Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

[rd22]

Eligibility criteria: 3 year Spouse of a BC
Method of application: NCS - Newcastle Upon Tyne
Date of application: 29.11.13
Payment method: DC
Date of receipt by UKBA: ?
Date of acknowledgement: 21/01/2014 (dated 16/01/2014)
Date of debit or clearance of fees: Card Declined!
Date approval received:
Date of ceremony:

I am extremely annoyed as I have triple checked the card number, expiry date etc. and my wife scrutinised everything before the final submission. I have got enough money to cover the fees since November and my bank was already informed that a huge amount could be request within next two months by the Home Office…so why it was DECLINED???

Has anyone been in this situation before? Where should I re-send my payment details to as the letter is not very clear! Can I send a letter asking them to make up the time lost as it's most probably a fault on their part. Now I have to spend money for another recorded delivery, not that it will break my bank but I have done everything by the book and this sort of negligence really makes me to question their level of professionalism.

[MattSule]

Thanks Mowaid,
When were you convicted in court? If it's more than 3yrs ago that could explain why it was ignored...

[mowaid]

It was dealt in court and court issued me 400£ fine as well and the points are still on my DVLA, also had CCJ on me nothing effected my case other thing national help desk is 100% useless I received my approval today morning and I got email reply today at 4PM which I sent to national help desk on friday still says following
"
Thank you for your email.

I have checked our records and can confirm that no decision has yet been made on your application.
"

they are useless...

[MattSule]

Congratulations mowaid,
It would have been more helpful if you had said your driving offences were not dealt with in a court.

Any driving offence sentence/point issued by a court is regarded as a conviction and thus must be declared.

[mowaid]

I got good news today got my document saying my application is approved and will receive confirmation later shortly

Eligibility criteria: 3 YEAR HSMP + 2 YEAR TIER 1 + 1.5 YEAR ILR
Method of application: ROYALMAIL SP DELIVERY SELF
Date of application: 12/10/13
Date of receipt by UKBA: 15/10/13
Date of aknowlegment: 06/11/13 recieved on 09/11/13
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 02/11/13
Date approval received: Today 21/01/2014
Date of ceremony: waiting for

I thank you all of you who shared there experience here, I also want to share that don't worry too much I had some issues which I was worried like I had driving offence 6 points on my licence , no insurance and without proper driving licence I forget to mentioned it in my application and it all went fine so don't worry too much it take maximum 2 to 5 months in my case it took only 3 month and 7 days

thank you

[Mbm1022]

Eligibility criteria: hsmp+Tier1+ILR
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Ealing
Date of application: 23/11/13
Date of receipt by UKBA: 26/11/13
Date of aknowlegment: 15/1/14 recieved on 17/1/14
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 16/1/14
Date approval received: Not yet
Date of ceremony: Not yet

[p2kin]

p2kin's detailed views for October and November to come.

Here are October-2013 & November-2013 views.

[vijayefi]

Update:
Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: (2yrs(HSMP) + 3yrs(Tier1) + 1 yr ILR; + 1 Child

Method of application: NCS (Hounslow-London)
Date Applied: 29-Nov-2103
Date of receipt by UKBA: 02-Dec-2013
Date of debit of fees: 17-Jan-2014
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 20-Jan-2014
Date of receipt of approval: Waiting
Date of Ceremony:Waiting


[quote="vijayefi"]Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: (2yrs(HSMP) + 3yrs(Tier1) + 1 yr ILR; + 1 Child

Method of application: NCS (Hounslow-London)
Date Applied: 29-Nov-2103
Date of receipt by UKBA: 02-Dec-2013
Date of debit of fees: 17-Jan-2014
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 20-Jan-2014
Date of receipt of approval: Waiting
Date of Ceremony:Waiting


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[jotter]

APPs = Applications that I have found in this forum thus far.
APPROVED = Percentage of these applications that posters have informed us have been approved (rounded to nearest full percent)

WEEK APPS (APPROVED)
Aug 26-Sept 1 = 19 (89%)
Sept 2-8 = 24 (83%)
Sept 9-15 = 19 (95%)
Sept 16-22 = 22 (100%)
Sept 23-29 = 23 (83%)

Sept 30-Oct 6 = 40 (85%)
Oct 7-13 = 62 (79%)
Oct 14-20 = 54 (85%)
Oct 21-27 = 109 (46%)

Oct 28-Nov 3 = 16 (13%)
Nov 4-10 = 25 (4%)
Nov 11-17 = 17 (0%)
Nov 18-24 = 18 (0%)

p2kin's detailed views for October and November to come.

[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