BCMN1 wrote:Alhumdulillah, My application for Naturalisation has been successful.

Approval letter received today by Special Delivery dated: 30 April 2014.

Many many thanks for all the support. Specially from Amber....you are a star....

I am glad that your troubles are now over.

Application Timeline Passport for: Adult (First passport) Application Type: New Method of application: Self/ Postal Date of application:01/04/2014 Date application received by IPS:03/04/2014 Date of return of documents:24/04/2014 Date of receipt of interview letter:23/04/2014 Date of Passport Appoi...

My naturalization application has been successful, and now my wife should be able to apply as a suppose of British citizen since she has completed 3 years in the UK. She already has LITUK pass, and ILR since last April. I want her to apply immediately after my citizenship ceremony. Here is my questi...

Eligibility criteria : 10 years long stay + 9 months ILR due to Chapter 18 Annex B paragraph 7.5(g) of the BNA 1981 Method of application: NCS Date of application: 24-01-2014 Date of receipt by UKBA: 27-01-2014 Date of acknowledgement : 07-02-2014 Date of debit of fees: 05-02-2014 Date of approval:...

Hello member i have a question i applied on 05-02-2014 and i got my acknowledgment 12-02-2014 but i checked with my referees they said no one called him i hope u know so every cases home office they are checking with referees..... thanks My referees told me that no body has contacted them. So do no...

Eligibility criteria : 10 years long stay + 9 months ILR due to Chapter 18 Annex B paragraph 7.5(g) of the BNA 1981 Method of application: NCS Date of application: 24-01-2014 Date of receipt by UKBA: 27-01-2014 Date of acknowledgement : 07-02-2014 Date of debit of fees: 05-02-2014 Date of approval: ...

For your information, my 7.5(g) based application has also been approved. I think now there is enough success stories for everyone to use this option reasonably confidently (did I say confidently?!). Last year, my ILR application took 6 months and 25 days. So it was only protracted by 25 days. I enc...

You are welcome BCMN1. Best of luck @Ged and @BCMN1 for your applications. I wish your applications are approved ASAP. Just wanted to know did you guys wrote any cover letter specifically mentioning 7.5g clause, if yes, will you guys be kind enough to share with us so that it will help us as well. ...

Guys thanks for the update. I was going through timelines and I came across this, which I have copied and pasted below. It seems that 7.5g is a hit/miss case as with other things with UKVI. It depends on your luck/caseworker, I guess. Ged, have you already applied using 7.5g? Postby tchy » Wed Mar ...

I had Police caution in 2003 which I did mention in my application, always paid my taxes. Clean driving licence, no CCJ, no penalty ticket issues. I think you should calmly wait without getting paranoid. This must be what is causing the delay. Many people took their citizenship with spent convictio...

Date of Ack Letter: 19-12-2013 Date of Fee Debt: 19-12-2013 This does look annoying. Can you think of any reason why your "good character checks" would be difficult for them to resolve? Do you have any convictions? Did you have any issues with the taxman? Is there any anomaly in your application ot...

Hi Ged, One thing I came across and that lady told me yesterday that 'Nationality Character Checks' are done before its allocated to a case worker....!!!! If this is the case what does a caseworker do then? Rest is 2+2. I do not know. But one thing is consistent: once a caseworker is allocated, it ...

As far as I know, this is the common order of things; -They receive your application, -Someone vets it initially, -An acknowledgement letter is written, your case is assigned to a caseworker and the money gets taken (All in one step, this is a very important milestone) -You wait until a decision is ...

You should be able to have a chat with them when you call them for taking the appointment. When you call them, just ask them if they are aware of the issue of the point based calculator.

This is not what you asked but here is a fact from 2009;

"2.4% NCS applications refused compared to 12.2% where an agent (eg. Solicitor) has been used and 11.6% where no representation used"

Source: LRSA Citizenship and NCS Conference London 27th November 2009

You should be ok. Thanks for that and I hope so it goes ok. The reason I am a bit concerned is that the women said I will write what the guy from the HO said on this form - basically that my application will be refused by the HO adviser and I still went against his advice. I felt a bit like who the...

Dear members; I have sent an email to the NationalityEnquiries@ukba.gsi.gov.uk After a number of useless copy paste answers which do not answer a single question, thankfully, the following answer also came from a different address; It is not the strongest confirmation in the world, but this is the r...

I find this very unsatisfactory as regards what UKBA is doing here. I think the wording of 7.5.g is pretty clear and if they really do not mean to have a reference to 15 months in that, but instead really mean to have a reference to 18 months, then they really do need to change the guidance they gi...

Dear Amber, We will know more when we start seeing some resolved cases. In the mean time, it is only natural to assume protracted means prolonged. There is no evidence or substantial reason to assume it any other way due to some people second guessing UK law. However we do have freedom of informatio...

The UK immigration law does not need to define what protracted means, as there are dictionaries for that. Protracted means prolonged. There is nothing to it. Check any dictionary. "Discretion to disregard immigration time restrictions in the final 12 months may normally be exercised if:...considerat...

There is a lot of scaremongering going on under this discussion as we do not really know what will happen with BCMN1's application (and 01yoseph' application too). Therefore it is too early to speak. I personally intend to apply as soon as my 15 months is up as it was not my fault that they wasted 8...

Why are people being advised to wait. Is there an example or previous unsuccessful application? The regulation is obvious isn't it?

Yes the data on the internet talks about spent convictions or released criminals, rather than immigrants. When I get my passport I will make the attempt to get this information deleted. This really bothers me a lot. In the meantime if anyone tries something similar, please write it here. It would be...

Thanks neoseal,
This looks like a very helpful answer,
Regards,
Ged

Thanks for reading; Recently I returned from our summer holidays with my wife using our indefinete leave to remain biometric cards for the first time. As you can imagine our fingerprints were scanned and we were let in afterwards. The lady from the border force was very polite but I find the whole f...