Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

[supercreature]

Eligibility criteria: HSMP 4yrs + 2.5 ILR years
NCS or Postal – NCS
Date of submission or posting – Tue 14/07/2011
Date received by HO - 21/07/2011 (NCS, sent it very late, took 5 days before sending it to Home office without any reason)
Date of debit of debit/credit card – unknown
Date of receipt of acknowledgement – 08/08/2011 dated 04/08/2011
Date of receipt of approval - Pending
Date of Ceremony - Pending

[winber]

Eligibility criteria: WP + Highly Skilled + Tier 1 + ILR, 5 + 1 years
NCS or Postal – NCS
Date of submission or posting – Tue 16/08/2011
Date received by HO - Unknown
Date of debit of debit/credit card – Unknown
Date of receipt of acknowledgement – 30/08/2011 dated 25/08/2011
Date of receipt of approval - Pending
Date of Ceremony - Pending

[Linklaters]

Eligibility criteria: 2yrs + 1yrs ILR Spouse of BC
NCS or Postal – Postal
Date of submission or posting – 16/08/2011
Date received by HO - 17/08/2011
Date of debit of debit/credit card – 26/08/2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement – 30/08/2011 dated 25/08/2011
Date of receipt of approval - Pending
Date of Ceremony - Pending

[Time Traveller]

Eligibility criteria: 5 years WP converted to Tier 1 + 1 year ILR
Method of application: NCS (Basingstoke and Deane)
Date of receipt by UKBA: 18-08-2011
Date of debit of fees: 26-08-2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 01-09-2011
Date of receipt of approval: 21-10-2011 (dated: 17-10-2011)
Date of Ceremony: 31-10-2011 (Private Ceremony)

[perm55]

Eligibility criteria: 5yr spouse of EEA citizen who is now BC. (Husband)
Method of application: NCS Redbridge
Date of application: 26 May 2011
Date of receipt by UKBA: 27/05/2011
Date of debit of fees: 22/06/11
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 06/06/11
Date of receipt of approval: 30/08/2011 dated 24/08/2011
Date of Ceremony: 05/09/2011 Private

Interim Update:
14-Jul-2011 Application in queue waiting for allocation. The lady told me that application result takes 3-6 months.
11-Aug-2011 Application is under consideration and allow 1 month for decision.
18-Aug-2011 Application is under consideration not allocated case worker yet. Applications are processed within 3-6 Months.
26-Aug-2011 Decision has been made and i will receive letter within 2 weeks.
30-Aug-2011 Finally i recevied my approval today. Booked private ceremony on the 5th September.

[KentSam]

Further Update

Criteria - 38 Years ILR (Finally got round to it!)
Type - Postal
Date of Submission - 4 May 2011
Date Reached UKBA - 9 May 2011
Date of debit of credit card - 31 May 2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement - 4 June 2011 (Dated 31 May 2011)
Date of Receipt of Approva Letterl - 5 August 2011 (dated 3 August 2011)
Date of Receipt of Citizenship Invitation from UKBA - 13 August 2011 (dated 4 August 2011)
Citizenship Ceremony Arranged for 8 September 2011 (Kent County Council)

Only time I rang UKBA was Monday 1st August when told application was in the queue to go to caseworker.

[ihatelovestorys]

Eligibility criteria: 5yr WP+ 1yr ILR
Method of application: NCS Camden
Date of application: 10/06/2011
Date of receipt by UKBA: 13/06/2011
Date of debit of fees: 23/06/2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 30/06/11
Date of receipt of approval: 25/08/2011 (dt. 18/08/11)
Date of Ceremony: 26/08/2011 (private)

Interim updates:
Called home office on 18/08/2011. They said a decision has been made today and I will receive the letter within 14 days.

[mohammed80]

Eligibility criteria: 4yr HSMP+ 1yr ILR
Method of application: NCS Camb
Date of application: 23 May 2011
Date of receipt by UKBA: 24/05/2011
Date of debit of fees: Don't know
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 01/06/11
Date of receipt of approval: Pending
Date of Ceremony: Pending

Interim Update:

25-Aug-2011 Decision has been made on 22/08/2011. Will get letter within 2 weeks.

