permanent establishment...Not sure if I should be worried or not...

rajan1984 wrote:Still waiting for the results .... How about you guys

cordelio wrote:

rajan1984 wrote:

ukilrforman wrote:I have applied on May 17.
Acknowledgment received on 28 May.

Still waiting.

I am same as you .. I have applied on 17th May through NCS Bracknell but I am still waiting ... I dont know if its to do with the date of applying

Please keep me posted with your results

Joining the club of May 17 applicants. I have applied the same day (NCS), UKBA received on 20th May, fees and acknowledgement letter both on 24th...and still no sight of approval. Today is 9th week since the application

Eligibility Criteria:
Method Of Application: wandsworth checking service
Date Of Application: 19/4/2013
Date Of Receipt By UKBA: 23/04/2013
Date Of Debit Of Fees: 25/4/2013
Date Of Receipt Of Acknowledgement: 29/4/2013
Date Of Receipt Of Approval: 15/5/2013
Date Of Ceremony: 24/7/2013
notice it took 2 months for me to get a cermoney date, this is because the home office never sent me a approval letter, I have been waiting for the approval letter for 3 months, in the end I recived a letter from wandsworth council on the 15th July stating that I need to book a citizenship ceremony before 15/08/2013. I was puzzled when I recived this letter has I havnt had any previous correspondence with the home office. The letter also stated that failure to make a ceremony appointment before 15/8/2013 would lead me to have to re apply! I therefore called wandsworth council and was told my certificate has been sitting in their office for the last 2 months n I had 4 weeks left to book a ceremony and by law they had to contact me to let me know that I had one month left to do so. I have spoken to the home office regarding the matter and not reciving the letter, they told me sometimes they can send the certificate to the point of where u made the original application. The unconvince this has caused me has been totally irrelevant. My application only took 3 weeks and I been waiting for nearly 3 months. All the people who has been waiting since April please call your local authority if u sent the application through them and double check they don't have ur certificate, all the others who sent their application indepertendently, please call/email home office. Ps: even begin told a new letter will be sent out it still havnt been recived and trust me I looked everyday for the brown letter since I recived the acknowledgement letter. Hope this helps someone.

Eligibility Criteria:
Method Of Application: wandsworth checking service
Date Of Application: 19/4/2013
Date Of Receipt By UKBA: 23/04/2013
Date Of Debit Of Fees: 25/4/2013
Date Of Receipt Of Acknowledgement: 29/4/2013
Date Of Receipt Of Approval: 15/5/2013
Date Of Ceremony: 24/7/2013
notice it took 2 months for me to get a cermoney date, this is because the home office never sent me a approval letter, I have been waiting for the approval letter for 3 months, in the end I recived a letter from wandsworth council on the 15th July stating that I need to book a citizenship ceremony before 15/08/2013. I was puzzled when I recived this letter has I havnt had any previous correspondence with the home office. The letter also stated that failure to make a ceremony appointment before 15/8/2013 would lead me to have to re apply! I therefore called wandsworth council and was told my certificate has been sitting in their office for the last 2 months n I had 4 weeks left to book a ceremony and by law they had to contact me to let me know that I had one month left to do so. I have spoken to the home office regarding the matter and not reciving the letter, they told me sometimes they can send the certificate to the point of where u made the original application. The unconvince this has caused me has been totally irrelevant. My application only took 3 weeks and I been waiting for nearly 3 months. All the people who has been waiting since April please call your local authority if u sent the application through them and double check they don't have ur certificate, all the others who sent their application indepertendently, please call/email home office. Ps: even begin told a new letter will be sent out it still havnt been recived and trust me I looked everyday for the brown letter since I recived the acknowledgement letter. Hope this helps someone.

I am an Indian national and my travel days are also higher than the allowed number of days. this makes our applications to be considered and approved at discretion of the Secretary of State. I have read in this blog below that the decision for such cases is currently 2 months approx. from the date of application. We should wait another 2-3 weeks for our responses to be received by post.

cordelio wrote:Same for me still waiting.

I am Turkish by the way (people keep asking about nationalities). Obtained my ILR for 5yrs continous employment.

