ezh,

dont you think you are making too many 'mule'umptions?

i never got a medal at mine

My time line NCS or Postal : Postal Date of submission or posting : 28/8/05 Date of debit of debit/credit card : 12/9/05 Date of receipt of acknowledgement : 17/9/05 Date of receipt of approval : 6/12/05 Date of receipt of ceremony invitation : 8/12/05 Date of Ceremony : 26/1/06 Date of appln. for p...

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Correct me if I am wrong but the section 3 of a the passport application for states ' You must send us all uncancelled passports with the application'.

That would indicate no need for expired passports?

congratulations enpv, cant wait for my ceremony next weeek.

Thanks for the replies. i spoke to the UKPA again, they confirmed that i need not fill a change of name deed. i can exclude CCCC by just putting in a covering note to explain. etc. She said that excluding CCCC is not considered as change of name. Change of name would be e.g. if i wanted to change CC...

birth certificate has AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD and thats why my non-british passport has it as well.

my driving license, bank cards, etc etc has AAAA BBBB DDDD

as i said before i have never called my self AAAA BBBB CCCC DDDD. it just happens to be on my passport.

i suspected and was convinced that i would have to complete a change of name deed, but when i asked the same question to the ukpa helpline, i was told to omit the middle name i did not wish to have ,CCCC in this case and explain in the additional info section. i dont know if he was quite sure of the...

for anyone with a similar experience.... The name on my non-british passport appears as AAAA (name) BBBB (fathers name) CCCC (grandfathers name) DDDD (surname) This is the way it appears on the naturalisation certificate as well. However i have never used it in that format and have always used AAAA ...

I agree with what you say, but I assume going through the councillor would just wind up the reg. officers more especially when that approach will be slightly defensive. I fear that if they ever agree to a private ceremony (which they will be p*ssed off about) they wil charge me anextortionate amount...

John, Thanks for that, I had already looked at both link before posting and had already identified my local conciller. Notts CC is the local authority for my area. I spoke to a different person this afternoon, who said no again,( who only referred my question to his colleague , who i had spoken to a...

Nope, Nottingham is clearly not rural, they only offer one cermony a month and another, oncea month in town of mansfield.

Are local authorities/Councils obliged to provide private ceremonies, or is it something they do out of goodwill? When I called my council to arrange and cermony i was give a date 40 days away, so I queried about a private one, and was rudely told, we dont do private ceremonies. Do i have no choice ...

can you not contact the police to speed things up? i mean, clearly you are quite keen on getting this woman 'sorted'

we are still dealing with application, and we will inform you of our decision as soon as we have received the results of our character enquiries, which are carried out on all naturalisation applications. This may take several months. Does everyone's letter receive similar paragraph?. flyez, my ackn...

how long does it take for the ceremony invitation letter to come through?

yes you can, thats exactly why i called them., to ask on the progress of an application. They do have recorded messages to put people off from calling them, but i suppose it really depends on how long you have been waiting for. I think it would be reasonable to say that dont call them for atleast 3 ...

woooooooooo hooooooooooo....i just called the IND to check on update of my application which i sent by post end of august. he told me it was approved day before yesterday and that the letter was on its way which i should get shortly...i am over the mooon... wooooooooo hoooooo. He also congratulated ...

all those waiting for decissions, the average time for naturalisation has dropped from 4.04 to 3.99... clearly they seem to be on the case and be working on it...?

lemess, i agree with you, but i am assuming the 3 or 6 month average times relative to application received directly at liverpool. do ncs application count towards average time? if so, they are clearly helping the ind statistics to lower average waiting time. also, there is no one on the forum whose...

the telephone has always said that the waiting time is currently 6 months, regardless of the website (for the last 3 months atleast). However my belief (only my assumption) is that the website is probably more accurate or gives a better picture as it is updated regularly. the telephone recording on ...

to add to your cost of naturalisation...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4445534.stm

Reagrds

KP

my timeline

- application received by post at liverpool on 30/8/05 based on marriage

- debit card processed on 12/9/05

KP

folks,

if anyone is interested, my application timeline...

*edited*

...now posted in the correct place!!!