@Cullinan or @CR001 - are either of you able to shed any light on this, please ? I wonder if you could help, please ? I was approved for British Citizenship on 28 November 2021. I was then given three different deadlines by which to attend a ceremony 15 Feb (according to the council) ; 28 Feb (3 mon...

I wonder if you could help, please ? I was approved for British Citizenship on 28 November 2021. I was then given three different deadlines by which to attend a ceremony 15 Feb (according to the council) ; 28 Feb (3 months after the email) or 6 months as specified on the government website as of 28 ...

Hi Cullinan, Following your help (thank you very much indeed) we submitted the naturalisation form around 3 weeks ago and we now have the biometrics appointment at the end of next week. We have already uploaded all of our own documents and did NOT buy that service. With that in mind, what should we ...

Yes, that makes sense. Thank you. One last question for now, in terms of the passport photo, does it need to be an actual physical passport photo (from a booth or professionally taken) or will an electronic photo that meets the size and quality requirements be sufficient (that can be electronically ...

Thanks again.

Presumably then if there is ambiguity, not to mention the time lost in posting documents from overseas and the risk of them being lost, the strong advice would be to come up with two British referees ?

Is that a fair assumption ?

Thank you, Cullinan.

And for the avoidance of doubt, where the referee is overseas ... is it necessary to get a wet ink signature eg I have to post it to him and he has to post it back ? Or can he download it, sign it and scan a copy back to me ?

Hi Cullinan / CR001, Please could you answer a couple of questions regarding REFEREES for the naturalisation process ? I have found the following guidance, included in the online form : Referees must: • not be a relative, solicitor or agent of the applicant • not be related to the other referee • no...

CR001 and Cullinan thank you very much indeed for your input. Apologies that I originally posted my questions on the wrong board. I will read through the various links and come back to you if I have further questions. Thanks again.

@ Cullinan I hope you don’t mind but we have followed you here from the corresponding ILR SET(M) board. We received our SET(M) ILR yesterday. Thank you again for your help with ILR guidance. I think you are a couple of months ahead of us in this process and thought that after the excellent advice yo...

Applied for ILR Route : SET (M) Spouse - 5 Years route Date application sent : 09/09/2020 Approval/Refusal Received: 23/02/2021 - Approved What a relief ! Thank you to everyone here (especially Ameline and Cullinan). To me it has seemed for a few months now, that at the moment at least, SET(M) appli...

Applied for ILR Route : SET (M) Spouse - 5 Years route Date application sent : 09/09/2020 Documents Submitted Online: 18/09/2020 Date Biometrics Submitted via App (ONLY app / no appointment) : 18/09/2020 Approval/Refusal Received: 23/02/2021 - Approved BRP Card Received :Waiting What a relief ! Than...

Applied for ILR route: Set M Type of application: Standard Date application submitted: 04/09/2020 Payment debited: 04/09/2020 In-Person Biometrics: 12/09/2020 Decision letter received: 18/02/2021 3:45pm (approved) BRP card received: Waiting I’m released but as many of us disgusted and annoyed by th...

This is all a complete joke!! Behind every single application there is a life and a story. Why do we have to wait for 6 months like this and not being able to travel or even make any changes in our life as our BRP has expired. It is definitely a form of discrimination. We pay £2400+ for an applicat...

Thank you very much for your swift response. We will hold off writing to UKVI. Based on what you are seeing, do you have any idea what sort of timescales we might be looking at for ILR SET M ? @Ameline and @Ajitu92 are best placed to answer this. I have a whole dataset from this forum since the sta...

Thank you very much for your swift response.

We will hold off writing to UKVI.

Based on what you are seeing, do you have any idea what sort of timescales we might be looking at for ILR SET M ?

ILR SET M questions We registered / paid with UKVCAS in the second week of September 2020. We then received the invitation to use the IDV app on 17 September and submitted via the IDV app on 18 September. My current visa expires in less than 3 weeks. We have received no confirmation that UKVI have r...