[ninj]

Application Timeline :
Eligibility criteria: 5 yrs residency
Method of application: NCS Newham
Date of receipt by UKBA: 14th june 2011
Date of debit of fees: 17th june 2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 25th june 2011 dated 20th june 2011
Date of receipt of approval: 15th sept( dated 9th sept 2011)
Date of Ceremony: 3rd oct 11

Other Updates :
8th aug: called UKBA and informed its awaiting allocation
16th aug: called UKBA and got the same answer, awaiting to be allocated.
30th aug: called UKBA, initial checks done, waiting for CW allocation.
14th sept: with caseworker, should expect results in the next 10 working days.

[pbutterfly]

Application Timeline

[nksg]

Eligibility criteria: WP+HSMP+T1+ ILR - Joint application
Method of application: NCS - 14/07/2011
Date of receipt by UKBA: 15/07/2011
Date of debit of fees: 08/08/2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 15/08/2011
Date of receipt of approval: 16/09/2011 dated 08/09/2011
Date of Ceremony: 03/10/2011

Had one DR10 from 2004 (Expired)
and one CCJ from 2004 (Paid for and Expired)

Both declared.

No status update calls made.

[Miraiza]

Eligibility criteria: Family member EEA Citizen 8yrs
Method of application: NCS (Chelmsford)
Date of submission to NCS: 28/04/11
Date of receipt by UKBA: 03/05/11
Date of debit of fees: 08/05/11
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 10/05/11 Dated 09/05/11
Got a letter from HO asking for more information and have replied 11/07/2011/
Date of approval: 12/08/2011
Date of receipt of approval letter: 17/08/2011
Letter from Home office indicating Council contact: 18/08/2011
Letter of Ceremony invitation from Council: 19/08/2011
Date given by Council for ceremony: 07/09/2011
Date of Ceremony(Private): 24/08/2011[/quote]

[sylleo]

APplication criteria: 4 year spouse of BC (husband became citizen in April 11)
Method:postal
Applied on May 19
Received by HO May 20
Debit of fee June 1
Acknowledgement June 6 dated June 1
Started ringing HO only since end of July
Was told in the queue until friday 19th of August. Rang on tuesday 23rd of August and was told decision made yesterday (Monday 22nd of August) and I will be getting all my docs in few days.
Received all my documents in the special delivery envelope I sent with my application.
Decision: APPROVED
No convictions nor any special circumstances
I think the call centre system is not very up to date. Until friday they said its not allocated and then on tuesday I was told decision made on Monday.

[its.rudi]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 4 year WP + 1 year Tier 1 + 1 year ILR
Method of application: NCS Hatfield 25th may 2011
Date of receipt by UKBA: 26th may 2011
Date of debit of fees: 07th june 2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 13th june 2011 dated 06th june 2011
Date of receipt of approval: 6th september 2011; date on the letter is 24th august 2011
Date of Ceremony: 19th september 2011

Other Updates
11th august 2011: they told me its in the queue to be allocated to a case worker.
16th august 2011: same as they told on 11th august
23rd august 2011: same as they told on 11th august
26th august 2011: decision has been made on 25th august 2011 (absolutely no idea what was the decision ... ). It will take 2 weeks to get the letter.

It took exactly 3 months for them to make an decision. Do not know when I will get it ...

[Gm09]

My timeline
Postal/ncs- postal
Sent- 19 May 2011
Arrived ukba- 20 May 2011
Money taken from account- 30 May 2011
Acknowledgement letter- 6 June 2011
Approval- 19 august 2011
Approval letter- 23 august 2011
Ceremony- pending

So happy I got my approval! Just wondering if anyone could help me about the ceremony I have to wait for the invitation letter how long does this usually take to come through? Could I book a private ceremony without the invitation letter?
Thanks

[hangermajor]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 10 years student + 1 year ILR
Method of application: ncs lewisham
Date of receipt by UKBA: 24 may 2011
Date of debit of fees:ist week of june
Date of receipt of acknowledgement:ist week of june dated 6 june 2011
Date of receipt of approval: 23 august (received on 2 sep 2011
Date of Ceremony: 6 october 2011


I called home office on 23 august and the guy told me it is a matter of days , he told me that I will receive a letter within 10 working days , it is on final stage.

on 5th sep i called local authority for ceremony and they say they do not have private ceremony so i had to attend on with group ceremony on 6th october 2011.

