Ceremony letter without Home office letter

[abhishek_10]

Hi Guys

I had applied for my citizenship via the online method back in early march. Today I recieved an Invitation letter from my local council for the Citizenship Ceremony. However, I've not recieved any letter from the home office so far.

On the ceremony invitation it states, I need both the home office letter and the invite letter. Has anyone else been in this situation? I'm wondering if I can call the home office and ask for a re-issue?

Would appreciate your thoughts on this.

[dontringthebell]

If your ceremony is very close do check with HO, there 2nd class post can sometimes take up to 2 weeks to arrive from decision date.

You could also check with council about your decision date as per the intimation sent by HO to them.

[abhishek_10]

Thanks for your response. The ceremony date is pretty far, so I'm thinking going for a private ceremony.

I'll give HO a call tomorrow and check with them.

[dontringthebell]

mine was 1 month and a half from the date of approval, however, due to significant cost difference I used the time to ready further applications for surrender and OCI. Might be you have urgent travel needs.

[Hstepper07]

I received a ceremony invite letter on 5th May without my approval letter. I have booked a ceremony for next week and they just asked me to bring my ceremony invitation letter.

[abhishek_10]

Letter came through today. It's dated 4th May so it took a while to come...

thanks guys for your responses.