Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

[englishlife]

10 years long residnace and 1 year ILR

Applied on 17 Apr though NCIS Hillingdon
Application sent on 19th Apr
Acknowledgment received 5 days later

Still waiting ..............

Sorry but it seems to be 10 years long residency+1 years ilr or spouse of british citizen including long residency in combined is taking more time. I have no clue why but I have seen other people in this forum who qualified for British citizen under both categories they are not getting any result from HO. But compare to fit in both categories one who fit into one categories is more quicker to get result. So you shouldn't worry hope you will get yours anyday now.

[United4life]

Eligibility criteria: 7years & 3months total stay (2 years spouse of Bc + 1 week ILR)
Method of application: Postal
Date of Application: 15 June 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 18 June 2013
Date of debit of fees: 20 June 2013
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 22 June 2013 (Dated 19 June 2013)
Date of receipt of approval: 03 July 2013 (Dated 01 July 2013)
Date of receipt of documents: 03 July 2013
Date of oath ceremony appointment: 05 August 2013
Date of receipt of citizenship certificate:

[harshil223]

--moving post under correct topic

Eligibility criteria: 5 (HSMP/Tier 1) + 1 (ILR)
Method of application: Postal
Date of Application: 14th May 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 15th May 2013
Date of debit of fees: 17th May 2013
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: N/A
Date of receipt of approval: 15th June 2013
Date of receipt of documents: 15th June 2013
Date of receipt of oath ceremony appointment: TBD
Date of receipt of citizenship certificate: TBD

Got all documents back along with approval letter except LiUK test pass certificate, not sure why it was not returned. Will send a mail to case worker for the same but don't think it will be required again.

[emontes]

Eligibility criteria: 5 years residence + 1 year ILR (EU Citizen)
Method of application: NCS Hammersmith and Fulham
Date of application: 07th June
Date of receipt by UKBA: 17th June
Date of debit of fees: 25th June
Date of acknowledgement: 19th June
Date on approval letter: 1st July
Date of receipt of approval: 04th July
Ceremony: 23rd July

I do appreciate the help. Even though I haven't asked any question, all the posts here helped a lot on my application. Thanks a lot.

[b52]

10 years long residnace and 1 year ILR

Applied on 17 Apr though NCIS Hillingdon
Application sent on 19th Apr
Acknowledgment received 5 days later

Still waiting ..............

[dukkumeah]

Application timeline

Eligibility criteria: Ex Family Member of EEA

Method of application: self prep/ postal

Date of application: 2nd May 13

Date of receipt by UKBA 3rd May 13

Date of debit of fees: 8 May 13


Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 13 May 13

Date of receipt of approval: 2ndJuly 2013

Date of Ceremony: to be arranged.....

[jahir123]

Eligibility criteria: 1 year work permit + 4 yrs Tier 1 + 1 yr ILR
Method of application: NCS Edinburgh
Date of application: 16 May 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA:
Date of acknowledgement: 28 May 2013
Date of debit of fees: 23 May 2013
Date on approval letter:05 June 2013
Date of receipt of approval:12 June 2013
Ceremony: 18 June 2013 (private £95)

[ikk1980]

Eligibility Criteria: Spouse British Citizen 2 Year + ILR 1 Year
Method Of Application: National Checking Service Manchester (£45.00)
Date Of Application: 13/03/2013
Date Of Receipt By UKBA: 14/03/2013 (Checked Online Royal Mail Tracking)
Date Of Debit Of Fees: 20/03/2013
Date Of Receipt Of Acknowledgement: 27/03/2013 (Letter Dated: 20/03/13)
Date Of Receipt Of Approval: TBC
Date Of Ceremony: TBC

I Can See That A Majority Of People Who Applied 2nd Week Or 3rd Week Of March 2013 Are Still Waiting For Approval.

Lets Hope For The Best.

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Who else is still waiting for approval from March???

[teawithlemon]

Timeline

[Peterpan81]

My timeline is not very different than yours.
Straight forward case of BC spouse with no niggles.

I emailed citizenship support and was surprised to receive a reply within hours. Which basically said that

"Your wife application has been received and waiting to be allocated to a case worker after necessary checks"

Not sure why it is taking that much of time have checks but it seems as there are some randomly selected cases who go through extended checks.

Which Email did you use, the same on the acknowl letter ?

[Sohail4peace]

Eligibility criteria : 3yr (2 Year Spouse visa 1yr ILR)
Method of application : NCS Wokingham
Date of application : 13 June 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA : 14 June 2013
Date of debit of fee :
Date acknowledged :
Date of approval :
Date of Ceremony

Good luck and thanks for this forum

[englishlife]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: (Long Residency 7yr + 13yr ILR)
Method of application: NCS (Royal Borough of Kenssington & Chelsea, £65)
Date of Application: 14th of May 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 15th of May 2013
Date of debit of fees:(BADLY HURTING MY POOR BANK ACCOUNT LOL) 20th of May 2013
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 23rd of May 2013
Date of approval: 5th of June 2013
Date of receipt of approval: 15th of June 2013
Date of Ceremony: To be confirmed


Congratulations another fine example of my method working....folks just to let you know that for straight forward applications 10th of May applicants onwards next week should be a week of jubilation! Englishlife you turn is next week l hope you don't make the same mistake and pay for your passport using a cheque

There is no niggles in ours, yet again its probably with a lazy case worker...or it hasnt been allocated yet, just had a crb check at work few weeks ago, even if they are concluding searches, or checks...ill keep
hoping for next week

Definately you should have got yours by now because it looks like they are now working on mid- May applications onwards....but as l said before every 1 in 100 Straight forward applications slips through the net here are the possible reasons why it could be delayed

1. application fell behind the desk while chatty case worker was busy doing small talk
2. Case worker is lazy or the other end of spectrum(perfectionist) very meticulous has to check every single detail to the point.
3. falling in two categories somewhat makes it complicated although it should be even very straight forward. ie IRL long residence(i) and spouse of BC(ii) might mean an inexperienced/incompetent case worker may have to process the application using two criteria (i)+(ii) yet only one is need....list is inexhaustible many other reasons you can think of can be added below

am afraid once your application falls out of the calculated method time of receipt then its down to pure luck .. ..eg.may be when the cleaners come along they will pick it from under the desk, or your case worker may get a telling off for gossiping instead of processing applications then picks up speed etc only then you will see your approval ...worst bit is you cant even ask or raise any alarms before 6 months have elapsed this was designed to cover for their shortcomings....lets hope next week you should see yours ...good luck!

People applied after me most of them got the approval. As you have mentioned when a case fall under both categories, under spouse and standard 5 years categories it takes ages for them to decide, I can see teawithlemon also waiting and applied in may before me but money was taken from his account on 9th but mine was taken 15th. I know another friend of mine she applied in march but qualified under both categories and she still waiting. But she used NCS, so I dont think I am going to get a result within next week. Maybe it is forbidden to qualify under both categories, I lost hope as I dont see any sign to get it early. Probably ukba doesn't like people who qualified under both categories. They never replied my email. So I am starting to think 4 months to 6 months. As thats why not coming into forum regularly. I should have applied under standard category and should say wife is not British then I could hear by this time now but now long time I have to wait. Anyways its luck. All I hope now is atleast they dont lose my original documents. 4.5 months to complete 6 months so then probably they will reply my email. Thanks and congrass everyone who got their approval

[Kennavarro]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: (Long Residency 7yr + 13yr ILR)
Method of application: NCS (Royal Borough of Kenssington & Chelsea, £65)
Date of Application: 14th of May 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 15th of May 2013
Date of debit of fees:(BADLY HURTING MY POOR BANK ACCOUNT LOL) 20th of May 2013
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 23rd of May 2013
Date of approval: 5th of June 2013
Date of receipt of approval: 15th of June 2013
Date of Ceremony: To be confirmed


Congratulations another fine example of my method working....folks just to let you know that for straight forward applications 10th of May applicants onwards next week should be a week of jubilation! Englishlife you turn is next week l hope you don't make the same mistake and pay for your passport using a cheque

There is no niggles in ours, yet again its probably with a lazy case worker...or it hasnt been allocated yet, just had a crb check at work few weeks ago, even if they are concluding searches, or checks...ill keep
hoping for next week

Definately you should have got yours by now because it looks like they are now working on mid- May applications onwards....but as l said before every 1 in 100 Straight forward applications slips through the net here are the possible reasons why it could be delayed

1. application fell behind the desk while chatty case worker was busy doing small talk
2. Case worker is lazy or the other end of spectrum(perfectionist) very meticulous has to check every single detail to the point.
3. falling in two categories somewhat makes it complicated although it should be even very straight forward. ie IRL long residence(i) and spouse of BC(ii) might mean an inexperienced/incompetent case worker may have to process the application using two criteria (i)+(ii) yet only one is need....list is inexhaustible many other reasons you can think of can be added below

am afraid once your application falls out of the calculated method time of receipt then its down to pure luck .. ..eg.may be when the cleaners come along they will pick it from under the desk, or your case worker may get a telling off for gossiping instead of processing applications then picks up speed etc only then you will see your approval ...worst bit is you cant even ask or raise any alarms before 6 months have elapsed this was designed to cover for their shortcomings....lets hope next week you should see yours ...good luck!

[ya75khan]

My timeline is not very different than yours.
Straight forward case of BC spouse with no niggles.

I emailed citizenship support and was surprised to receive a reply within hours. Which basically said that

"Your wife application has been received and waiting to be allocated to a case worker after necessary checks"

Not sure why it is taking that much of time have checks but it seems as there are some randomly selected cases who go through extended checks.

[Peterpan81]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: (Long Residency 7yr + 13yr ILR)
Method of application: NCS (Royal Borough of Kenssington & Chelsea, £65)
Date of Application: 14th of May 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 15th of May 2013
Date of debit of fees:(BADLY HURTING MY POOR BANK ACCOUNT LOL) 20th of May 2013
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 23rd of May 2013
Date of approval: 5th of June 2013
Date of receipt of approval: 15th of June 2013
Date of Ceremony: To be confirmed


Congratulations another fine example of my method working....folks just to let you know that for straight forward applications 10th of May applicants onwards next week should be a week of jubilation! Englishlife you turn is next week l hope you don't make the same mistake and pay for your passport using a cheque

There is no niggles in ours, yet again its probably with a lazy case worker...or it hasnt been allocated yet, just had a crb check at work few weeks ago, even if they are concluding searches, or checks...ill keep hoping for next week

[Kennavarro]

[quote="Blackman"]Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: (Long Residency 7yr + 13yr ILR)
Method of application: NCS (Royal Borough of Kenssington & Chelsea, £65)
Date of Application: 14th of May 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 15th of May 2013
Date of debit of fees:(BADLY HURTING MY POOR BANK ACCOUNT LOL) 20th of May 2013
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 23rd of May 2013
Date of approval: 5th of June 2013
Date of receipt of approval: 15th of June 2013
Date of Ceremony: To be confirmed


Congratulations another fine example of my method working....folks just to let you know that for straight forward applications 10th of May applicants onwards next week should be a week of jubilation! Englishlife you turn is next week l hope you don't make the same mistake and pay for your passport using a cheque

[Blackman]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: (Long Residency 7yr + 13yr ILR)
Method of application: NCS (Royal Borough of Kenssington & Chelsea, £65)
Date of Application: 14th of May 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 15th of May 2013
Date of debit of fees:(BADLY HURTING MY POOR BANK ACCOUNT LOL) 20th of May 2013
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 23rd of May 2013
Date of approval: 5th of June 2013
Date of receipt of approval: 15th of June 2013
Date of Ceremony: To be confirmed

Many thanks to all moderators and commentators to this great forum. I wish good luck to all those still waiting and to all other future candidate to the British citzenship. May God The Almighty grant you your citizenship in a concise and speedy way. And if there is a delay, please remain calm and positive, you will all get it. Have a blisful week end to everyone. Peace, love and positivity.

[macrowe]

My wife and step daughter submitted their applications at the same time as they both entered UK almost 9 years ago together when my step daughter was only 12 years old Their applications were dealt with as separate applications but went through the process together on following timelines.

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 8yr + 1yr ILR; spouse and step daughter of BC (me)
Method of application: NCS (Newcastle Upon Tyne) on 3/5
Date of receipt by UKBA: Due to Bank Holiday arrived at HO on 7/5
Date of debit of fees: 10/5
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: received on 17/5 dated 10/5
Date of receipt of approval: 15/6 letters dated 5/6
Date of Ceremony: TBC

Thanks everybody for the great information on these boards and good luck to all. See you on the passport page!!

[Dougslar]

Eligibility criteria : 2 year marriage visa, ILR, 3 years residence in the UK
Method of application : By post from Glasgow
Date of application : 10 June 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA : 11 June 2013
Date of debit of fee : 14 June 2013
Date acknowledged : 15 June 2013 (dated 13 June)
Date of approval : Still waiting
Date of Ceremony : Still waiting

[Azhaar]

Eligibility criteria : 5 years (Permanent non eea resident card) + 1 year
Method of application : NCS Croydon
Date of application : 3 June 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA : 5 June 2013
Date of debit of fee : 11 June 2013
Date acknowledged : 11/06/2013 received letter on 15/06/2013
Date of approval : Still waiting
Date of Ceremony : Still waiting

[Dougslar]

Eligibility criteria : 2 year marriage visa, ILR, 3 years residence in the UK
Method of application : By post from Glasgow
Date of application : 10 June 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA : 11 June 2013
Date of debit of fee : 14 June 2013
Date acknowledged : Still waiting
Date of approval : Still waiting
Date of Ceremony : Still waiting

[ekzecuive]

hi did you receive your invitation letter along with your approval?

I only got this letter which says the application is approved and to call the council which I did and have booked the ceremony for the 8 July 2013

Hope this helps

[hiralisha]

Eligibility criteria : 5 years Tier 1 (General) + 1 year ILR
Method of application : NCS Hatfield
Date of application : 26 March 2013
Date of debit of fee : 7 April 2013
Date acknowledged : NOT RECEIVED
Date of approval : 6 June 2013 (Received 14 June 2013)
Date of Ceremony : 8 July 2013 (public)

Note I didn't get any acknowledgement so if you are one of those people that haven't received this, then don't worry as long as the fee has been deducted then someone is looking into your application

Thanks to everyone on this forum

hi did you receive your invitation letter along with your approval?

[ssvgopal]

Eligibility criteria : 2 yrs HSMP + 3 years Tier 1 (General) + 1 year ILR
Method of application : NCS Hounslow
Date of application : 14 June 2013
Date of delivery:
Date of receipt by UKBA :
Date of debit of fee :
Date acknowledged :
Date of approval :
Date of Ceremony :

[ekzecuive]

Eligibility criteria : 5 years Tier 1 (General) + 1 year ILR
Method of application : NCS Hatfield
Date of application : 26 March 2013
Date of debit of fee : 7 April 2013
Date acknowledged : NOT RECEIVED
Date of approval : 6 June 2013 (Received 14 June 2013)
Date of Ceremony : 8 July 2013 (public)

Note I didn't get any acknowledgement so if you are one of those people that haven't received this, then don't worry as long as the fee has been deducted then someone is looking into your application

Thanks to everyone on this forum