Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

[maxwins]

Hi all, Here is my timeline.

Eligibility criteria......................... Spouse of a BC + 1 year of ILR
Language criteria met....................B1 Certificate, currently a final year Law student
Current nationality........................Common wealth country
Method of application.................... Form AN
Council name if NCS used.................NCS Tower Hamlets
Date of application........................25/11/2013
Payment method CC/DC..................Bank Card
Date of receipt by UKBA................ .26/11/2013
Date of acknowledgement................15/01/2014 (Received on 17/01/2014)
Date of debit or clearance of fees.......15/01/2014
Date approval received:................... waiting
Date of ceremony: ........................ Eagerly Waiting

[tier_2_applicant]

My analysis for applications during Nov and Dec:

Total applications: 142 (including MN1 registrations)
Fee taken: 87 (61.27%)
Acknowledgement received: 31 (21.83%)
Approved: 1 (0.70%)

Minimum number of days, average number of days and maximum number of days are as follow:
Days to clear fees: 35, 57, 73
Days to receive acknowledgment: 50, 64, 75
Days to receive approval: 72 (as there has been only one approval)

[jay00uk]

Eligibility criteria: 3 year Spouse of a BC
Language criteria met :UK degree,
Current nationality: Turkish
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Exeter City
Date of application: 12.12.13
Payment method CC/DC
Date of receipt by UKBA: 13.12.13
Date of acknowledgement:24.01.14
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 20.01.14( just saw this morning my acc balance dropped by £874)
Date approval received:
Date of ceremony:

[chiefhunter]

Folks so i have graduated from the school of waiting to get broke, 874 GBP wiped off my national treasures on 17/01/2014. NB i got confirmation from the Bank via internet banking secured email before the transaction appeared on my statement today.

Now for the real deal, fingers crossed

Eligibility Criteria: 5 YRS plus 1 YR ILR
Method of Application: NCS Camden - 29 November 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA - 02 December 2013
Date of debit of fees: 17/01/2014
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: Pending
Date of receipt of approval: Pending
Date of Ceremony: Pending

CH

[TTOE]

To all those who applied in December, you should be expecting to have your fees taken from your account any time from now. How do I know? Today, I tried to log into my Barclays online account with the intention to transfer money to someone. After several failed attempts, I decided to phone my bank, and it did happen that they had frozen my card and could not use it. I asked why, and was told that there was an unusual attempt to make a huge payment of £874 to NCS on Friday, and that payment did not go through. I have never been so annoyed in my life. Anyway, to cut the long story short, I made my application on the 17th December 2013, and was not expecting money to be taken from my account until February. Will call and make payment via phone tomorrow. It looks like things are moving:)

Hi Fred2141, please can you post your full timeline as per the template below to the December 2013 Nat timeline tracker?

Many thanks!

Eligibility criteria:
Language criteria met (UK degree, exempt countries, PBS used documents, NARIC, or B1 test):
Current nationality:
Method of application:
Council name if NCS used:
Date of application:
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc:
Date of receipt by UKBA:
Date of aknowlegment:
Date of debit or clearance of fees:
Date approval received:
Date of ceremony:

[Fred2141]

To all those who applied in December, you should be expecting to have your fees taken from your account any time from now. How do I know? Today, I tried to log into my Barclays online account with the intention to transfer money to someone. After several failed attempts, I decided to phone my bank, and it did happen that they had frozen my card and could not use it. I asked why, and was told that there was an unusual attempt to make a huge payment of £874 to NCS on Friday, and that payment did not go through. I have never been so annoyed in my life. Anyway, to cut the long story short, I made my application on the 17th December 2013, and was not expecting money to be taken from my account until February. Will call and make payment via phone tomorrow. It looks like things are moving:)

[aleuk]

Eligibility Criteria: Spouse of British Citizen + 2yrs+1year ILR
Method of Application: NCS (Cambridge)

Date of Application: 05/11/2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: Never heard from them..???
Date of Debit of Fees: 10/01/2014

Date of Receipt of Acknowledgement: Waiting
Date of Receipt of Approval: Waiting
Date of Ceremony: Waiting

[londonboulevard]

