Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

[teawithlemon]

Goodluck

[Astrid24]

@teawithlemon

I don't understand all that! Lol.

The documents they asked for were any passport or travel documents from between the 27/02/12 - 12/04/13 but I haven't travelled abroad at all, never been out of the UK since I came here when I was 4, so I don't have any travel documents, so my other options were to send things that prove I was in the UK between those two dates.

So they wanted things like pay slips, p60 certificates, that NI tax thing, and so on if I am employed. I am employed part time so I sent those off. Or if I'm a student they wanted letters from my university that confirm my enrollment and attendance between those two dates. I'm a student so I sent them those too, even though I didn't need to as I was covered with all my employment documents. I just wanted to make sure I sent the correct things.

[teawithlemon]

Eligibility criteria: I don't know but I've had ILR since I was 16 & I'm now 24
Method of application: Postal (SD + Prepaid SD)
Date of application: 11/04/13
Date of receipt by UKBA: 12/04/13
Date of debit of fees: 19/04/13
Date of acknowledgement : 19/04/13 (received on the 27th)
Return of documents: 22/05/13 (received on 24/05/13)
Date of approval:
Date of invitation letter :
Date of Ceremony:

Ok, here's what happened with my application. On Friday (24/05/13) I received a letter from UKBA (dated 22/05/13) saying they need proof of my residence from the 27/02/12 - 12/04/13.

This is because my non British passport expired on the 27/02/12 and my application was received by them on the 12/04/13 so they needed me to account for the time period my passport was expired for.

No problem, I sent them all the documents they requested. They also sent back my documents they didn't need anymore, like the expired passport and my driving license so I've got those back.

I sent the documents they needed immediately back to them on Friday, (24/05/13) in an envelope they provided that had a reference and department number on it, by SD and also put another prepaid SD envelope in there. Now, because of the weekend and bank holiday they won't get it till Tuesday.

My question is, do you think that after they receive these documents I will get my approval quickly?

Because I think they are very nearly finished with my application, and if there wasn't the issue with the expired passport it would have probably been the approval letter I received on Friday! Ugh! So annoying! I was so excited when the postman came and I saw he had my prepaid self addressed envelope, only to find it wasn't the approval letter!

So basically, how fast do you think I will be receiving my approval letter? End of next week?

I know that no one knows and it's all just guesswork but I just want some reassurance. Lol.

Good Luck of your Success

[Plum70]

My question is, do you think that after they receive these documents I will get my approval quickly?

I know that no one knows and it's all just guesswork but I just want some reassurance. Lol.

If you find guess work reassuring then perhaps you may receive your approval sometime soon, judging by average 2013 timelines.

But I'll leave it to the great mathematician in this forum to formulate a more 'realistic' date.

Enjoy your ceremony when it comes.

[Astrid24]

Eligibility criteria: I don't know but I've had ILR since I was 16 & I'm now 24
Method of application: Postal (SD + Prepaid SD)
Date of application: 11/04/13
Date of receipt by UKBA: 12/04/13
Date of debit of fees: 19/04/13
Date of acknowledgement : 19/04/13 (received on the 27th)
Return of documents: 22/05/13 (received on 24/05/13)
Date of approval:
Date of invitation letter :
Date of Ceremony:

Ok, here's what happened with my application. On Friday (24/05/13) I received a letter from UKBA (dated 22/05/13) saying they need proof of my residence from the 27/02/12 - 12/04/13.

This is because my non British passport expired on the 27/02/12 and my application was received by them on the 12/04/13 so they needed me to account for the time period my passport was expired for.

No problem, I sent them all the documents they requested. They also sent back my documents they didn't need anymore, like the expired passport and my driving license so I've got those back.

I sent the documents they needed immediately back to them on Friday, (24/05/13) in an envelope they provided that had a reference and department number on it, by SD and also put another prepaid SD envelope in there. Now, because of the weekend and bank holiday they won't get it till Tuesday.

My question is, do you think that after they receive these documents I will get my approval quickly?

