Check the status of your application online - New service

[PS89]

Update: just got my approval letter!! decided online 30/11, dated on the letter 04/12. Off I go to book my ceremony.

Good luck you all!!

Hi baccus99

Congratulations
Did you get both approval letter and invitation letter or only approval letter. I got mine approval letter on 29th nov but not received yet citizenship invitation letter.

hi there buddy, THANKS and congrats to you too!

No I received the approval letter and in there it has the contact details for my local county register (Dorchester). I called them and once I mentioned my name they said "yep we got your certificate yesterday already and you will be posted a letter for invitation on the next available group ceremony". It will not be until 8th Feb 2018 but I am in no rush anyway so all good!
Maybe just give your register a call? They might have your stuff too and it's only a matter to get them to tell you what date they could offer you.
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Just to update I got my Invitation letter as well today dated 1st December 2017 from UKVI.
booked ceremony for 13th December 2017

[baccus99]

Update: just got my approval letter!! decided online 30/11, dated on the letter 04/12. Off I go to book my ceremony.

Good luck you all!!

Hi baccus99

Congratulations
Did you get both approval letter and invitation letter or only approval letter. I got mine approval letter on 29th nov but not received yet citizenship invitation letter.

hi there buddy, THANKS and congrats to you too!

No I received the approval letter and in there it has the contact details for my local county register (Dorchester). I called them and once I mentioned my name they said "yep we got your certificate yesterday already and you will be posted a letter for invitation on the next available group ceremony". It will not be until 8th Feb 2018 but I am in no rush anyway so all good!
Maybe just give your register a call? They might have your stuff too and it's only a matter to get them to tell you what date they could offer you.

Just to update I got my Invitation letter as well today dated 1st December 2017 from UKVI.
booked ceremony for 13th December 2017
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Thanks PS89 and CR001 - I live in a rural place where not many non-Brits live, hence then do once a month for the whole county!

[tallahassee]

Hi all,

I am a bit in a hurry, but good news!!!!

I got a 'Citizenship Invitation' letter.

It starts with 'I am pleased to tell you that this application for British citizenship has been approved' and then goes on talking about attending the ceremony.

Now, I know that I am supposed to receive two letters, the approval letter and the citizenship invitation letter. I am slightly confused as to which one this is and if I need to wait for the second one before booking the ceremony...?

Thank you all, I am so happy!

[PS89]

Hi all,

I am a bit in a hurry, but good news!!!!

I got a 'Citizenship Invitation' letter.

It starts with 'I am pleased to tell you that this application for British citizenship has been approved' and then goes on talking about attending the ceremony.

Now, I know that I am supposed to receive two letters, the approval letter and the citizenship invitation letter. I am slightly confused as to which one this is and if I need to wait for the second one before booking the ceremony...?

Thank you all, I am so happy!

Hi tallahassee

There are two types of letters.

1. Combined approval and ceremony letter.

2. Approval letter and separately a ceremony invite letter.

Who gets which is random selection, possibly based on area/postcode. For the second option, most usually have to wait for the invite letter.

So you received option 1
So you can book ceremony with council.

[HypeBeast]

If your online status is not recognised then you should remove the first alphabet or at least one number from your Home Office’s reference number.

For example, if your Home Office’s reference number is J123456789 then you should enter online as 123456789. Similarly, if your Home Office’s reference number is 0123456789 then you should enter online as 123456789.

P.S. I, and my other 2 friends’ were facing the same problem. We used this tactic and it worked for us. I hope it will work for everyone else too.

[shinebright]

In my case, I never received approval letter but got the citizenship invitation with which I booked and attended my ceremony (private for £50).

[Kkk20]

Can someone advice me what to do have try all The Ref number to check my application what is saying not recognised .today making 6 week now. Am checking it before since two days now showing not recognised

[CR001]

Can someone advice me what to do have try all The Ref number to check my application what is saying not recognised .today making 6 week now. Am checking it before since two days now showing not recognised

What have you applied for? Yesterday you posted the same question in the Tier 1 General dependent sub forum and today you are posting in the British citizenship sub forum.

uk-tier-1-general-visas/statu-saying-no ... l#p1571030

[Kkk20]

Resident permit. When I see alot of people say they application status saying awaiting decision and my own is not recognised. He saying awaiting decision before but now not recognised I just they worry about it

[CR001]

Resident permit. When I see alot of people say they application status saying awaiting decision and my own is not recognised. He saying awaiting decision before but now not recognised I just they worry about it

What 'residence permit' category exactly have you applied for? Please note you cannot simply post your questions across all different sub forums. There are category specific sub forums and you should post in the one that is relevant to the application you have made.

