FINAL UPDATE Eligibility criteria: 5 years Tier 2 + 1 year ILR Language Criteria: sat Trinity again for ILR (my Tier 2 test was not in the approved list anymore) Nationality : Russia Method of application: NCS + JCAP, Camden council Date of application: 09/01/2018 Payment method: Debit card Date of...

Saga finally over, got my passport yesterday. The only thing that helped was calling the council and convincing them to re-send the ceremony information. HMPO then contacted me about issuing the passport immediately. Before that, calling HMPO by itself did NOT help. Apparently they are not able to c...

So, they promised to call me back and failed.

"Summer is approaching, everybody on the processing team is extremely busy".

I don't really understand why HMPO has so many people answering phones if they do not actually have access to any information, but it appears to be the case.

Sigh.

Called HMPO a few more times, raised as much hell as possible. "Your case is being looked at". Note: if they promise to "call you back", be aware that the timeline for the callback is "up to 24 hours". Sigh. At least I made sure they have my number (which was not obvious from before, because they ha...

Meanwhile, got a reply to my email to FMT:

"Thank you for your e-mail. It may take in excess of 21 working days to be auctioned."

Umm that's an unexpected use of the word "auction"... I don't really understand what exactly they mean here.

Called the HMPO helpline in the morning.
First the regular bs about "up to 20 working days", but then the lady took interest, asked if I have any travel plans and said "the only thing I can do is to send an email to the examiner to look into it, please call later today around 5-7 pm".
Oh yes I will.

(by going yolo I actually mean going for a travel and leaving the UK)

Eligibility criteria: 5 years Tier 2 + 1 year ILR Language Criteria: sat Trinity again for ILR (my Tier 2 test was not in the approved list anymore) Nationality : Russia Method of application: NCS + JCAP, Camden council Date of application: 09/01/2018 Payment method: Debit card Date of acknowledgeme...

I'm now a freshly minted Brit, having applied back in January (JCAP, Camden Council) and attended the ceremony on 19th April (Barnet Council / Hendon Town Hall). It's been 12 days since then, and I started to worry about my passport - first, most of the people seem to get them within 6-8 days, secon...