Passport for: Adult Application Type: First Passport Method of application: Check and Send Date of application: 23 Dec 2011 Date application received by IPS: Unknown Date of return of documents: Documents not yet returned Date of receipt of interview letter: 6 Jan 2012, Dated 5 Jan 2012 Date of Pass...

Congratulations!

With the NCS, you have to sign a stat dec saying you will not travel in the next 5 business days.

27 Oct 2011, since they look back 5 years, not 6.

Eligibility criteria: WP + Highly Skilled + Tier 1 + ILR, 5 + 1 years NCS or Postal – NCS Date of submission or posting – Tue 16/08/2011 Date received by HO - Unknown Date of debit of debit/credit card – Unknown Date of receipt of acknowledgement – 30/08/2011 dated 29/08/2011 Date of receipt...

@shs213 Thanks for the reply, I'll have a read through that thread. One wonders if they have been instructed to go slow...

Good luck with your application too!

Does anybody know why it is taking so long all of a sudden? I have a friend that applied in January, and it only took two weeks to get the Citizenship approval. Now it is taking that long just to get an acknowledgement letter!

Eligibility criteria: WP + Highly Skilled + Tier 1 + ILR, 5 + 1 years NCS or Postal – NCS Date of submission or posting – Tue 16/08/2011 Date received by HO - Unknown Date of debit of debit/credit card – Unknown Date of receipt of acknowledgement – 30/08/2011 dated 25/08/2011 Date of receipt...

I submitted an application at the NCS recently, and at no time did I spot the Officer look at anything past page 1 of the application. In fact, they only used page 1 to copy one detail onto another form - my name I think. I had misconceptions about NCS - For some reason I thought they'd look at my a...

Keep in mind - you have to sign a Stat Dec confirming that you will not travel for 5 days after submitting the application at the NCS.

Just to jump in with my own experience with Check and Send for Naturalisation. I was in the North of England last week and tried to make an appointment to use a check and send service up there. However they refused to see me on the basis that I didn't have 5 years worth of P60's with me, or a letter...

Agreed, you haven't done anything wrong as yet - just explain your situation and they might hold your application for you.

After reading your story I'm going to lodge my application after I've finished traveling - I was going to travel exactly after 5 days but the risk doesn't seem worth it.

Thanks Vinny, I've handwritten the first page, the rest will be a spreadsheet printout.

I've started copying out my absences from my carefully prepared spreadsheet onto page 7 of form AN. I've got about 50 lines to write. I've handwritten 4 and have already made mistakes and it is taking ages. It isn't going to fit on page 7 & 13 combined. Do you think if I just gave a printout in a si...

Ok, thanks for this advice.

Cheers!

On Form AN, the citizenship application, 1.27 asks for "Your mother's full name & maiden name." Now in fact her surname is currently the same as it was when she was born. However she has changed her first name. Maiden name refers to family name only right? So I should just put a dash and repeat the ...

Thanks for your reply - I hope the Home Office sees it the same way you do!

I have a friend who has the title Director at Deutsche Bank.

I'm trying to figure out whether he would count as a referee who has a professional standing.

I'm surprised about this and glad I found out since I had been planning to go on a holiday immediately after applying. I had always understood that you had to be in the country exactly 5 years ago on the day that they received the application. This is the first time I've heard that you had to be in ...

Maybe it is time to get a solicitor involved? Employment law is a complicated area, and it may be that you are really an employee due to the manner in which you worked - i.e. showed up at the same place of work for 7 years in good faith. At any rate, if anybody does get in big trouble, I'd imagine i...

Note that when I tried this myself, I received all kinds of documents but not any information on dates in or out of the country. I didn't fill in many landing cards either, since when you use the IRIS system you don't fill out a landing card.

date in, date out and reason

I spent hours preparing an elaborate spreadsheet which included passport page of stamp and so on (235 days in total). They were not interested in this and only looked at the dates for long absences - they spent barely a minute doing this in total.

You only have to do one of them. The Life in the UK test also serves as being an English test.

I reckon apply for ILR in person and don't worry about it. To be honest, this is one of things I was vaguely worried about too. At one stage I was earning about 30% more than stated on my workpermit due to bonus, pay rises and overtime pay. The caseworker seemed to be more interested in the letter f...

You've given very little information about your situation. How many days do you have to play with? Did you enter / were present in the UK on the day your visa was valid from? If so you could apply in person up to 28 days early at a PEO. If you were rejected, you'd still have time to apply for an ext...