July 2013 - Naturalisation application Timeline

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 2:22 pm

neoseal wrote:Again, just now I received reply "No decision has been made yet", I also asked if it is assigned to case worker, no reply to that. the reply was from the same person who replied to me 2 weeks back.

thats the same reply I got 2 weeks ago; I sent another one yesterday; I'll check my email later on and see if they told me the same as you...

Wehi · Post by **Wehi** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 5:54 pm

Just got mine!

Applied on the 31st of July via NCS @ Southwark.

Got the approval today: 17th September, its dated the 9th of September.

Good luck to all those still waiting!

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:03 pm

neoseal wrote:Again, just now I received reply "No decision has been made yet", I also asked if it is assigned to case worker, no reply to that. the reply was from the same person who replied to me 2 weeks back.

I knew it; I got the same copy and paste reply today; same person, same reply worded exactly the same " no decision made"; I don't expect it this year to be honest; maybe in January or February.....

I'll email them again in 2 weeks, anyway

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:07 pm

Wehi wrote:Just got mine!

Applied on the 31st of July via NCS @ Southwark.

Got the approval today: 17th September, its dated the 9th of September.

Good luck to all those still waiting!

Congrats, pal; I guess yours went to the lucky group haha

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:07 pm

Wehi wrote:Just got mine!

Applied on the 31st of July via NCS @ Southwark.

Got the approval today: 17th September, its dated the 9th of September.

Good luck to all those still waiting!

Congrats, pal; I guess yours went to the lucky group haha

neoseal · Post by **neoseal** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 10:04 pm

Congrats Wehi.

ilr_hsmp2007 · Post by **ilr_hsmp2007** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:35 pm

ilr_hsmp2007 wrote:I am waiting for more than 2 months and No progress so far...

Eligibility criteria: 2yrs HSMP + 3yrs Tier + 1yr ILR
Application : Family (2 adult + 1 Child)
Method of application: NCS Birmingham
Date of application: 05th July 2013
Received by HO: 09th July 2013(assuming)
Date of debit of fees: 18th July 2103
Date of acknowledgement : 27th July 2103
Date of approval: WAITING...

Anyone during the 1st/2nd week of JULY are still waiting for approval?

I am worried that something wrong happened at NCS while they took my documents copy.

thanks

FINALLY I HAVE GOT THE APPROVAL TODAY

Eligibility criteria: 2yrs HSMP + 3yrs Tier + 1yr ILR
Application : Family (2 adult + 1 Child)
Method of application: NCS Birmingham
Date of application: 05th July 2013
Received by HO: 09th July 2013(assuming)
Date of debit of fees: 18th July 2103
Date of acknowledgement : 27th July 2103
Date of approval: Letter received on 18-SEP-2013 (Dated 13-SEP-2013)
Ceremony date : Waiting from Birmingham Council

njoy1987 · Post by **njoy1987** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:40 pm

ilr_hsmp2007,

Congrats Buddz

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:52 pm

neoseal wrote:Congrats Wehi.

You applied around the 20th of July and haven't got a decision yet, right?

neoseal · Post by **neoseal** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:30 pm

Congrats ILR-HSMP2007.

neoseal · Post by **neoseal** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 4:34 pm

Who me?
I applied 11th July.
So people in the beginning of July and end of July are getting approved and middle ones.....

sokrates99 · Post by **sokrates99** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:49 pm

sokrates99 wrote:
sokrates99 wrote:Eligibility criteria: 6 years of exercising Treaty Rights (A8 national)
Method of application: postal
Date of application: 17 July 2013
Received by UKBA: 18 July 2013
Date of debit of fees: 22 July 2013
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 26 July 2013
Date of receipt of approval: 18th September (dated 16th September)
Date of Ceremony : TBC

I emailed them and got a respone on 30 August 2013 that no decision has yet been made on my application. In my enquiry i asked them to say if it has been allocated to a caseworker and they wrote "Your case has already been passed to a caseworker." I hope it won't be long now.
8 weeks since they debited my account i got another email confirming that no decision has been made. Im requesting some docs back as i have a holiday booked in a few weeks.

I got it!!!!! My approval letter came today:-)))) Thank you to everyone on this forum! I received so much help and advise here.
As many other people wrote - don't trust these email updates. Yesterday I got an email that no decision had been made but yet my approval letter was written the day before yesterday.
I don't know if it is a coincidence that on Sunday I filled out the online request for my documents to be returned and my approval was granted on Monday.

njoy1987 · Post by **njoy1987** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 5:52 pm

Fantastisch sokrates99

neoseal · Post by **neoseal** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 6:25 pm

Congrats Sokrates99.
We are getting there....

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 7:38 pm

neoseal wrote:Congrats Sokrates99.
We are getting there....