Because I think they are very nearly finished with my application, and if there wasn't the issue with the expired passport it would have probably been the approval letter I received on Friday! Ugh! So annoying! I was so excited when the postman came and I saw he had my prepaid self addressed envelope, only to find it wasn't the approval letter!

So basically, how fast do you think I will be receiving my approval letter? End of next week?

I know that no one knows and it's all just guesswork but I just want some reassurance. Lol.

[alisha123]

Received approval and all documents today (25th May) dated 24th May on the approval letter . Applied on 18th of April and received 19th April by UKBA so it took exactly 5 weeks for approval. Thanks to everyone on this forum. God bless you all

That was fast. Congratulations and hope you have a memorable ceremony.

Thanks Plum70

[Plum70]

Received approval and all documents today (25th May) dated 24th May on the approval letter . Applied on 18th of April and received 19th April by UKBA so it took exactly 5 weeks for approval. Thanks to everyone on this forum. God bless you all

That was fast. Congratulations and hope you have a memorable ceremony.

[alisha123]

Received approval and all documents today (25th May) dated 24th May on the approval letter . Applied on 18th of April and received 19th April by UKBA so it took exactly 5 weeks for approval. Thanks to everyone on this forum. God bless you all

[girishmysore]

This is super fast. I am guessing you received this today so what date is on the approval letter?

Yes I received approval letter today and approval date is 23 May 2013.

This is super fast. I am guessing you received this today so what date is on the approval letter? 04/05/2013 is a saturday. Assuming it was debited on 03/05/2013, and taking into account the bank holiday on 06/05/2013, your application was decided and returned to you within 14 working days. it takes approximately 5 days from the decision date to receive the letter so your case was decided in 10 working days. The fastest I have ever seen *eyes wide shut*

It's really fast. girishmysore, how do you beat UKBA? I am joking. Congratulate!

Thanks , even I was surprised. Never expected to get such a fast response from UKBA.

[johnwray29]

Eligibility criteria: Spouse of BC + ILR
Method of application: NCS
Date of application: 15 April 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 17 April 2013
Date of acknowledgement: 24 April 2013
Date of debit of fees: 24 April 2013
Date of approval: 25 May 2013 (dated 21 May 2013)
Date of Ceremony: will book it next week



This was quite quick , wish all UKBA departments were as quick!

Realistic timeline. congrats!!

[Mr.Happy]

Eligibility criteria: Spouse of BC + ILR
Method of application: NCS
Date of application: 15 April 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 17 April 2013
Date of acknowledgement: 24 April 2013
Date of debit of fees: 24 April 2013
Date of approval: 25 May 2013 (dated 21 May 2013)
Date of Ceremony: will book it next week



This was quite quick , wish all UKBA departments were as quick!

[onceblue]

Eligibility criteria: 1 year work permit + 4 yrs Tier 1 + 1.5 yr ILR
Method of application: Postal
Date of application: 26 Apirl 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 29 April 2013 (Recorded delivery)
Date of acknowledgement: 09 May 2013
Date of debit of fees: 04 May 2013
Date of approval: 25 May 2013
Date of approval: yet to book an appointment.

This is super fast. I am guessing you received this today so what date is on the approval letter?

Yes I received approval letter today and approval date is 23 May 2013.

This is super fast. I am guessing you received this today so what date is on the approval letter? 04/05/2013 is a saturday. Assuming it was debited on 03/05/2013, and taking into account the bank holiday on 06/05/2013, your application was decided and returned to you within 14 working days. it takes approximately 5 days from the decision date to receive the letter so your case was decided in 10 working days. The fastest I have ever seen *eyes wide shut*

It's really fast. girishmysore, how do you beat UKBA? I am joking. Congratulate!

[johnwray29]

Eligibility criteria: 1 year work permit + 4 yrs Tier 1 + 1.5 yr ILR
Method of application: Postal
Date of application: 26 Apirl 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 29 April 2013 (Recorded delivery)
Date of acknowledgement: 09 May 2013
Date of debit of fees: 04 May 2013
Date of approval: 25 May 2013
Date of approval: yet to book an appointment.

