Cermony date after Citizenship Aplication approved.

[Legend1]

Hi Mods,
Hope this message find you all well.

My Naturalisation application was approved yesterday, when i applied for citizenship application, for ceremony i have mentioned Surrey Council, while i checked for dates to booked for ceremony its showing in November no earlier dates , instead of that can i changed my ceremony location to another town ? If yes what are the procedure.
Thanks in advance

[alterhase58]

Tell the council, they will return your certificate to the Home office and they will arrange with the other council.

Clearly this adds complexity and time and you may not necessarily end up with an earlier ceremony.

Have you considered a private ceremony? Costs extra but could be much quicker.

[contorted_svy]

Hi Mods,
Hope this message find you all well.

My Naturalisation application was approved yesterday, when i applied for citizenship application, for ceremony i have mentioned Surrey Council, while i checked for dates to booked for ceremony its showing in November no earlier dates , instead of that can i changed my ceremony location to another town ? If yes what are the procedure.
Thanks in advance

Usually, the answer is no. You declared the council when you applied and they will be the ones to administer the ceremony. You can ask your council if this would be possible, or wait until November to become British.

[Legend1]

Tell the council, they will return your certificate to the Home office and they will arrange with the other council.

Clearly this adds complexity and time and you may not necessarily end up with an earlier ceremony.

Have you considered a private ceremony? Costs extra but could be much quicker.

Yes looking this as 2nd option. Called the home office been provided with email , so lets see if that make any change otherwise i will have to book a private ceremony.
Thanks for your reaponse

[pb3000]

Yes looking this as 2nd option. Called the home office been provided with email , so lets see if that make any change otherwise i will have to book a private ceremony.
Thanks for your reaponse

I feel your pain.

My wife booked her Surrey ceremony around 3 weeks ago and at the time the first free slot available was during the last week of October. However if she was willing pay £170 then there was only a 2 week wait.

During her citizenship journey, we turned down opportunities to pay for priorty service for FLR, ILR and biometrics which would have totalled almost £2000.

Similarly we'll be going the free route this time around. The passing of the time is excruciatingly slow in this case though

If you do have any success with the Home Office in changing to another borough then please be sure to update the thread. It would be most valuable to the board.