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by LOD » Thu Mar 10, 2022 3:00 pm
HI All
I have been reading this forum for a year. It is a well of information !..I just wanted to contribute with my timeline:
• Applied on June 2020 / Irish Spouse stamp 4
• Letter asking for documents August 2020
• Letter stating application being processed October 2021
• Letter requesting Garda Vetting online. January 2022 / sent out the form but they never sent me a link to fill the vetting.
• Email sent to INIS asking how far along is my application/ answer “ is being processed “
* March 10th letter sent by solicitor FOI and first warning
* approval letter Thurs 10th March
I was absolutely fuming about the long wait. I had asked a solicitor and I was told to keep waiting , I was told this twice. After reading this forum I realized that people were requesting FOI’, asking their solicitors to send warning letters, JR and the rest. I was wondering why my own solicitor would not go for this but instead asked me to keep waiting and wasting my time.
I decided to go to a different solicitor, he is from Pakistan and the right off the bat struck me as someone who was proactive and understood how hard is to wait for an answer. He guaranteed me he will get my citizenship in 2 weeks or else before June 2022.
I went to him on Monday and that very day he requested the FOI which he go the next day. Today is Thursday and I have received my citizenship letter !!...
What I’m trying to say is that it does pay to spend money to get help to move your case forward, I know for a fact now that my case was sleeping on someone’s desk. I had sent an email on January asking INIS to tell me how far along was my file, they replied just 2 weeks ago telling me “still processing “.
It seems that had I not got my solicitor to ask for FOI and warned about JR I could have still been waiting until June 2022..
A few extra points:
I have been in the country 11 years.
NB : I was asked for the garda vetting never go the link and still got my approval .