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mharoon79 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 22, 2020 3:32 pmDear Members,
hope all are doing well
I applied for naturalization on 6th March 2020 which has been approved on 24th June 2020. Neither me nor council received a ceremony letter yet today. I have emailed to HO serveral times but there is no reply till today.
Below extracted from home office email dated 24th June 2020
"However, due to Government advice relating to Coronavirus (COVID 19),
ceremonies are not currently taking place. I am sorry for the delay this will
cause to you acquiring British citizenship and ask for your patience at this time.
We are keeping the situation under constant review and will provide updates on
gov.uk when advice is updated: https://www.gov.uk/citizenship-ceremonies.
When citizenship ceremonies resume, we will send out your invitation and you
will then be able to book a ceremony with your local authority. At your
ceremony, you will be presented with your certificate of British citizenship. "
Advice please
Many thanks
Moa7 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:20 pmIn my experience I've found the information over a call to my council is much more recent and reliable than the standard responses they provided me on email.
For example when I emailed about virtual ceremonies, they sent me a standard response of "we're considering it and will contact applicants accordingly" but when I spoke over the phone they were more helpful and said they're offering virtual ceremonies as well.
Further if you wait for the council to respond you'll be waiting longer since they're trying to adjust people into group ceremonies by default which are free. However if you're planning to do a private one like I am, keep contacting them and specifically saying you want to be booked into a private ceremony. They cost extra but the likelihood is you'll get to do your ceremony earlier than if you were waiting for a group ceremony. Just my thoughts.
My council in North Wales started receiving some certificates and they started Ceremonies with no guests . Not mine yet through
Moa7 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:20 pmIn my experience I've found the information over a call to my council is much more recent and reliable than the standard responses they provided me on email.
For example when I emailed about virtual ceremonies, they sent me a standard response of "we're considering it and will contact applicants accordingly" but when I spoke over the phone they were more helpful and said they're offering virtual ceremonies as well.
Further if you wait for the council to respond you'll be waiting longer since they're trying to adjust people into group ceremonies by default which are free. However if you're planning to do a private one like I am, keep contacting them and specifically saying you want to be booked into a private ceremony. They cost extra but the likelihood is you'll get to do your ceremony earlier than if you were waiting for a group ceremony. Just my thoughts.
Dont set ur expectation high, the Home office is one of the slowest org in the UK, I think the people who got approved during the lockdown will not get their invitation letter for at least a month or 2, if the second wave of the pandemic comes then God know when will we get out certificate print out.Malikg123 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:28 pmMoa7 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 23, 2020 2:20 pmIn my experience I've found the information over a call to my council is much more recent and reliable than the standard responses they provided me on email.
For example when I emailed about virtual ceremonies, they sent me a standard response of "we're considering it and will contact applicants accordingly" but when I spoke over the phone they were more helpful and said they're offering virtual ceremonies as well.
Further if you wait for the council to respond you'll be waiting longer since they're trying to adjust people into group ceremonies by default which are free. However if you're planning to do a private one like I am, keep contacting them and specifically saying you want to be booked into a private ceremony. They cost extra but the likelihood is you'll get to do your ceremony earlier than if you were waiting for a group ceremony. Just my thoughts.
May be but until I don’t received invitation letter I won’t be able to book ceremony I hope next week few people will get invitation letter.
Can not agree more!