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Processing times - Non-acquisition of British Citizenship
Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2012 9:48 am
by cuberoot
Before I apply for British Citizenship, I would like to apply for retention of my existing citizenship. As part of this, I need proof of non-acquisition of British Citizenship.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/briti ... t-british/
Is anybody familiar with this process? I have completed the forms and payments slips, but have not received a response yet and they have not taken payment. The application form says that the application should take 10 working days. It has been over 15 working days now. I have tried to call them to confirm they have my application, but cannot get through to a human.
Anybody have any suggestions?
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 4:26 pm
by cuberoot
Has anybody on the forum got experience with this? I would love some information.
Re: Processing times - Non-acquisition of British Citizenshi
Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:54 pm
by barnaby
cuberoot wrote:Before I apply for British Citizenship, I would like to apply for retention of my existing citizenship. As part of this, I need proof of non-acquisition of British Citizenship.
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/briti ... t-british/
Is anybody familiar with this process? I have completed the forms and payments slips, but have not received a response yet and they have not taken payment. The application form says that the application should take 10 working days. It has been over 15 working days now. I have tried to call them to confirm they have my application, but cannot get through to a human.
Anybody have any suggestions?
My wife did this in 2010, to renew her passport. I can't remember the dates but I remember it was pretty fast.
Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 5:14 pm
by cuberoot
Ok, thanks for the information. I think my application may have been lost in the mail then.
I will resend it, this time with recorded delivery, so that I can stop worrying if they are processing it or not.
I should have known, *always* use recorded delivery when dealing with immigration.
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 5:59 pm
by neo
Hi cuberoot, I guess you have received the reply for the first one and not yet the second. I think it was not letter missing just they are too slow.
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:25 pm
by kelkykenny
we did ours before applying for our BC. we applied in the june and only got it towards the end of July....it took a lot longer than the time frames they quoted!