Eligibility criteria: 5 years Tier 2 General + 1 year ILR.
Language/LIUK Criteria: Life in the UK test + Trinity College B1.
Nationality: Non EU.
Method of application: Online.
Date of application: 14 February 2020
Payment method: Online
Date of acknowledgement: 17 February 2020
Date Biometrics enrolled: 17 February 2020
Date on Approval letter: 16 March 2020
Date of receipt of approval: July 2020 (Nationality support team informed me in April that the decision had been made, received an approval letter after requesting the decision letter in pdf from
NationalitySupportTeamFMT@homeoffice.gov.uk).
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: 13 January 2021 by post (dated 23 December 2020).
Date of Ceremony: 15 January 2021 (Virtual).
Naturalisation certificate arrived: 22 January 2021.
My application is an example that the Home Office does not always notify the applicants about the outcome of their application. Also my application was affected by a "technical error". If you don't hear anything from the Home Office for many months, do reach out for progress update (help line, email, SAR request if nothing else helps).