This is super fast. I am guessing you received this today so what date is on the approval letter?

Yes I received approval letter today and approval date is 23 May 2013.

This is super fast. I am guessing you received this today so what date is on the approval letter? 04/05/2013 is a saturday. Assuming it was debited on 03/05/2013, and taking into account the bank holiday on 06/05/2013, your application was decided and returned to you within 14 working days. it takes approximately 5 days from the decision date to receive the letter so your case was decided in 10 working days. The fastest I have ever seen *eyes wide shut*

[girishmysore]

Eligibility criteria: 1 year work permit + 4 yrs Tier 1 + 1.5 yr ILR
Method of application: Postal
Date of application: 26 Apirl 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 29 April 2013 (Recorded delivery)
Date of acknowledgement: 09 May 2013
Date of debit of fees: 04 May 2013
Date of approval: 25 May 2013
Date of approval: yet to book an appointment.

This is super fast. I am guessing you received this today so what date is on the approval letter?

Yes I received approval letter today and approval date is 23 May 2013.

[johnwray29]

Eligibility criteria: 1 year work permit + 4 yrs Tier 1 + 1.5 yr ILR
Method of application: Postal
Date of application: 26 Apirl 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 29 April 2013 (Recorded delivery)
Date of acknowledgement: 09 May 2013
Date of debit of fees: 04 May 2013
Date of approval: 25 May 2013
Date of approval: yet to book an appointment.

This is super fast. I am guessing you received this today so what date is on the approval letter? 04/05/2013 is a saturday. Assuming it was debited on 03/05/2013, and taking into account the bank holiday on 06/05/2013, your application was decided and returned to you within 14 working days. it takes approximately 5 days from the decision date to receive the letter so your case was decided in 10 working days. The fastest I have ever seen *eyes wide shut*

[girishmysore]

Eligibility criteria: 1 year work permit + 4 yrs Tier 1 + 1.5 yr ILR
Method of application: Postal
Date of application: 26 Apirl 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 29 April 2013 (Recorded delivery)
Date of acknowledgement: 09 May 2013
Date of debit of fees: 04 May 2013
Date of approval: 25 May 2013
Date of approval: yet to book an appointment.

[reseng]

Eligibility criteria: 3 year work permit + 2 yrs Tier 2 + 1 yr ILR
Method of application: NCS Newham London
Date of application: 26 March 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 02 April 2013
Date of acknowledgement: Not yet received
Date of debit of fees: 09 Apr 2013
Date of approval: Waiting

[Kennavarro]

Disclaimer: This method will only apply to straight forward applications if your application has niggles and complex it will definately take as long as they wish probably up to half a year before you can say anything...
please also Bear in mind things can dwell for months on straight ward applications too or get done exceptionally fast which is usually a mistake than intentional...

Date of application= Useless whether by post or NCS.

1. Date of Acknowledgement(DoA) on the letter received is where things start its the real date of application....usually concides with date of debiting your account.
From this date(DoA) count a good twenty days to approve a straight forward application note: always round off to the nearest number that will act as zero
example 1.if your date (DoA) was 8/5/13 then for calculation purposes make it 10/5/13 in your head...another example2 (DoA) 3/5/13 then for calculation purposes make it 01/5/13 in your head
2. Date of Approval(DoAPP) taking example 1 above if if your date (DoA) was 8/5/13 then for calculation purposes make it 10/5/13 in your head then after twenty days internal approval by UKBA should be made on the 30/5/13(DoAPP)...which is the date(DoAPP) you will see on your letter of approval then it will take ten days to reach you in the post.
3. Date of receipt of Approval( DoR) using example 1 we can add ten more days to (DoAPP) making (DoR) 10/6/13 this is the very day the post man will come knocking on the door if your (DoA) is 8/5/13 ...most applications that are straight forwards will fall in this range...of course we give or take three days to make up time wasted tea breaks, small talk and bathroom breaks that UKBA takes.

