July 2013 - Naturalisation application Timeline

Peacock4 wrote:Eligibility: 5 years Tier1, 1 Year ILR
Method of Application:
Date of Application: 6 July 2013
Application received by UKBA: 9 July 2013
Date of Acknowledgement: 13 July 2013
Date of debit of fees: 11 July 2013
Approval Letter: Dated 24th July Received 22 August
Ceremony: 11-Sep

Congrats peacock, it would be interesting to know if you local authority has your certificate; if they do; that probably means that the IT issue has been resolved. Could you let us know when you find out?

Cheers

D

Peacock4 wrote:Eligibility: 5 years Tier1, 1 Year ILR
Method of Application:
Date of Application: 6 July 2013
Application received by UKBA: 9 July 2013
Date of Acknowledgement: 13 July 2013
Date of debit of fees: 11 July 2013
Approval Letter: Dated 24th July Received 22 August
Ceremony: 11-Sep

Congrats peacock, it would be interesting to know if you local authority has your certificate; if they do; that probably means that the IT issue has been resolved. Could you let us know when you find out?

Cheers

D

I dont know about they received the certificate. I received the approvel letter today and called them they said next available date and booked it.

Yes he is and his profile below.

http://immigrationboards.com/profile.ph ... le&u=76373

Derivaz wrote:

hass1234 wrote:Looks like approvals has started again as EMO has received letter today dated 18 August 2013.

That would be good news; is EMO a forum member? do you have his/her time line?

Cheers

D

Peacock4 wrote:I dont know about they received the certificate. I received the approvel letter today and called them they said next available date and booked it.

Means they have Peacock4's certificate.

hass1234 wrote:Yes he is and his profile below.

http://immigrationboards.com/profile.ph ... le&u=76373

Derivaz wrote:

hass1234 wrote:Looks like approvals has started again as EMO has received letter today dated 18 August 2013.

That would be good news; is EMO a forum member? do you have his/her time line?

Cheers

D

cheers Hass1234

I read his posts and it seems like he wrote approval letter 22/08/2013, but it wasn't clear if that's the day he received it or the day it was dated; someone asked him to clarify; do you know if he did?

facts wrote:

Peacock4 wrote:I dont know about they received the certificate. I received the approvel letter today and called them they said next available date and booked it.

Means they have Peacock4's certificate.

Good shout; if they let him book an appointment for the ceremony; I guess they already have his/her certificate; otherwise, i think they would have told me that they don't have the certificate.

It sounds like good news

Yes he did clarify that letter was printed on 14th of August

Derivaz wrote:

hass1234 wrote:Yes he is and his profile below.

http://immigrationboards.com/profile.ph ... le&u=76373

Derivaz wrote:

hass1234 wrote:Looks like approvals has started again as EMO has received letter today dated 18 August 2013.

That would be good news; is EMO a forum member? do you have his/her time line?

Cheers

D

cheers Hass1234

I read his posts and it seems like he wrote approval letter 22/08/2013, but it wasn't clear if that's the day he received it or the day it was dated; someone asked him to clarify; do you know if he did?

hass1234 wrote:Yes he did clarify that letter was printed on 14th of August

Derivaz wrote:

hass1234 wrote:Yes he is and his profile below.

http://immigrationboards.com/profile.ph ... le&u=76373

Derivaz wrote:
That would be good news; is EMO a forum member? do you have his/her time line?

Cheers

D

cheers Hass1234

I read his posts and it seems like he wrote approval letter 22/08/2013, but it wasn't clear if that's the day he received it or the day it was dated; someone asked him to clarify; do you know if he did?

Cheers Hass1234

Ladies and Gents,

I suppose it's a positive news for July applicants.......

Love all,
No1UKLover

NO1UKlover wrote:Ladies and Gents,

I suppose it's a positive news for July applicants.......

Love all,
No1UKLover

Hopefully,

Any more decision letters received lately?

Hi all - not sure if this info helps you but I am in the August timeline and noticed that some of the other August people have received letters dated in August (acknowledgement letters only though). Hopefully this means the HO is able to print letters ok.

Hope this info helps!

fingerscrossed123 wrote:Hi all - not sure if this info helps you but I am in the August timeline and noticed that some of the other August people have received letters dated in August (acknowledgement letters only though). Hopefully this means the HO is able to print letters ok.

Hope this info helps!

the issue seems to be with printing the certificates not acknowledgement letters just wait a few mire days sometimes u have to wait for acknowledgement letter sometimes u dont get them at all I am sure you will update your timeline when u recieve yours good luck

A friend applied on 9th August 2013
Fee was taken on 14th August 2013
Acknowledgement was issued on the same date (Received in the post on 21st August 2013) and read as follows
This is to acknowledge receipt of your application(s) and the following document(s);
No. of Applications - I
Our Ref: Type of Application - AN6(1) +
Ceremony
Application Forms - I Covering Letters - I
Photo-copied Documents Supporting Document - I
We also acknowledge receipt of direct credit payment(s) totalling f874.00.
A total of E874.00 has been received.
The fee has been paid in full.

Cheers
VR

PS: Hopefully everyone waiting will get some news and relief.

VR wrote:A friend applied on 9th August 2013
Fee was taken on 14th August 2013
Acknowledgement was issued on the same date (Received in the post on 21st August 2013) and read as follows
This is to acknowledge receipt of your application(s) and the following document(s);
No. of Applications - I
Our Ref: Type of Application - AN6(1) +
Ceremony
Application Forms - I Covering Letters - I
Photo-copied Documents Supporting Document - I
We also acknowledge receipt of direct credit payment(s) totalling f874.00.
A total of E874.00 has been received.
The fee has been paid in full.

