The Call Centre has no influence on the application so it will not speed up your application if you call. Thats correct. The guys who answer the phone probably work like a call centre, you call up they say NO, or if they are feeling generous will tap in your details and see what stage its at. And t...

Guys, what you do reckon about this website? workingmama i would like to pick your brain on this........ http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/ http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/naturalisation_application_statu#incoming-277526 There are loads of requests made to UKBA Freedom of Information Team and the...

Yes you can sponsor someone if your in a council house.
I reguarly supply letters to tenants who wish to do this. Just go to your local housing office and get them to confirm in a letter that you are the tenant and that they have no objection to you having someone come and stay.

No your not entitled to apply for council housing. I work for a local authority in Housing Management and I can confirm that unless you have access to public funds you will not be accepted onto the housing list. Its not easy to get council housing these days, rules have changed, the waiting time is ...

I really dont think they contact the refs in every application as they can see them from there passport number if provided The refs are supposed to know something about the applicant and if there was an issue with the case then one of the first things they should do while investigating would be to ...

To be honest I doubt my letter will make much difference. It needs for many people to complain for the powers that be to look at the service. However my letter is a start. Those that have waited a year should be contacting their MP and asking them to get involved. If your refs were never contacted t...

Well I just sent off a long email to the Minister of Immigration regarding issues I see with the application process. Some of the issues I raised were lack of transparency in the processing of applications. Those who applied much earlier are still waiting while those that applied months after are be...

Thanks, that's a bit unreliable, and no way of knowing if it's lost in the post, unless you call up the HO and find out And HO are very reluctant to divuldge anything, this is why the 6 month no information rule is a bad one especially as you pay for the processing service. Quite a few applicants d...

Generally you need to get any foreign document translated and then verified by the country you obtained the original from. An embassy from that country can do this I believe.

After you have paid it I would take your tenancy agreement and proof of rent paid down to the council and show them. You also need to have a word with your landlord and if you get nowhere, get some legal advice because basically your paying for your council tax twice because your landlord failed to ...

Non payment of council tax is not a criminal offence unless it goes so far that you get a prison sentence for refusal to pay and this only happens when the council and court have given you ample chance to amend the situation. Generally it may just affect your credit score. Rent generally never inclu...

Yes they just do once a month for some reason.
I believe the private one is around the £90 mark.

If anyone plans to do NCS via Brighton and Hove City Council they are not doing the NCS as the member of staff has left and they are awaiting a new staff member being trained up by UKBA.

For those that have problems with post or worry an approval has gone out and not arrived but are getting no joy getting answers from UKBA, then pop your local council citizenship department an email every few weeks or so and check up if they have recieved anything, citing post problems as the reason...

Maybe your attitude is the problem? they get calls all day long you have to make your call more interesting than the others Lol, no my attitude was ok, especially as I was talking to another government department from my work phone with my manager standing beside me. The woman at UKBA was really ni...

Mentioning I had a customer care award was meant as a sarcastic response to the comment about going for a blunt progress report. It was not meant to mean I know better than anyone.

You can get info out of them if you nice and ask the right questions going for a blunt progress update will get you no information Let me tell you, I have the Institute of Customer Service Award and know exactly how to request info. I was polite as pie and only asked for an update and yet still got...

Have called today to check the status of my application. The lady at the other end kindly refused because it is less than 6 months since I applied. I also called today to try to ask about my husbands application. I called 15 times, each time I spent at least 5 minutes on the phone as it rang and ra...

In December my husband applied for ILR due to marriage to me (born and bred British Citizen) and I thought I would share how I sorted out the documents needed for his appointment at Croydon. The guy that processed my husbands application was amazed how organised we were and it took very little time ...

I agree about probable understaffing, however I fail to see why that would affect things being done in date order. Take for example the department I work in which at times is terribly understaffed due to cut backs etc. Anything new in gets browsed through for something urgent that has to be dealt wi...

I am a British Citizen born and bred however my husband has applied for his naturalisation and I am actually quite amazed at the way they seem to process applications, it does not appear to be in a specific order such as being dealt with from date recieved. I also work for a government department so...