just had one of those tongue in a cheek moment and rang local office where ceremonies take place - they have started to recognise me!! Lady said, Mr Patel nothing for you I am affraid - Damn it, I need to stop

Ironmaiden any luck today ? There is an unfortunate brake applied on March first week applicants - there is literally no one I know of (on this forum and otherwise) who have applied beginning of March (1-10 March) who have received approval - P£$$ taking!! For some reason I like your signature line...

tulip11 wrote:Ironmaiden any luck today ?

There is an unfortunate brake applied on March first week applicants - there is literally no one I know of (on this forum and otherwise) who have applied beginning of March (1-10 March) who have received approval - P£$$ taking!!

nothing for me today unfortunately.. at least I am no longer sitting home waiting for Royal Man to come and go without anything useful

All the best to everyone. Tulip - I do hope you get yours soon, hate to see people suffering over this agonising wait!!

Dal wrote:Hi all,

Yesterday the post came e dropped a
Brown envelope. When I saw it on the floor I was
so excited to pick it up, but unfortunately it wasn't from
HO,was from Revenue Tax Credit. ;( ;(

Dal.

Ditto!!!

tulip11 wrote:Let me trust you ironmaiden

Amen

ironmaiden wrote:
Trust me guys, we will get those famous brown envelopes within this month!

Is that your 190th sense ??

Majority of applicants who applied in the first two weeks of March and specially those who applied in first week are still waiting , just few of them got their approvals. The 2nd half of March are getting their approvals fastly as compared to first half . I think the last week of Feb with the first...

Another 3 March applicant still waiting

Congratulations mate!

JamesBrodie wrote:I got it! I got it!

Congratulations on your new car

Yes tulip, unfortunately... I phoned my local council today to see if they got anything as I did not get any post this week. The lady on the phone said they received few approvals this morning and checked if my name was there but unfortunately... :( Anyway it looks like they working well on March a...

Elections won't make any difference to the application timeline as the staff from the passport office or from UKVI has not got anything to do with voting count. As far as security is concerned their are other measures taken during the elections by central board of intelligence and local police. I m...

tulip11 wrote:

IraMil357 wrote:

I am still waiting for my approval letter.

That makes two of us mate - I think, it is time we quit this game and accept that this will be a long wait unfortunately esp with elections around

IraMil357 wrote:

tulip11 wrote:

IraMil357 wrote: I am still waiting for my approval letter.

You will get it Tulip. Next week should be good one and no more bank holidays till August!

You must hate holidays :p There's one on 25th May lol

janto wrote:Just had a white envelope through the door - the council seem to think my application has been approved! Still have to wait for the brown envelope before I can book my ceremony. Hope you all will follow soon!

Whoop!! congratulations mate

This is very interesting! - I applied in March through NCS and had 3 points on my license from Dec 2008 and I was asked not to include it. If I remember correctly, advice I got was (and I quote) - "do not complicate your case by submitting information that is not required!" Makes me worried a tick n...

Just get back from my sunny holidays but no brown envelope yet for me!!

IMHO, while I appreciate your genuine reasons and respect so, it may be a no go from HO' perspective. Sorry if this disappoints

tulip11 wrote:Nothing good so far

I think you (and I for that matter) need to quit this forum until the day one get that brown thingy

jaweb wrote:Don't worry! You are not alone! Here either!
Enjoy your weekend

Or whatever's left of the weekend

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Brown envelope here too, shame it's from HMRC though

Congratulations!

And and and and and and and and and nothing new :P Why you guys dont even send a special delivery envelope to home office which they will use to send your approval letter. And just check online in the evening instead waiting for the whole day for the post man. Clever idea - too late to do anything ...

UPDATE ! Police just visited me and asked me for my details and ID Card from Back home. I gave them my passport and they took every single dot out of it! They had to fill International Criminal Conviction Exchange form which was full of entries including my parents names and their place/ date of bi...