[Mushfiq11]

Finally, got my approval letter this morning after 14 weeks.

Eligibility criteria: 4 yrs HSMP+ 1 Yr ILR
Method of application: Postal
Date of Application: 11/05/11
Date of receipt by UKBA: 12/05/11
Date of debit of fees: 20/05/11
Date of receipt of acknowledgement:20/05/11
Date of receipt of approval: 23/08/11
Date of Ceremony:

[brit2b]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: WP + HSMP + Tier 1 + 1 year ILR
Method of application: Postal
Date of receipt by UKBA: 9/8/2011
Date of debit of fees:17/8/2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement:20/8/2011
Date of receipt of approval:
Date of Ceremony:

[itsram.san]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 4 year HSMP + 1 year ilr
Method of application: NCS Weybridge 1 August 2011
Date of receipt by UKBA: 3 August 2011
Date of debit of fees: 16 August 2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 20 August 2011
Date of receipt of approval: 26 September 2011 dated 19 September 2011
Date of Ceremony: 29 September 2011

Received the approval after almost 2 months. Private ceremony booked for this Thursday.

[Gm09]

My timeline
Postal/ncs- postal
Sent- 19 May 2011
Arrived ukba- 20 May 2011
Money taken from account- 30 May 2011
Acknowledgement letter- 6 June 2011
Approval- still waiting
Ceremony- still waiting.

Phoned HO 8 august waiting in queue for caseworker
Phoned again 10 august guy said it getting to the top of the queue and should know in a week

[finallydone]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 5 year WP/HSMP/Tier 1 + 1 year ilr
Method of application: NCS Wandsworth 26 June 2011
Date of receipt by UKBA: 2? June 2011
Date of debit of fees: 14 July 2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 18 July dated 13 July 2011
Date of receipt of approval: 15 August 2011 letter dated 03 August
Date of Ceremony: 14 September 2011 (though may change it)

Can't believe it came so fast!! Hope others have as good of luck.

[10LONDON]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 10 yr + 1 yr ILR
Method of application: NCS Southwark
Date of receipt by UKBA: 19/05/2011
Date of debit of fees: 23/05/2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 27/05/2011
Date of receipt of approval: 28/07/2011
Date of Ceremony: 07/09/2011

[cheema]

[b]criteria: married to bc
method: postal
appllied on: 16th april
received by ho:19th april
fee taken : 9th may
acknowledgment letter received:14th may dated 9th may
approval letter received:[/b] 10th aug dated 8th aug

called several time...
latest calls:22nd june awaiting in queue for the case worker allocation
,29th june.. same answer, 11th july going through initial checks not yet allocated to case worker, 19th july going through background checks,
called on 9th aug been told deceion has been made on 8th aug.

[b]i would like to thank everybody on this forum, it is so helpful and people are very supportive .. luck to all of you who are waiting.
[/b]

[YVRtoLHR]

Application timeline

Eligibility criteria: British mother
Method of Application: UKM form
Date of Receipt by UKBA: 24/6/11
Date of debit of fees: 21/7/11
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: N/A
Date of receipt of approval: N/A
Date of Ceremony: N/A


Interim Updates

Aug 8: Called HO, application not in system yet/not assigned a case #

[Tamim]

Application Timeline
Eligibility criteria: 3yr spouse of BC
Method of application: NCS Oxfordshire
Date of receipt by UKBA:28-07-11
Date of debit of credit card:11/08/2011
Date of receipt of acknowledgement:15/08/2011(Dated on 11-08-2011)
Date of receipt of approval:30/11/11 (Dated on 18-11-2011)
Date of Ceremony:15/12/11
Notes:

Tried calling HO but they don't provide any status update....... still waiting for my approval
25/11/11 Called HO I was told by this lady my letter was sent out 2 days ago ...

Received my approval and ceremony letter today after exactly 4 months very happy and best of luck to all who are waiting