MrBrilliant wrote:
Actually you don't understand at all. Maybe read my post again in full, or ask someone to help you read it if you have trouble. As I mentioned, "citizenship is a privilege not a right" is completely off-topic.
Interesting reply.
When you ask "Why does it take too long?" Then you need to find the logic of what is a Naturalisation process first, then you need to see what causes delays, then you reach your logical conclusion, instead of closing avenues of thoughts we need to learn first what is Naturalisation. So lets start again,
while granting a privilege, someone can do as many checks as they like, and yes, like it or not, they can take as much time as they want.
This is
not a visa application where someone's human rights are prone to be violated and hence why, there is
no such right of appeal against Naturalisation decisions either.
But since we are all speculating here, let me also say again the Govt can do whatever in their power, to satisfy themselves that they are making the right decision. It is also possible that e.g. the applicant
person A crossed a red light and was caught, but forgot to add any DVLA record, or in more complex scenario, person A is living in Manchester and have a referee from USA and another British Citizen but living in Kent. Home Office sends a fact-checking request to other departments, say, Electorole in USA or in Kent in UK or Person A has moved houses quite a lot, so fact-checking is about person A himself, to see if everything checks out.
Continuing the speculation, while such checks are carried out on application deemed "straightforward" and "simple" in the eyes of person A the applicant, it is possible that Caseworker puts the file in "awaiting response" box and moves on to next application in line, deals with that application and moves on, and so on and so forth. Then as-and-when replies come back they are put in "replies" box, and once current file is completed, Caseworker chronologically goes through "replies" box and digs out corresponding file from "awaiting response" box and processes that file further. It is also possible Caseworker puts aside a time of day, or a few days in week, to sift through these "awaiting responses" files.
This above lengthy process is for one (person A's) file only, now expand this to thousands upon thousands of applications received by Home Office, every month.
And, in fact, with a
small sample tellings us they have approximately 7,000 applications per month. I'd not worry if we are a "bit delayed" than the time we'd like "our" stuff to be looked at.
