I've applied for the pasport on 28/11 (Saturday) and sent my documents on 30/11 (Monday). I've received my new British pasport on 11/12, quite quick, but the supporting documents only today, 23/12. Obviously my certificate has been folded in half. In both cases passport and documents, TNT delivered ...

Passport for: Adult 1st passport after Naturalisation Applying from: UK Method of application: Online Passport Office: Peterborough Date of application: 28/11/2020 Date identity verified: 28/11/2020 Date documents sent: 30/11/2020 Date documents delivered: 1/12/2020 Date document received status: 1/...

Eligibility criteria: PR + 1 year Language criteria: GESE 5 + LIUK Nationality: Polish Method of application: Online Date of application: 10/07/2020 Date Biometrics enrolled: 10/08/2020 Date of receipt of approval: 14/08/2020 email Date of receipt of ceremony letter: 11/11/2020, dated 31/10/2020 Dat...

I'm finally British. As per instructions in the Croydon Register Office website I tried to book a private ceremony by mail. I've only received auto reply that I will be replied in 10 working days. After 10 working days, yesterday, I called the number for group ceremonies only. Of course they are su...

I'm finally British. As per instructions in the Croydon Register Office website I tried to book a private ceremony by mail. I've only received auto reply that I will be replied in 10 working days. After 10 working days, yesterday, I called the number for group ceremonies only. Of course they are sus...

Update from Croydon. I called the Register. It took more than half an hour to wait for consultant to answer the phone. The group ceremonies has now been canceled. The private ceremonies are still available but you need to arrange them by email. I've already emailed them two days ago and still no rep...

At last, the good news. I haven't received the invitation letter from the HO yet but Croydon Council got my certificate today 😊. The lady on the phone was very polite and friendly and said I could attend the ceremony without the invitation letter as long as I bring my passport with me. Croydon has ...

I've finally won in the games of chances

Applied 10/07/2020
Biometrics 10/08/2020
Approved 14/08/2020
Invitation Letter 11/11/2020 dated 31/10/2020.
Ceremony: suspended because of the lockdown
Council: Croydon

Good luck to everyone.

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There were 2-3 weeks in October when no one reported receiving an invitation. Probably something went wrong at HO, they thought they are printing and dispatching, but they weren't. It mast have been fixed later and so the September approvals went according to plan. August and late July has been lost...

I quite don't get it. Late August and September approvals got their invitations but June July early August still waiting. It doesn't make any sense at all. No, it doesn’t. And I find it upsetting and will include this into my formal complaint I’m doing the next days with or without invitation anywa...

Frou01 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 05, 2020 12:26 pm

Is there anyone from August who didn’t receive an invitation today?

14th August and no invitation yet. I hope it will arrive in the next few days. Anyway Croydon council suspended ceremonies.
Good luck to everyone as it seams a big wave of invitations is on its way.

Baybars what about this timeline? This is definitely genuine September approval as the biometrics was taken in August. While invitation is pending, Kent council already received certificate. Dear all, Just an update, my closed one's certificate was arrived at his council on 31/10/2020 for 14/10/2020...

Croydon Council placed this nice and sweat message: "From 5 November, weddings, civil partnerships and citizenship ceremonies will not be taking place due to national restrictions." I guess, open ended. Unbelievable!!! I'm not surprised at all. Last time Croydon was one of the latest coun...

The main problem during the lockdown is to print certificates. HO claims they cannot print certificates when they work from home. So with or without ceremonies there will be no certificates to send. As it was mentioned a few times in this thread, they should digitalize certificates and allow to hav...

So by the way the whole HO message that backlog and all will be cleared by end of October 100%, was a straight up lie ? There are still people in June and pretty much everyone approved in July who did not receive the invitation letters so by the looks of it they were never printed but HO was saying...

I will wait for further people sharing their responses from their individual councils and my own to get confirmation in general ceremonies are suspended. Different to the first lockdown we might be the only ones being effected as UKVCAS and test centres will keep providing their services this time....

Btw don't even bother calling the HO. I just waited 25 mins to get to a really rude guy who denied whatever I was told before [July approvals will receive invitations by the end of October]. "I am just gonna have to wait until I receive it, no further updates." HO is a joke. :D Did they e...

I will wait for further people sharing their responses from their individual councils and my own to get confirmation in general ceremonies are suspended. Different to the first lockdown we might be the only ones being effected as UKVCAS and test centres will keep providing their services this time....

Totally agree. They just don’t care! They had 5 months to clear the backlog. In the 2nd half of June and the whole July, when pandemic was on its lowest HO was working from home and haven't printed a single certificate. If they had started printing in mid June they would have cleared the backlog by...

Soo123 wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 01, 2020 10:55 pm

The lockdown is only imposed In England ukba will remain open as it was during the first lockdown I am assuming ceremonies will take place in Scotland and Wales .

There is already lockdown in Wales and Northern Ireland. I think Scotland will follow soon.

Hi all Million dollar question will ceremonies be put on hold I think they will for a month or the lockdown maybe beyond 2 December . weddings and civil partnerships are put on hold so most likely citizenship ceremonies aswell I've checked Cardiff Register and they have ceremonies. I don't think En...

I guess the group ceremonies are out of the picture right now. I still hope we can get the private one although I wouldn't be surprised if the HO and councils will stop everything altogether for a month. I hope I am wrong. Croydon council doesn't provide virtual ceremonies so hey ho, game on. I thi...

I went once more through my responses from HO and they clearly state out there it takes up to 12 weeks to receive the invitation. It’s not said they also print the certificates and send them to the council at the same day. I really believe it will simply be the invitations to be dispatched this wee...

I have emailed my council and wanted to know if they have received certificates again. However the answer was they don’t have my certificate and they are receiving June certificates. They don’t really answer the question if they have have received these June certificates this week as exactly this c...