Typical example of member who just got approved
Eligibility criteria: 2 year Tier 2 +3 yrs Tier 1 + 1 yr ILR
Method of application: NCS Ilford
Date of application: 3rd April 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA:
Date of acknowledgement: 10th April 2013 (DoA)
Date of debit of fees: 9th April 2013 (DoA)
Date of approval: 10th May(DoR) dated approval on 4th May(DoAPP)


Good luck folks just work out your own dates and kick back knowing exactly when Mr Post man will come knocking ...

Surreal...

How do you define as complicated application? In our case we requested to slightly change the first name. (Nothing drastic.) So for e.g. Rahulbhai Sharma needs to be Rahul Sharma. Is this counts as complicated (or with niggles)?

Answer:
ric1982 thank you for your query here is my opinion.

Lets start with a defining a straight forward application...that is one that is CORRECTLY filled because mistakes mean more double checking for example ticking you have an offence by mistake when you dont will require them doing more checks and if they dont find any thing they will contact you to explain why you ticked you had a criminal offence. So that is an extreme mistake so its likely to cost you more weeks on top of the calculated time...minor mistakes like sending wrong bank detail will also cost you time.
Now on to your case changing your Name spelling is not the biggest mistake but might see you waiting from a few more days to weeks...why because they may need to do more checks since they have to re enter your name differently to in the system so they may need to check the new name on the police National computer again....

Other niggles will include complex applications with multiple members, board line applications talking about people who apply one day before they qualify etc the list is endless....thats why the NCS was formed to streamline the process more and double check your application for minor errors that would cost you weeks of waiting but unfortunately if you have been down to them you will realise some of them just do a rushed service and cash in your money as fast as they can.

By all means none of the above is written in stone...UKBA makes mistakes too and has been known to give ILR to people applying for tier one extensions before qualifying so LUCK is a big factor you can help luck along by making all information on your application as accurate as possible and then hopefully you will have a straight forward application which falls under my calculation ...
ALL the BEST!

[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:
Date of debit of fees: 23 May 2013
Date of approval:

[Samuel72]

Yes I did mention it , yeah I do a job that requires crb checks and it didn't come out.

[Peterpan81]

In 2007 was given 3 driving points and £60 fine in court and my rehabilitation period lapsed on the 28/11/2012, so I applied on the 29/12/2012. I don't know whether this is what causing the delay.

Did you mention it in your application form? Because otherwise it doesn't
show up on your crb records unless you sent them the driving license and counterpart !!

[Samuel72]

In 2007 was given 3 driving points and £60 fine in court and my rehabilitation period lapsed on the 28/11/2012, so I applied on the 29/12/2012. I don't know whether this is what causing the delay.

[faz28]

In 2 weeks time it will be 6 months for my husbands application, still nothing don't know why it has taken so long. He applied on 11/12/2012. One of his friend who applied after him got it in 4 weeks time. I understand each and everyone's case is different but 6 months is a long time.

[teawithlemon]

Date of application: 29/12 /2012
Date of receipt by UKBA:
Date of acknowledgement: 10/12/2012
Date of approval:

still waiing i dont the why the delay. its six months now.

Was it a straight forward application ? Have you ever had any criminal offense or any kind of fine or records like that ? When they debited money from your account ? As it is over 6 months so best option is write a email to them and lets see what reply you get. If they dont reply then after 10 days phoned them. And they will probably tell you the current status of the application. They can take as long as 1 year or even more as there is no time limit but normally they give decission within 6 months. And always be polite with them as it is our interest to become British so we have to have patience, but I know how hard it is for you to wait for a decission month after month. And I would like to ask you send an email to your local MP and seeks help to speed up the aplication and may be you can also send them a cover letter requesting speed up your application. And if ypu sent all orginal documents, ask them to return it however that wont help to speed up but it will help to travel or seeking new job or open a bank account or as a ID process. I strongly wish your success.

[Samuel72]

Date of application: 29/12 /2012
Date of receipt by UKBA:
Date of acknowledgement: 10/12/2012
Date of approval:

still waiing i dont the why the delay. its six months now.