[MAS99]

My application status changed today ( 08/12/2017) . I just called them and they told me that the decsion was made on 04th Dec 2017

Letter is in post but sadly Royal Mail doesn't deliver on Sunday

[bmstein]

Halleluja! After 5 months and 3 days my online status changed to DECIDED (applied on 05/07)
Now everything crossed for the right outcome. For the reference, the status changed between 2.15 and 4.15 pm, definitely not at 12.

[Ele231703]

Hi Mas99 and bmstein, congratulation to both of you.i kew you will get it eventualy.......
Like everybody says, be patient( I know it's hard, but life carry on....with or without),,
Our turn will come, as we have nothing to reproach to ourselves with....

[MAS99]

Halleluja! After 5 months and 3 days my online status changed to DECIDED (applied on 05/07)
Now everything crossed for the right outcome. For the reference, the status changed between 2.15 and 4.15 pm, definitely not at 12.

Looks like our application were both decided at same time. I applied on 01st July and you applied on 5th july...

FYI the decision was made on 04th Dec but updated today .. so hopefully expect letter next week.. Let's just hope it is right decision.

THanks

[bmstein]

Halleluja! After 5 months and 3 days my online status changed to DECIDED (applied on 05/07)
Now everything crossed for the right outcome. For the reference, the status changed between 2.15 and 4.15 pm, definitely not at 12.

Looks like our application were both decided at same time. I applied on 01st July and you applied on 5th july...

FYI the decision was made on 04th Dec but updated today .. so hopefully expect letter next week.. Let's just hope it is right decision.

THanks

That would be great!!! How do you know yours (and hopefully mine) got decided on the 4th? Do you have some clever trick to extract information form HO?
Fingers crossed for both of us and congratulations!

[bmstein]

Hi Mas99 and bmstein, congratulation to both of you.i kew you will get it eventualy.......
Like everybody says, be patient( I know it's hard, but life carry on....with or without),,
Our turn will come, as we have nothing to reproach to ourselves with....

Hi ele231703 and thanks . It did seem like it will never happen. I was absolutely convinced it will be over 6 months judging by the recent pace of HO. So nearly there

[bmstein]

Hi Mas99 and bmstein, congratulation to both of you.i kew you will get it eventualy.......
Like everybody says, be patient( I know it's hard, but life carry on....with or without),,
Our turn will come, as we have nothing to reproach to ourselves with....

Hi ele231703 and thanks . It did seem like it will never happen. I was absolutely convinced it will be over 6 months judging by the recent pace of HO. So nearly there

Mass99 ignore my question, must've missed your post at the top of the page.
Congratulations and fingers crossed for a good outcome. Hopefully we'll find out next week.

[astraeus]

If your online status is not recognised then you should remove the first alphabet or at least one number from your Home Office’s reference number.

For example, if your Home Office’s reference number is J123456789 then you should enter online as 123456789. Similarly, if your Home Office’s reference number is 0123456789 then you should enter online as 123456789.

P.S. I, and my other 2 friends’ were facing the same problem. We used this tactic and it worked for us. I hope it will work for everyone else too.

When did you apply? I applied on the 16th of November and still not recognized.

[Zaib992]

Hello everyone, my status was changed on 24th Nov to "Decided" and i was waiting for 10 days for my letter to arrived but nothing came i called them and within couple of hours received an email from UKVI that my case is still not decided and that was an error and we apologise its a trail website and we are doing our best to get it better
please advise me if that happened to anyone else before and what happened after that am very tensed

[Ciaocico]

https://contact-ukvi.homeoffice.gov.uk/ ... visastatus Sorry he stop to work check status application!!!!!! Just me or everyone?

[Ele231703]

Hi Ciaocico, i have noticed too, that the page can't be found, now we just have to wait for the "approval letter" like is used to be in the old days

[Marikistin]

This is same for me tried to check mine this morning and its not coming up

[randomperson]

Looks like it's gone. You also used to be able to get to that page by going through the options under Contact UKVI, and it no longer comes up there either. Uh oh. Well, I guess it did say that it was a trial service (I think?)...

[bruteforce]

The admins of this board were so annoyed with that tracker that they had to request UKVI to shut it down. This thread was growing into 84 pages already & they didn't want this.

[MYA]

Life is again easy and less stressful haaaa.....
“Happy Good old days“