Waiting " sucks"

Anyone waiting from 1st week of May

madi wrote:Anyone waiting from 1st week of May

If you are a citizen of one of the following countries, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Palestine, Jordan and few other middle eastern countries. Expect a delay of upto 3 - 6 months from the date of application.

there are many people from these countries waiting and they have applied in Feb - April. I assume HO makes some other checks on these nationalities which takes longer.

scrapper wrote:

madi wrote:Anyone waiting from 1st week of May

If you are a citizen of one of the following countries, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Palestine, Jordan and few other middle eastern countries. Expect a delay of upto 3 - 6 months from the date of application.

there are many people from these countries waiting and they have applied in Feb - April. I assume HO makes some other checks on these nationalities which takes longer.

Are you sure this is true? I am waiting for over 3 months and am belongs to one of the countries u mentioned. I heard this before but was not sure it was true as HO didn't mention it anywhere. tnx for info

SofiaofWales: scrapper is 100% correct. I have done some extensive research on it and have also spoken to at least 10 people who are from one of these countries and currently awaiting decisions on their applications which are taking 3-6 months. I am also from one of these countries and sent my application in 1st week of May. Still waiting

SofiaofWales wrote:

scrapper wrote:

madi wrote:Anyone waiting from 1st week of May

If you are a citizen of one of the following countries, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Palestine, Jordan and few other middle eastern countries. Expect a delay of upto 3 - 6 months from the date of application.

there are many people from these countries waiting and they have applied in Feb - April. I assume HO makes some other checks on these nationalities which takes longer.

Are you sure this is true? I am waiting for over 3 months and am belongs to one of the countries u mentioned. I heard this before but was not sure it was true as HO didn't mention it anywhere. tnx for info

This was an assumption, if you look through the timeline you will see there are so many people from these countries who had to wait between 2 - 6 months. For example following authors are still waiting or had to wait for long time: ayesha11, ikk1980, ukforever, syedyasir4, Mrs Azad, miyazi78, abedul_ala, fiqbal, saadmushtaq, ya75khan, Sorry2 and many more.

By looking at the trend I think citizens of the following countries Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Palestine, Jordan and few other middle eastern countries are subject to additional inquiries and checks.

Home Office will never mention this anywhere to avoid backlash from the public. This is the research that I carried out. There are so many applicants who received their approval within 2 weeks after submitting the application and none of them are from the countries mentioned above. This has to be HO's internal classified policy.

I completely agree with you scrapper. I also got excited to see 2 or 3 weeks approval times but then I realised the fact that certain nationality's applications are taking a lot longer than others.

I have myself spoken to at least 8-10 people on this forum who have confirmed that they are from one of these countries and are waiting for 3,4 or 6 months.

I think citizens of the above mentioned countries are considered high risk. Therefore HO have to make additional enquiries such as US CIA and GCHQ Intelligence and etc,.

That's correct scrapper. As most applications are straight forward and the refusal rate of citizenship applications is only 4%, the applications from these countries' nationals eventually get approved but just take a long time (usually between 3-6 months).

Linkers Please update this thread when you get your approval. I applied on 17th of June, it has not been a month since I applied. So I am guessing it may take between 2 to 4 months to get the outcome.

Linkers I wish you all the best and hope you get your approval soon.

No problem scrapper. I and some more people (who are in a similar state) will update this post and also our main BC timeliness as soon as we get our approvals.

As I mentioned earlier, there is nothing to worry about as most BC applications are straight forward, refusal rate is very low and they eventually get approved. As far as the processing time is concerned, this seems to be quite normal for certain nationalities as UKBA needs to do some additional checks (God only knows what checks they are ).

Linkers I was reading a document from the link you posted above in one of the posts. It is very interesting to see the breakdown of the applications, grant, refusal and geographical statistics.

Keep up the good work buddy.

Yeah it's very interesting to know these facts. You will also find details of all other categories (work, visit, study, ILR etc) in it.

scrapper wrote:Linkers I was reading a document from the link you posted above in one of the posts. It is very interesting to see the breakdown of the applications, grant, refusal and geographical statistics.

Keep up the good work buddy.

where is the link?

njoy1987 wrote:

scrapper wrote:Linkers I was reading a document from the link you posted above in one of the posts. It is very interesting to see the breakdown of the applications, grant, refusal and geographical statistics.

Keep up the good work buddy.

where is the link?

http://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/immigrat ... citizeship

Thanks for sharing the link D4109125.

njoy1987: The URL was embedded in 4%.

linkers wrote:Thanks for sharing the link D4109125.

njoy1987: The URL was embedded in 4%.