Have a bit higher than allowed absences due to my travel (work for an int'l bank). Both my past 5 years and 12 months are in excess of allowed limits (c. 500 and 120). I got a letter from my employer to confirm my business travel and also showed my mortgage documents to prove my permanent establishment...Not sure if I should be worried or not...

rajan1984 wrote:Still waiting for the results .... How about you guys

cordelio wrote:

rajan1984 wrote:
I am same as you .. I have applied on 17th May through NCS Bracknell but I am still waiting ... I dont know if its to do with the date of applying

Please keep me posted with your results

Joining the club of May 17 applicants. I have applied the same day (NCS), UKBA received on 20th May, fees and acknowledgement letter both on 24th...and still no sight of approval. Today is 9th week since the application

SofiaofWales wrote:

abbei wrote:I applied on 11th April 2013 and still waiting

I applied 16th April, still waiting.................God knows for how long

applied on 23rd April, still waiting

i applied 4th of april still waiting.

Eligibility Criteria: ILR+1 yr
Method Of Application: Merton checking service
Date Of Application: 17/06/2013
Date Of Receipt By UKBA: 19/06/2013
Date Of Debit Of Fees: 19/06/2013
Date Of Receipt Of Acknowledgement: within two weeks
Date Of Receipt Of Approval: Waiting
Date Of Ceremony: NA

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 6 years A8 EEA worker + non-EEA spouse (includes 12 months automatic PR, confirmation of PR status held for 10 and 8 months respectively but did not send with AN forms; see Q5 of Citizenship FAQs - Common Questions - Read before posting by Jambo)
Method of application: Postal (joint application)
Date of receipt by UKBA: 15/07/2013
Date of debit of fees: 17/07/2013
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 19/07/2013
Date of receipt of approval: 28/08/2013 (dated 12/08/2013)
Date of receipt of invitation to ceremony: 04/09/2013 (dated 27/08/2013)
Date of Ceremony: 11/09/2013

ZAB2121 wrote:

SofiaofWales wrote:

abbei wrote:I applied on 11th April 2013 and still waiting

I applied 16th April, still waiting.................God knows for how long

applied on 23rd April, still waiting

Applied on 22nd April, I am still waiting

facts wrote:Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 6 years EEA worker + non-EEA spouse
Method of application: Postal (joint application)
Date of receipt by UKBA: 15/07/2013
Date of debit of fees: 17/07/2013
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 19/07/2013
Date of receipt of approval: Awaiting
Date of Ceremony:

Hi, we applied on the same basis, (6 years EEA worker and non-EEA spouse from Serbia) but one month before you, on 13/06. Would love to see when you get your approval, we are still waiting for ours Good luck!!!

SofiaofWales wrote:

abbei wrote:I applied on 11th April 2013 and still waiting

I applied 16th April, still waiting.................God knows for how long

Sent an email to ¬HO on Friday 19th july, received a reply this morning stated:
Thank you for your email. I have checked our records and can confirm that no decision has yet been made yet on your application and no letters have yet been sent to you.

We aim to process 95% of applications within 6 months however there will always be a small percentage of applications that take longer than this to be resolved. I cannot give a date by which this application will be resolved, nor can I provide details of the reason(s) why the case is taking this long.
When the decision is made, or if we require further information from you, we will contact you in writing, for this reason please make sure you notify us promptly if you change your address. Your address can be updated here......................

Hi All,

Below is my application timeline which I will keep updated for the help of others.

Eligibility criteria: 2yrs HSMP JR + 2yrs Tier 1 + 3 yrs ILR
Application Type: Self
Method of application: NCS Maidstone
Date Of Application: 23/07/2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 29/07/2013
Date of debit of fees: 29/07/2013 - Paid by credit card
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 01/08/2013
Date of receipt of approval:
Date of Ceremony:

Any questions, please feel free to ask me.

Thanks.

UPDATE :
Received my approval today.
I am from High Risk country. It took five week for decision.

I am very happy and thankful to GOD.
Good luck to all. keep faith. you will have your approval very soon.
@ Budmash you will get it soon keep it up.
Mods here should consider banning Astrid24. This thread is for timeline and he keep posting his nonsense all over the forum.

HIGH RISK COUNTRY THEORY did not work in my case. I have all kind of problems (unpaid council tax bills, debt collectors, parking fines. etc). I suppose its UK life.

i am employed and self employed as well. I did not ticked self employed box in form. and I have underpaid PAYE (tax on employment) bill outstanding.

hemalay wrote:Eligibility criteria : 10 Years long residence + 1 year ILR (ILR stamp date was 14th June 2012 so posted on 13th June 2013)

Method of application : Postal

Date of application : 13 June 2013

Date of receipt by UKBA : 14 June 2013

Date of debit of fee : 17 June 2013

Date acknowledged : 17 June 2013 ( letter received 19 June 2013 Dated 17/06/2013 )

Date of approval : 22/07/2013 Received 24/07/2013

Date of Ceremony :

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Sent 3 previous passports and LIUK test (original). also sent P60 (I don't know why I did that ). and also included a prepaid special delivery envelope.