Yeah, I meant you; you applied almost 2 weeks before me; I applied on the 22nd.

What nationality are you? I'm EU; are you EU or some of the risk countries? I heard that some nationalities take long than others; anyway, like Sokrates said those email updates are a bit useless; they told him no decision made and he got the letter one day later.....

sokrates99 · Post by **sokrates99** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:27 pm

Thanks neoseal and njoy1987. Good luck to everyone waiting!

ilr_hsmp2007 · Post by **ilr_hsmp2007** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:55 pm

neoseal wrote:Congrats ILR-HSMP2007.

thanks , Wish you good Luck.

You will get approval by this Friday...Trust me...
More delays on postal side. it took a week to reach approval letter for me.

All the best.

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 9:31 pm

ilr_hsmp2007 wrote:
neoseal wrote:Congrats ILR-HSMP2007.
thanks , Wish you good Luck.

You will get approval by this Friday...Trust me...
More delays on postal side. it took a week to reach approval letter for me.

All the best.

HO letters are always slower; I think they come by pigeon lol

neoseal · Post by **neoseal** » Wed Sep 18, 2013 9:47 pm

[/quote]
HO letters are always slower; I think they come by pigeon lol[/quote]

No they come by good great old Royal Mail, pigeons are better, like special couriers, just tie a letter and they fly straight away, no delays, no waiting times.

I am not from so called high risk countries or EU. Let's hope ILR_Hsmp2007 words come true.

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 10:48 am

neoseal wrote:

HO letters are always slower; I think they come by pigeon lol[/quote]

No they come by good great old Royal Mail, pigeons are better, like special couriers, just tie a letter and they fly straight away, no delays, no waiting times.

I am not from so called high risk countries or EU. Let's hope ILR_Hsmp2007 words come true.[/quote]

But the funny thing is that I get letters, delivered by Royal Mail, from my company, an embassy, landlord, etc... and 2nd class ones usually arrive in 2 days; the acknowledgement letter I got from the HO took 10 days.... and from what I read here, that's quite common; actually in some cases, it's taken around a month.... so my guess is that when they send a letter out, it doesn't go straight out, it goes around the HO or gets stuck somewhere there for a while, before it goes out.... it must go through different internal departments and it takes around 8 days until it gets out of the HO.....

Alright, let's hope ILR_Hsmp2007 is right; although I still think it's a lottery.... let's see what happens.... at least I can travel without problems....

good luck

njoy1987 · Post by **njoy1987** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 11:29 am

there is no such theory as high risk countries and I think its discriminating because most of the countries mentioned in the so called "high risk" countries on this forum are former colonies of britain and still part of the common wealth there is various guys on here that have had their approvals within a 2 months or even a month all from so called high risk countries.

its stupid no where UKBA discriminates against any country as "High risk". if you look at the trends they are actually taking much longer to process EEA apps right now the easiest and fastest being spousal-

sarfraz1 from so called high risk country got his approval in 18 days

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 12:03 pm

njoy1987 wrote:there is no such theory as high risk countries and I think its discriminating because most of the countries mentioned in the so called "high risk" countries on this forum are former colonies of britain and still part of the common wealth there is various guys on here that have had their approvals within a 2 months or even a month all from so called high risk countries.

its stupid no where UKBA discriminates against any country as "High risk". if you look at the trends they are actually taking much longer to process EEA apps right now the easiest and fastest being spousal-

sarfraz1 from so called high risk country got his approval in 18 days

Hi njoy1987

I wasn't judging whether it's discriminatory or not; just saying what I've read here "that it takes longer to vet applicants from certain countries, because it requires extra checks" I'm not sure if it's true or not and I'm not judging whether it's fair or not; just saying that I've read it on the forum.

My theory is that it's a complete lottery; for instance like you said people from so called high risk countries have got approvals pretty fast, mine is a very straight forward EEA application without any conviction, dependents, etc.. 10 years continuous treaty rights without any conviction, FPN or special circumstances and it's taking longer than Sarfraz1's; so I personally don't think it depends on the country, but on your luck....

njoy1987 · Post by **njoy1987** » Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:49 am

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:51 am

njoy1987 wrote:true

sameeer · Post by **sameeer** » Fri Sep 20, 2013 12:34 pm

Finally a breather with the finish line in sight

Eligibility criteria: 2 years HSMP + 3 years Tie1 + 1 year ILR
Application : Self
Method of application: Postal (Royalmail Signed for)
Date of application: 25th July 2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: 29th July 2013
Date of debit of fees: 31st July 2013
Date of acknowledgement: 31st July 2013 (Arrived on 5th Aug)
Date of approval: 9th September (Arrived on 11th Sept)
Date of invitation: Arrived on 20th Sept
Date of Ceremony: No certificate arrived at council yet, so waiting to schedule

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