Sorry didnt see many thanks

no problem njoy1987

scrapper wrote:

SofiaofWales wrote:

scrapper wrote:

madi wrote:Anyone waiting from 1st week of May

If you are a citizen of one of the following countries, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Palestine, Jordan and few other middle eastern countries. Expect a delay of upto 3 - 6 months from the date of application.

there are many people from these countries waiting and they have applied in Feb - April. I assume HO makes some other checks on these nationalities which takes longer.

Are you sure this is true? I am waiting for over 3 months and am belongs to one of the countries u mentioned. I heard this before but was not sure it was true as HO didn't mention it anywhere. tnx for info

This was an assumption, if you look through the timeline you will see there are so many people from these countries who had to wait between 2 - 6 months. For example following authors are still waiting or had to wait for long time: ayesha11, ikk1980, ukforever, syedyasir4, Mrs Azad, miyazi78, abedul_ala, fiqbal, saadmushtaq, ya75khan, Sorry2 and many more.

By looking at the trend I think citizens of the following countries Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Palestine, Jordan and few other middle eastern countries are subject to additional inquiries and checks.

Home Office will never mention this anywhere to avoid backlash from the public. This is the research that I carried out. There are so many applicants who received their approval within 2 weeks after submitting the application and none of them are from the countries mentioned above. This has to be HO's internal classified policy.

I have noticed that too, I submitted my application early June and I saw others who submitted in June have already been approved.

I come from the Middle East.

I don't know what to call this. Is it not discrimination to a race / religion.

Why UKBA judge an individual by his/ her own home country specially for someone like that j spent most of my life in the uk.

Very annoying.

Azhaar wrote:

scrapper wrote:

SofiaofWales wrote:

scrapper wrote:
If you are a citizen of one of the following countries, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Palestine, Jordan and few other middle eastern countries. Expect a delay of upto 3 - 6 months from the date of application.

there are many people from these countries waiting and they have applied in Feb - April. I assume HO makes some other checks on these nationalities which takes longer.

Are you sure this is true? I am waiting for over 3 months and am belongs to one of the countries u mentioned. I heard this before but was not sure it was true as HO didn't mention it anywhere. tnx for info

This was an assumption, if you look through the timeline you will see there are so many people from these countries who had to wait between 2 - 6 months. For example following authors are still waiting or had to wait for long time: ayesha11, ikk1980, ukforever, syedyasir4, Mrs Azad, miyazi78, abedul_ala, fiqbal, saadmushtaq, ya75khan, Sorry2 and many more.

By looking at the trend I think citizens of the following countries Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Palestine, Jordan and few other middle eastern countries are subject to additional inquiries and checks.

Home Office will never mention this anywhere to avoid backlash from the public. This is the research that I carried out. There are so many applicants who received their approval within 2 weeks after submitting the application and none of them are from the countries mentioned above. This has to be HO's internal classified policy.

I have noticed that too, I submitted my application early June and I saw others who submitted in June have already been approved.

I come from the Middle East.

I don't know what to call this. Is it not discrimination to a race / religion.

Why UKBA judge an individual by his/ her own home country specially for someone like that j spent most of my life in the uk.

Very annoying.

Indirect discrimination perhaps, though arguably justified in the interest of national security which, generally outweighs anything else.

I applied on 13th June, so lets see how long it takes. people from June are receiving approvals right, left and center.

Scrapper and linkers theory of high risk countries is on test here.

Good Luck to all

hemalay: I applied on 8th May and still waiting. I know at least 8 more people on this forum (and they are are from one of these countries) who are also waiting for 3-4 months.

I've applied on the 25th of April and still waiting. I'm not from any of those countries.

HelenaTores: There could be other reasons for the delay. The reason I and scrapper mentioned the 'high risk country' factor is because 8 out of 10 delay cases we have seen on the forum are from the nationals of these countries.


The most common reasons for the delay are: (if you are not from one of the high risk countries).

1). Not meeting the residential requirement.
2). One of the passports is lost.
3). Criminal Convictions.
4). Tax related issues etc.

If none of the above applies to you, then don't forget UKBA's standard processing time for BC applications is 6 months. The reason a lot of people are getting quick approvals could be the low work load in the dept which handles citizenship applications. That doesn't mean everyone will get approval in 3 or 4 weeks as there could be other factors (like some case workers could be less efficient than others).

Hi All,

I have a suggestion, can we add the country of origin to the timeline fields so that things are clearer. As everybody knows quite few people in the situation if we add this to the timeline we will be able to look at things on a bigger sample size.

That's a very good suggestion imran22 and I think I suggested it in one of the posts that we should add country of origin in the citizenship timeline.