Cheers
VR

PS: Hopefully everyone waiting will get some news and relief.

That's the standard acknowledgement letter, but they don't seem to be sending out many decision letters, if any at all.... I get the impression, we are in for a long wait.....

Hi all,

I am very happy to let you know that I received an invitation letter for citizenship ceremony from the council today dated 23/08/2013. I haven't received an approval letter from UKBA yet so I was surprised when I opened the envelope. The council have already arranged a date for me to attend the citizenship ceremony which is 4th September. I am thinking of changing the ceremony date to a later day so my friends can come. It is too soon.

My timeline is as follows: (Turkish citizen)
Date of application (NCS Chelmsford): 11/07/2013
Date on the acknowledgement letter: 16/07/2013
Date of debit of fees: 22/07/2013 (paid by cheque)
Date of approval: Don't know as I didn't receive approval letter yet.
Date of invitation later from the council: 24/08/2013 dated 23/08/2013
Date of citizenship ceremony: 04/09/2013

I am over the moon. I hope all of you guys receive your approvals soon.

boniface wrote:Hi all,

I am very happy to let you know that I received an invitation letter for citizenship ceremony from the council today dated 23/08/2013. I haven't received an approval letter from UKBA yet so I was surprised when I opened the envelope. The council have already arranged a date for me to attend the citizenship ceremony which is 4th September. I am thinking of changing the ceremony date to a later day so my friends can come. It is too soon.

My timeline is as follows: (Turkish citizen)
Date of application (NCS Chelmsford): 11/07/2013
Date on the acknowledgement letter: 16/07/2013
Date of debit of fees: 22/07/2013 (paid by cheque)
Date of approval: Don't know as I didn't receive approval letter yet.
Date of invitation later from the council: 24/08/2013 dated 23/08/2013
Date of citizenship ceremony: 04/09/2013

I am over the moon. I hope all of you guys receive your approvals soon.

wow!!! that s good news for every body

j888wjp wrote:

boniface wrote:Hi all,

I am very happy to let you know that I received an invitation letter for citizenship ceremony from the council today dated 23/08/2013. I haven't received an approval letter from UKBA yet so I was surprised when I opened the envelope. The council have already arranged a date for me to attend the citizenship ceremony which is 4th September. I am thinking of changing the ceremony date to a later day so my friends can come. It is too soon.

My timeline is as follows: (Turkish citizen)
Date of application (NCS Chelmsford): 11/07/2013
Date on the acknowledgement letter: 16/07/2013
Date of debit of fees: 22/07/2013 (paid by cheque)
Date of approval: Don't know as I didn't receive approval letter yet.
Date of invitation later from the council: 24/08/2013 dated 23/08/2013
Date of citizenship ceremony: 04/09/2013

I am over the moon. I hope all of you guys receive your approvals soon.

wow!!! that s good news for every body

Yeah, that means that they are able to enter decisions onto the system again and they are approving July applications now....

The weird thing is that he got the invitation from the council, but no approval from the HO; I guess if the NCS has invited him; it means they got the naturalisation certificate, which means the HO approved it.... so probably no need to contact the HO....

OK folks

The HO issues in dispatch are now resolved and that has only delayed the sending of documents and correspondence, but not the actual process; so theoretically, that means that they should be sending a lot of decision letters shortly....

Let's see what happens....

If anyone receives their decision letter, please, post the timeline here.

Cheers

D

yup! hopefully lots of decisions coming through this week and the next

njoy1987 wrote:yup! hopefully lots of decisions coming through this week and the next

theoretically, yes; but sometimes the HO and logical behaviour doesn't seem to go together haha

Let's see.... for the moment there aren't any posts from people who got their letter.

Derivaz wrote:

njoy1987 wrote:yup! hopefully lots of decisions coming through this week and the next

theoretically, yes; but sometimes the HO and logical behaviour doesn't seem to go together haha

Let's see.... for the moment there aren't any posts from people who got their letter.

was a bank holiday weekend lets see what this working week unfolds

njoy1987 wrote:

Derivaz wrote:

njoy1987 wrote:yup! hopefully lots of decisions coming through this week and the next

theoretically, yes; but sometimes the HO and logical behaviour doesn't seem to go together haha

Let's see.... for the moment there aren't any posts from people who got their letter.

was a bank holiday weekend lets see what this working week unfolds

Yeah, let's see this week; if we don't see several letters for July applicants; we can say that the process is slower now....

Hi Everyone,


I received a letter on 23rd July from HO saying my application was successful and I should receive an invitation letter within 2 weeks. It's over a month already and I still didn't receive it. I sent them two emails regarding my case but I didn't receive any answer. There is no valid phone number. Could you please help me, what should I do now?

Many thanks

MrLondon wrote:Hi Everyone,


I received a letter on 23rd July from HO saying my application was successful and I should receive an invitation letter within 2 weeks. It's over a month already and I still didn't receive it. I sent them two emails regarding my case but I didn't receive any answer. There is no valid phone number. Could you please help me, what should I do now?

Many thanks

I would contact the NCS and ask them if they have your certificate there; maybe the HO sent you the letter but it got lost; if the NCS has it, maybe they can send you an invitation letter or ask the HO to do it.

Good luck

D