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British Citizenship Granted After Almost 3 Years of Wait!

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British Citizenship Granted After Almost 3 Years of Wait!

Post by yurym » Wed Jul 31, 2024 1:37 pm

Not sure if I am supposed to start a new topic for this or just post in some other thread.

Me and my wife applied for naturalisation in November 2021.We have gone through Tier 1 entrepreneurial route and after 5 years applied and received our ILRs within a few months, without any problems. Then after a year we applied for our naturalisation documents. We thought it would be a straight forward procedure but we had to wait for almost 3 YEARS!!!

In the meantime we:

- Wrote general emails to HO every 2-3 months after first 6 months of the application
- Wrote a comprehensive email to HO explaining our situation in detail
- Asked 2 MPs (we moved areas during the wait) to write to HO
- Asked lawyers to write a complaint letter
- In the last three months we asked lawyers to send a pre-action letter threatening legal action

The response was always the same. "External checks are being carried out and no decision has been made yet. Naturalisation process is not automatic.bla bla bla"

We received our invitation to ceremony about 2 weeks ago!

I honestly don't know what helped and if it helped, but just writing for those of you who are in a similar situation, because this forum helped me a lot. Don't give up hope! It's frustrating, confusing and upsetting but it will most probably be alright in the end.

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Re: British Citizenship Granted After Almost 3 Years of Wait!

Post by Dancull » Wed Jul 31, 2024 2:01 pm

Congrats, 3 years is a very long process time!

Have you requested SAR to identify the blockage?

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Re: British Citizenship Granted After Almost 3 Years of Wait!

Post by contorted_svy » Wed Jul 31, 2024 4:50 pm

Congratulations, and well done for persevering.
All advice comes from personal research and experience and should not be regarded as professional opinion.

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Re: British Citizenship Granted After Almost 3 Years of Wait!

Post by yurym » Mon Aug 05, 2024 6:08 pm

Dancull wrote:
Wed Jul 31, 2024 2:01 pm
Congrats, 3 years is a very long process time!

Have you requested SAR to identify the blockage?
I don't remember think I did. I think my lawyers said that it is not useful since HO already replied with the "reason" why they are stalling.

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Re: British Citizenship Granted After Almost 3 Years of Wait!

Post by yurym » Mon Aug 05, 2024 6:09 pm

contorted_svy wrote:
Wed Jul 31, 2024 4:50 pm
Congratulations, and well done for persevering.
Thank you so much!

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Re: British Citizenship Granted After Almost 3 Years of Wait!

Post by Dancull » Tue Aug 06, 2024 8:47 am

yurym wrote:
Mon Aug 05, 2024 6:08 pm
Dancull wrote:
Wed Jul 31, 2024 2:01 pm
Congrats, 3 years is a very long process time!

Have you requested SAR to identify the blockage?
I don't remember think I did. I think my lawyers said that it is not useful since HO already replied with the "reason" why they are stalling.
Thank you for the reply!

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