Can see here few of applications sent on 13 June and fee taken on 17th June.

Good Luck every one

hemalay wrote:UPDATE :
Received my approval today.
I am from High Risk country. It took five week for decision.

I am very happy and thankful to GOD.
Good luck to all. keep faith. you will have your approval very soon.
@ Budmash you will get it soon keep it up.
Mods here should consider banning Astrid24. This thread is for timeline and he keep posting his nonsense all over the forum.

HIGH RISK COUNTRY THEORY did not work in my case. I have all kind of problems (unpaid council tax bills, debt collectors, parking fines. etc). I suppose its UK life.

i am employed and self employed as well. I did not ticked self employed box in form. and I have underpaid PAYE (tax on employment) bill outstanding.

hemalay wrote:Eligibility criteria : 10 Years long residence + 1 year ILR (ILR stamp date was 14th June 2012 so posted on 13th June 2013)

Method of application : Postal

Date of application : 13 June 2013

Date of receipt by UKBA : 14 June 2013

Date of debit of fee : 17 June 2013

Date acknowledged : 17 June 2013 ( letter received 19 June 2013 Dated 17/06/2013 )

Date of approval : 22/07/2013 Received 24/07/2013

Date of Ceremony :

___________________________________________________________

Sent 3 previous passports and LIUK test (original). also sent P60 (I don't know why I did that ). and also included a prepaid special delivery envelope.

Can see here few of applications sent on 13 June and fee taken on 17th June.

Good Luck every one

Haha. Mods should condsider banning me why? Because I have my own opinions and I say them and you don't like what I say? Don't be ridiculous. It's a board. I can say whatever I want to as long as I'm not being rude to anyone and as far as I can see I have not been rude. And what nonsense have I been posting all over the forum? I've actually helped a lot of people. I've never read such rubbish.

As I've said before, people are all adults on this board yet they seem to be so over sensitive. If you don't like what I post then just ignore my post. It's not difficult to do if you're an adult. Instead you start whining like a child and asking mods to ban me. Grow up.

^^^^
This Nonsense.
This thread is for time line only and you have some inferiority complex which need to be addressed by some professional.
I have always ignored you and I will keep ignoring your posts.

hemalay wrote:^^^^
This Nonsense.
This thread is for time line only and you have some inferiority complex which need to be addressed by some professional.
I have always ignored you and I will keep ignoring your posts.

You're not very clever are you. This thread is for timelines but YOU keep writing things in here other than timelines. I should be banned for something that you yourself are doing? Haha. YOU wrote something first, which was not just a timeline, and that made me respond. And great, continue to ignore me. Just don't point out my name in your pathetic ramblings. Like I said, GROW UP. Cheers!

Hello dear friends.

I applied for nationality end of June. 28th June and money was taken early July. I am spouse + ILR.

Spoke to home office this afternoon and they told me my application is "Pending internal enquiries" does that mean its with the caseworker? Anyone has a clue how long is the further wait from this point?

I appreciate your time and response.

Thank you

Is there any way to speak with home office on the phone about progress of application

abbei wrote:Is there any way to speak with home office on the phone about progress of application

Yes there is.

If you have applied via NCS they give a contact number on that which you can call and an email address to which you can email. This will be on the application received and checked paper that NCS give. Will see if I can dig out the number for you.

There is also this web page - http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/about ... tionality/

Please do have a read and act accordingly.

Alsuwaidi wrote:Hello dear friends.

I applied for nationality end of June. 28th June and money was taken early July. I am spouse + ILR.

Spoke to home office this afternoon and they told me my application is "Pending internal enquiries" does that mean its with the caseworker? Anyone has a clue how long is the further wait from this point?

I appreciate your time and response.

Thank you

Alsuwaidi, this just means either
1. That they are still processing your application and need to make more checks and enquires to ascertain few things on your case.
OR
2. That they forgot about your application which went to the bottom of the pile and because you raised a concern, they have now pulled it out and act on it.

Hope this helps.