May 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline

[IndiMarshall]

Eligibility criteria: 5YR HSMP/Tier1 + 1YR ILR
Language criteria met (UK degree, exempt countries, PBS used documents, NARIC, or B1 test):PBS Used docs + life in the UK
Current nationality: India
Method of application: Post
Council name if NCS used:
Date of application: 08/05
Payment method CC/DC, Personal Cheque, Bankers Cheque etc: CC
Date of receipt by UKBA: 10/05
Date of acknowledgment: 16/05 (Received in the Post 19/05)
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 16/05
Date Documents Received with letter indicating application successful: 07/08 (Received in the Post 11/08)
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting

hi Nir..
what is this Application succesful ?

Date Documents Received with letter indicating application successful: 07/08 (Received in the Post 11/08)

Does this mean u got the approval? I did it through NCS..am not sure of postal process.

[murphy1]

Its good to see some approvals:) Congrats guys.

My application received HO 2/5. Phoned today still under consideration Hoping for a miracle in these coming few days.

[Nir]

I may be wrong. Probably the letter I got indicating my application is successful is the approval letter.
The letter also indicated that I 'll be getting the another letter with in 2 weeks, inviting me to the Citizenship Ceremony. I have wait for that letter to book an appointment with local council. I got mixed up with ceremony letter with approval letter

[dks100]

Hi All,

Need a clarification, When I submitted my naturalisation application through NCS, they sent my original LIUK certificate to home office. They said that this certificate will not be returned to you and home office will keep it as it is not needed further.Is this the case with you all.

Regards,

[mandyr]

Hi dks100,

No - our NCS people photocopied all our originals and gave the LIUK certificates back to us.

[IndiMarshall]

I may be wrong. Probably the letter I got indicating my application is successful is the approval letter.
The letter also indicated that I 'll be getting the another letter with in 2 weeks, inviting me to the Citizenship Ceremony. I have wait for that letter to book an appointment with local council. I got mixed up with ceremony letter with approval letter

I think you received the approval letter.. Congrats..

[IndiMarshall]

Hi All,

Need a clarification, When I submitted my naturalisation application through NCS, they sent my original LIUK certificate to home office. They said that this certificate will not be returned to you and home office will keep it as it is not needed further.Is this the case with you all.

Regards,

No thats not correct. They should return all your documents ... this is the reason NCS is present so that your documents are verified by some official as a proof .. so that UKBA ppl dont need to see them again unless they have some serious question..

[kt1mc]

dks100 I got the same message from NCS Bristol - they made copies of all my other documents and returned the originals to me, but with the Life in the UK certificate they sent the original because I would not need it again. They said it would be returned to me if my application was not successful.

[IndiMarshall]

dks100 I got the same message from NCS Bristol - they made copies of all my other documents and returned the originals to me, but with the Life in the UK certificate they sent the original because I would not need it again. They said it would be returned to me if my application was not successful.

Interesting .. it didnt happen with me if I remember correctly.. I have to check that document today..

[shaheen]

Shaheen, any chance we can get the spreadsheet updated

here is the updated sheet guys... not long now and good luck everybody...

[xeel]

dks100 I got the same message from NCS Bristol - they made copies of all my other documents and returned the originals to me, but with the Life in the UK certificate they sent the original because I would not need it again. They said it would be returned to me if my application was not successful.

Interesting .. it didnt happen with me if I remember correctly.. I have to check that document today..

This is something more recent - I applied in February this year, and my LiUK cert was returned to me by NCS (Hillingdon). However, for my wife's application in May at same NCS, the lady told me that the home office now needs the original and it will only be returned in case the application is rejected.

[dapsydudu]

Hi All,

Need a clarification, When I submitted my naturalisation application through NCS, they sent my original LIUK certificate to home office. They said that this certificate will not be returned to you and home office will keep it as it is not needed further.Is this the case with you all.

Regards,

You are right,I applied through Lambeth NCS in June,2014 and they did copies of all my supporting documents except Liuk result,they submitted the original to HO and gave me a copy of it. You should be fine.

[IndiMarshall]

dks100 I got the same message from NCS Bristol - they made copies of all my other documents and returned the originals to me, but with the Life in the UK certificate they sent the original because I would not need it again. They said it would be returned to me if my application was not successful.

Interesting .. it didnt happen with me if I remember correctly.. I have to check that document today..

This is something more recent - I applied in February this year, and my LiUK cert was returned to me by NCS (Hillingdon). However, for my wife's application in May at same NCS, the lady told me that the home office now needs the original and it will only be returned in case the application is rejected.

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[furbs]

Shaheen, any chance we can get the spreadsheet updated

here is the updated sheet guys... not long now and good luck everybody...

can i be added?


Eligibility criteria: 6 years + 1yr ILR
Language criteria met : B1 test
Current nationality: Pakistani
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Rutherglen South Lanarkshire
Date of application: 19/05/2014
Payment method : Debit
Date of receipt by UKBA: 21/05/2014
Date of acknowledgment: 28/05/2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 29/05/2014
Date approval received: 84 days and waiting
Date of ceremony: waiting

[sid_art]

Eligibility criteria: 6 years + 1yr ILR
Language criteria met : UK Degree
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Edinburgh
Date of application: 28/05/2014
Payment method : Cheque
Date of receipt by UKBA: 29/05/2014
Date of acknowledgment: 04/06/2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 06/06/2014
Date approval received: 76 days and waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting

[dks100]

Hi,

Thanks everyone for my clarification regarding LIUK test cerficate retaintion by HO by NCS, It is good to that it is only me where they have sent original certificate to HO. It looks like new rule / requirement in place to retain LIUK certificate by HO.