Eligibility criteria: 5 years + ILR
Nationality: Montenegro
Method of application: NCS Hounslow
Date of application: 31/10/2013
Date of receipt by UKBA : 02/11/2013
Date of debit of fees: 09/01/2014
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 15/01/2014 (dated 09/01/14)
Date of receipt of approval: none
Date of ceremony : none

[consciousness]

Eligibility criteria: EEA national, 5+1 years exercising treaty rights, no PR card
Application type: joint
Method of application: NCS Lanark (appointment 14/10/2013)
Date of application: Sent 22/10/2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 23/10/2013 (Royal mail tracking)
Date of debit of fees: 29/11/2013, letter dated 28/11/2013
Date of acknowledgement: 03/12/2013
Date of approval: TBC
Date of Ceremony: TBC

5 weeks waiting for the fees. Only two more dates to be filled in. I think there is no hope for the documents processing and decision making before the holidays.

Eligibility criteria: EEA national, 5+1 years exercising treaty rights, no PR card
Application type: joint
Method of application: NCS Lanark (appointment 14/10/2013)
Date of application: Sent 22/10/2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 23/10/2013 (Royal mail tracking)
Date of debit of fees: 29/11/2013, letter dated 28/11/2013
Date of acknowledgement: 03/12/2013
Date of approval received: 18/01/2014 (dated: 10/01/2014)
Date of Ceremony: TBC

Finally the wait is over...feel so relieved. Only the ceremony left to be arranged, which will be on Monday.
Good luck to all still waiting!!!

Interim:
11/02/2012 Email received- still under consideration;
17/01/2012 Called HO yesterday and was told the applications are under consideration.
Both responses fall under the decision taken, however there was the usual answer. Do not rely on these responses.

[kvg1922]

Eligibility criteria: Work Permit + Tier-1 + ILR (12months)
Method of application: NCS Oxford
Date of Application: 02/12/2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 03/12/2013
Date of debit of fees: 16/01/2014
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 20/01/2014
Date of receipt of approval: waiting
Date of Ceremony: waiting

[qaws_14]

Hi ALL,

This is not the section to conduct Q & A.

Take it to the relevant sections and leave this for just the TIMELINES as it should be.

[Loveislovely]

Hi all,
A quick question regarding the approval letter..

I know that everyone has been saying that the approval will come in a brown envelope. In my case, I have sent a self-addressed special delivery envelope for safe returning of my original passports, driving license etc., so will these be sent separately in the special delivery envelope whilst the approval comes in a brown envelope? or will they come together?

i have tracked the special delivery envelope but there are no signs of them despatching it yet...

Cheers,
km

KM,

You should receive everything in the silver envelope. I also sent a prepaid envelope and receive approval with all my documents, except my life in the uk certificate. I am now waiting to collect my citizen certificate on the 31/1/2014.
Good luck

Loveislovely

[theolondon]

Never felt this happy about my bank account balance going down, and especially when the benefactor was registered as - NATIONALITY, DIRECTORAT, LIVERPOOL GB.

Eligibility criteria: Work Permit + Tier-1 + ILR
Method of application: NCS Westminster
Date of Application: 02/12/2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 03/12/2013
Date of debit of fees: 16/01/2014
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: Waiting
Date of receipt of approval: waiting
Date of Ceremony: waiting

[km25]

thanks fm1011, that's very helpful. no sign of special delivery and will have to wait until next week now..i can see that other applicants of 25th October are getting their approvals now, so hopefully, it shouldnt be too long!

[fm1011]

km25 if you send your own envolope then u will get it in the same envolope which you sent them


i send them a specail delivery envolope so they send it the same one....i think brown envolope is for those who do not send a envolope to the Ho

[km25]

Hi all,
A quick question regarding the approval letter..

I know that everyone has been saying that the approval will come in a brown envelope. In my case, I have sent a self-addressed special delivery envelope for safe returning of my original passports, driving license etc., so will these be sent separately in the special delivery envelope whilst the approval comes in a brown envelope? or will they come together?

i have tracked the special delivery envelope but there are no signs of them despatching it yet...

Cheers,
km

[TTOE]

Joint application with spouse submitted through NCS 22/11/2013
Acknowledgement of application and fee £1550 taken 16/01/2014

What date is on the acknowledgement letter?

[kahn]

Joint application with spouse submitted through NCS 22/11/2013
Acknowledgement of application and fee £1550 taken 16/01/2014

[TTOE]

WELL DONE ALPHA_MAN218, APPARENTLY MY COUNCIL TOLD ME SO MANY PEOPLE WITHIN MY BOROUGH APPLIED FOR BRITISH CITIZENSHIP HENCE WHY MY CEREMONY IS IN MARCH BUT AM REALLY THINKING ABOUT A PRIVATE CEREMONY.

@ Apple02, If no travel plans for now, just wait, if you are definitely due to travel soon, go for it (its not money wasted).

[apple02]

WELL DONE ALPHA_MAN218, APPARENTLY MY COUNCIL TOLD ME SO MANY PEOPLE WITHIN MY BOROUGH APPLIED FOR BRITISH CITIZENSHIP HENCE WHY MY CEREMONY IS IN MARCH BUT AM REALLY THINKING ABOUT A PRIVATE CEREMONY.

[Alpha_man218]

Anyone with 24th October 2013 application date care to share their experince on the timelines?

Eligibility criteria: British Citizen Spouse + 2 yrs ILR
Method of application: Nationality Checking Service (NCS) Swindon
Date of Application: 24/10/2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 25/10/2013
Date of debit of fees: 18th December 2013
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: Waiting
Date of receipt of approval: waiting
Date of Ceremony: waiting

If I'm not wrong, I think I've sighted 1 or 2 approvals for 24/10 but none for application received by the HO on 25/10.

Yes am one of the approvals for the 24/10. I sent mines on the 23/10 and HO received it on the 24/10 and I got the approval 11/1/14
dated 8/1/14. I wonder who is the other one because I cant find it

I'm the other one! My application was sent on 23/10 received by HO on 24/10, acknowledged on 13/12, approved on 10/01 and ceremony on 05/02.

[meemyself&I]

My husband's application has been approved, his timeline is as follows:

eligibility criteria: 10 years long residence & 1 yr ILR
Date application sent: 14 October 2013 (Self - no NCS)
Received: 15 October 2013
Fee debited: 9 November 2013
Acknowledgement letter: 11 November 2013
Application Approved: dated 16 January 2014, received 17 January 2014
Ceremony date: awaiting letter

PS - I could not edit previous posts but got these dates roughly from the top of my head, only debit of fees or acknowledgement letter might differ slightly by a day or so.

Thanks to this forum for all your help and good luck to all those waiting.

[TTOE]

Again the general assumption is to wait for them to contact you and then take it from there, expect your acknowledgement which should come through within the next few days, then call on any number provided on the letter quoting your reference number, this I think is neater......my thought, lets hope Amber picks this up..Amber, whats your thought wrt underpayment, HO error?

[willbebritish80]

[quote="TTOE"][quote="ah_kassem"][quote="TTOE"][quote="willbebritish80"]Eligibility criteria: 5 years work Permit + 1 Year ILR

Method of application: NCS Tunbridge wells

Date of Application: 19/11/2013

Date of receipt by UKBA: 25/11/2013 (Royal Mail Tracking)

Date of debit of fees: 17/01/2013 (£784 is that a mistake at their end?)

Date of receipt of acknowledgement: waiting

Date of receipt of approval:

Date of Ceremony:

i guess they made a mistake while requesting the payment which will cause further delays on my application ( i Hope not)[/quote]

Human error that! Or discount for the delay in processing your application [/quote]

Call them and tell them that to avoid delay[/quote]

True, please give them a call and ask how you can top up, that on the good side might speed up your approval as well...[/quote]

what number should i call? or send them an e-mail?

[TTOE]

Eligibility criteria: 5 years work Permit + 1 Year ILR

Method of application: NCS Tunbridge wells

Date of Application: 19/11/2013

Date of receipt by UKBA: 25/11/2013 (Royal Mail Tracking)

Date of debit of fees: 17/01/2013 (£784 is that a mistake at their end?)

Date of receipt of acknowledgement: waiting

Date of receipt of approval:

Date of Ceremony:

i guess they made a mistake while requesting the payment which will cause further delays on my application ( i Hope not)

Human error that! Or discount for the delay in processing your application

Call them and tell them that to avoid delay

True, please give them a call and ask how you can top up, that on the good side might speed up your approval as well...