January 2014 - Naturalization Application Timeline

h-khan wrote:Hi everyone on this forum. I sent an email earlier today on 17/03/14 to HO (nationalityhelpdesk@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk) asking status of my application and they replied the same day:

"I have checked our records and can confirm a decision has been made on this application, the decision letter and any supporting documents will be with you shortly".

What does this mean? Does it mean its an approval? I applied on 16/01/2014 using NCS
Thanks

guavaguy wrote:Eligibility criteria: Spouse of British citizen
Language criteria met : UK Masters Degree + LIfe in the UK
Method of application: NCS Bracknell
Date of application: 13/01/2014
Payment method: Credit Card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 14/01/2014
Date of acknowlegment: 29/1/2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 28/01/2014
Date approval received: 17/3/2014 (dated 11/3/2014)
Date of ceremony: TBA

by sylm_2000 » Mon Mar 17, 2014 10:05 pm

sylm_2000 wrote:
Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 5 years UK Resident Work Permit + 1 Year ILR (Self, Spouse + child registration)
Date of Application: 06 January 2014
Method of application: NCS Hammersmith and Fulham
Date of receipt by UKBA:No Confirmation
Date of debit of fees:28/Jan/2014 (by CC)
Date of receipt of acknowledgement:
Date of receipt of approval:17 March 2014 dated 07 March 2014
Date of Ceremony: planning for private ceremony.

Keen to know current processing time due to travel commitments in coming months.


I was a little anxious as we used PBS print out to support English language requirement for my spouse's overseas degree (B.Engineering) and letter from the institute to support our application. All went well !!

Very pleased decision received from UKBA ! Good luck to all ....

Thanks to the members and mods who maintain this forum.

20shamat wrote:

20shamat wrote:Eligibility criteria: 5yrs + 1 yr ILR
Language criteria met : LiUK+IELTS+PBS
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Redbridge
Date of application: 20-01-14
Payment method :Debit card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 22-01-14
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 28-01-14
Date of acknowledgment: 31/01/2014 (Dated)
Date approval received: 17-03-2014 letter dated 09-03-2014
Date of ceremony: 20/03/2014 - Private ceremony
Hi Everyone, received my approval letter (famous brown envelope). Many thanks to the moderators and advisors. All the best wishes to remaining applicants.

Casapot wrote:My husband received his approval letter today
For citizenship
Eligibility: Spouse of British Citizen
Applied: 20th January
Fees taken: 30th January
Approval and documents received: 12th March (dated 10th March)
Citizenship Ceremony: 27th March


Thank God it has arrived! Good luck on all of you that are still waiting... Reading through these posts have really got me through the wait and thanks to Bateleykhan for all of his help when we first started the journey applying for the spouse visa

jmehmud wrote:Hi All!

There is no doubt, this forum is such a helpful resource for all the applicants but this is still lacking with one massive information and that is contact date to referee.

I think administrator of this forum should add this point in thread timeline questionnaire so then everybody can enter the date whenever their referees are being contacted by HO so we all will get an idea that how much time usually HO takes to process the application after contacting the referees or in other words once HO gets the feedback from the referees then how long they take.

I hope who ever runs this thread or forum will consider my suggestion. Thanks

Regards

by chopchak » Tue Mar 18, 2014 11:31 am

Feb approval Update
quote=Eligibility criteria:
Language criteria:
Current nationality:
Method of application: POST-self+3
Council name if NCS used:
Date of application: 03/02/2014 (delivered by RM )
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: CREDIT CARD
Date of receipt by UKBA: 03/02/2014
Date of aknowlegment: 10/02/2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 06/02/2014( available balance dropped )
Date approval received: 18/03/2014
Date of ceremony: no date yet

milan69 wrote:I had to call over 20 times on 0300 number before I got through. Have you tried emailing them?