Regards,

[Serina26]

I am a May applicant. Just wanted to tell everyone to chill a bit. Noone promised us that we would get a decision sooner than 6 months' time. The fact that others got the answers earlier doesn't mean we would too. For all we had been told everywhere is that the decisions take up to 6 months. Noone lied and noone promised anything sooner. We've all got our ILR/PR cards so are free to travel (unless some genius decided to send everyth off directly, rather than use NCS) and that should warm our hearts. Prepare for 6 months and be pleasantly surprised if you get the answer sooner.

Also, there is a backlog of passport applications, so there is no point in stressing over the timeline as you would just join another queue to get your passport and moan over there )) let it go, everything will be fine!

STOP STRESSING OTHERS! If I were an MP whom my constituent contacted, I would tell him to contact me after 6 months and not a day before. UKBA is already under the cosh for messing up passport backlog issue and your letter won't make any difference until 6 months are up.

You sound like you should be a spokesman for the UKBA, lovey! Since when medicrity and incompetence are justifiable. Since you claim to be so chilled out and relaxed about the waiting time, then do you come on here to check people's timelines? £906 is a lot of money to pay for such a shoddy service. Some of us need travel for work, and need a decision to be made in a reasonable time scale.

If you "were an MP"? Well... obviously you are NOT, and will never be judging by the tone of your post. Do us a favour, please. Just Chill out, relax and stop coming on here checking people's timelines and posts because this shows you are not that chilled out! Douche!

[saeumair]

Hi

Just like to get some idea of the time scales of my child registration's or naturalisation

I will put my details of submission of the naturalisation:

Got ILR for me and my wife on 12th June
Child born : 7th June
Submitted application for child on 28th June
Money taken out of account on 8th JUne
Council name if NCS used: Edinburgh Council

I have received the letter from UKBA to say its under progress and thats it

Any ideas why its taking so long ?

thanks

[chrisonrails]

Shaheen, could you add me in too ? my detail can be found on page 16, thx

[IndiMarshall]

Shaheen.. Pl Add me in the list too..

Eligibility criteria: HSMP/Tier1 + 1YR ILR
Language criteria met :NARIC docs + life in the UK
Method of application: NCS
Date of application: 14/05
Payment method CC/DC, Personal Cheque, Bankers Cheque etc: Debit card
Date of acknowledgment: 20/05 (Received in the Post)
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 21/05
Number of days since applying : 91
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting

[Serina26]

Eligibility criteria: 5 years + 1 year ILR
Language criteria met : UK Degree
Method of application: Postal (Via a Solicitor)
Council name if NCS used: N/A
Date of application: 06/05/14
Payment method: Debit card
Date of acknowledgment: 14/05/14
Date of debit or clearance of fees:
Number of days since applying : Around 100 days so far
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting

[sip05ma4]

Hi All,

Could anyone tell if the response from Home office comes by Royal mail.

I applied on 12/05/2014
Acknowledgement 19/05/2014

Waiting time 91 day (still waiting)

I changed my home address after applying and updated the address by using following link

https://eforms.homeoffice.gov.uk/outrea ... pdate.ofml
I have royal mail redirection on from my previous address.

Could any one tell if they use royal mail for sending response in case they haven't changed the address?



I tried calling 0845 010 5200 (no response)

Any help will be much appreciated

Regards,

[anujvyas_19]

Eligibility criteria: Section 3(1) Registration of child born in the UK for parents settled in the UK
Language criteria met : N/A
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: Post
Council name if NCS used: N/A
Date of application: 07/05/14
Payment method : Cheque then received letter from HO that amount was not mentioned in words hence re-send pay slip with Debit cards details
Date of receipt by UKBA: Do not know
Date of acknowledgment: 19-05-2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 29/05/14
Date approval received: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting

Also, got two different letter with two diff Our Ref number and called to 0300 number asking whether they are interlinked or not, response was yes they are linked. When checked status the standard reply case worker is to be provided for application...
Any suggestions please?

[furbs]

Hi All,

Could anyone tell if the response from Home office comes by Royal mail.

I applied on 12/05/2014
Acknowledgement 19/05/2014

Waiting time 91 day (still waiting)

I changed my home address after applying and updated the address by using following link

https://eforms.homeoffice.gov.uk/outrea ... pdate.ofml
I have royal mail redirection on from my previous address.

Could any one tell if they use royal mail for sending response in case they haven't changed the address?





I tried calling 0845 010 5200 (no response)

Any help will be much appreciated

Regards,

I have done this too but seriously worried as read about someone else receiving a reply on the older address despite them informing the HO about new address


And worse I'm going to be changing address again soon

[natarajmb]

Hi All,
Like many of you I'm in same boat here are my details

Eligibility criteria: 5 years + 1yr ILR (Myself + Wife)
Language criteria met : Degree taught in english + LIUK (Same for both)
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: West Berkshire (Newbury)
Date of application: 27/05/2014
Payment method : CC
Date of receipt by UKBA: 28/05/2014
Date of acknowledgment: 03/06/2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 03/06/2014
Date approval received: 77 days and waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting