TIMELINE AFTER NATURALISATION APPLICATION SUBMISSION

eeckard · Post by **eeckard** » Wed May 17, 2006 3:00 pm

Most bizarre us discussing document returns and passports. Firstly my wife called me from home saying my supporting documents arrived home safely, so that makes it 1 week exactly. It says the new british passport will arive shortly.

So perhaps you get you documents back in time. Let me know how it goes.

bonzoman500 · Post by **bonzoman500** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:36 am

eekard, i got my supporting docs back this morning so hopefully i might get the "maroon marvel" nxt week to make my trip to Europe on friday

eeckard · Post by **eeckard** » Sat May 20, 2006 11:17 am

Well done! Yep it will be on your door in the next few days.

Secure delivery tried to deliver my passport yesterday but I was out, so they will redeliver today.

eeckard · Post by **eeckard** » Sat May 20, 2006 6:48 pm

So I made it at last. My final timeline.

Here is the updated timeline:
NCS or Postal : NCS Walthamstow
Date of submission or posting : April 7, 2006
CRITERIA - 5 years (4 Work Permit and 1 ILR)
Date of debit of debit/credit card : April 12 2006
Date of receipt of acknowledgement : April 21 2006 (letter dated April 12 2006)
Date of receipt of approval: 5 May 2006 (letter dated 26 April 2006)
Date of Ceremony: 10 May 2006
Date of appln. for passport: 10 May 2006
Method used: Post Office check and send
Date of Receipt: 20 May 2006

After 9 years in the UK on working holiday visas, visitor visas, TWES, WP and ILR, it sure feels good having this maroon marvel in my hands. Thanks to the crew here for all the advice and help. I will stick around this forum, as now I have to do it all over again for my wife (BC application).

bonzoman500 · Post by **bonzoman500** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:28 pm

eeckard wrote:So I made it at last. My final timeline.

Here is the updated timeline:
NCS or Postal : NCS Walthamstow
Date of submission or posting : April 7, 2006
CRITERIA - 5 years (4 Work Permit and 1 ILR)
Date of debit of debit/credit card : April 12 2006
Date of receipt of acknowledgement : April 21 2006 (letter dated April 12 2006)
Date of receipt of approval: 5 May 2006 (letter dated 26 April 2006)
Date of Ceremony: 10 May 2006
Date of appln. for passport: 10 May 2006
Method used: Post Office check and send
Date of Receipt: 20 May 2006

After 9 years in the UK on working holiday visas, visitor visas, TWES, WP and ILR, it sure feels good having this maroon marvel in my hands. Thanks to the crew here for all the advice and help. I will stick around this forum, as now I have to do it all over again for my wife (BC application).

congrats eekard!! hope u still hang around the forum, and enjoy ur visa -free travels henceforth:-)

bonzoman500 · Post by **bonzoman500** » Tue May 23, 2006 8:31 pm

So I made it at last. My final timeline.

Here is the updated timeline:
NCS or Postal : NCS Barnet
Date of submission or posting : April 12, 2006
CRITERIA - 3 years (Spouse of UK Citizen)
Date of debit of debit/credit card : April 13 2006
Date of receipt of acknowledgement : April 25 2006 (letter dated April 13 2006)
Date of receipt of approval: 8 May 2006 (letter dated 28 April 2006)
Date of Ceremony: 15 May 2006
Date of appln. for passport: 15 May 2006
Method used: Post Office check and send
Date of Receipt: 23 May 2006

Funny thing though, my passport was dropped thru my letter box, i tot it was meant to be secure delivery and signed for...

thanks for all ur comments on this board, think i would have gone to a solicitor to file the application without this board.. thanx once again...

tekaweni · Post by **tekaweni** » Wed May 24, 2006 9:12 am

Bonzoman.

Hmmm.. so your passport was also simply pushed thru your letterbox. Not much point paying the extra for secure delivery option if theyre gonna do that anyway.

Nice one tho, it arrived in time for your trip even. Congrats!

TintinHerge · Post by **TintinHerge** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:02 pm

Hi All

I had my Nat Ceremony in early April and have been postponing applying for the British Passport, for one reason or the other. Its all done now and I will be in the PostOffice sometime this week to apply finally.

Do you think there will be a problem as there is a gap of 2 months between then and now ? Is there a time limit I have to apply for a passport after I get my Naturisation certificate?

Thanks
Tintin

tekaweni · Post by **tekaweni** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 10:25 pm

Nope, no time limit at all.

Anastasia · Post by **Anastasia** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 12:31 pm

Criteria: Based on 5 years stay (4 + 1 yr ILR)
Date of Submission: 02/02/06
Method: Post
Payment Method: Cheque
Debited: 10/02/02
Acknowledgement letter: 14/02/06
06/06/06: Still awaiting

Hey some of you are damn lucky!!

......................

Anastasia

06/06/06

bbdivo · Post by **bbdivo** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 1:22 pm

TintinHerge wrote:I had my Nat Ceremony in early April and have been postponing applying for the British citizenship, for one reason or the other.

Don't understand, you had you ceremony and are postponing applying for British Citizenship? Sounds like you already have it if you have been to your ceremony?

TintinHerge · Post by **TintinHerge** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 3:23 pm

bbdivo wrote: Don't understand, you had you ceremony and are postponing applying for British Citizenship? Sounds like you already have it if you have been to your ceremony?

My mistake - it should read "postponing applying for British Passport".

sasha · Post by **sasha** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:07 pm

Postal application
Date of submission or posting 06/2/06
CRITERIA - 5 yr stay (4 + 1 yr ILR)
Date of receipt of acknowledgement 10/2/06
Date of receipt of approval 14/6/06

It took just over 4 months as stated on HO website at the time of the application. It was a long,long,long journey but here I am, I have come home

Good luck to all of you who are applying.

balaplus · Post by **balaplus** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:59 pm

NCS or Postal : NCS Bracknell
Date of submission : May 26, 2006
CRITERIA - 4 yrs WP + 1 yr
Date of receipt of approval: 6 Jun 2006
Date of Ceremony: 15 Jun 2006
Date of appln. for passport: 16 Jun 2006
Method used: Fast track
Date of Receipt: 20 Jun 2006

tekaweni · Post by **tekaweni** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:16 pm

From end to end in 3 weeks - thats absolutely incredible, has to be some kind of record!

Congrats!

sasa9200 · Post by **sasa9200** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:52 pm

YES ..., it is a record, i been told about him by the lady at bracknell NCS. She said he is a true record. Wish I will be the same.

13/06/2006 AT NCS BRACKNELL
15/06/2006 PAYMENT TAKEN FROM MY CREDIT CARD
20/06/06 H/O LETTER SAYING MY APPLICATION RECEVED DATED 15/06/2006
30/06/2006 received letter saying thank you for your application for citizenship. We are waiting your character check and this may take several months. We will inform you with the decision once we get the information. Letter dated 27/06/2006.

any one know what does this mean?????/

STILL WAITING.........

Post by **John** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:15 pm

Balaplus, that is great news .... using NCS really can speed up the process!

It looks like NCS-submitted applications are getting back to where they were prior to the October 2005 deluge of applications ... people trying to beat the rush ahead of the introduction of the Citizenship Test last November.

balaplus · Post by **balaplus** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:01 am

I was discussing this with some of my friends who have been through the NCs route. We were wondering if aspects like having a mortgage make a difference to decision making process (Do they do credit referencing?)

Although getting passport in 3 days seems to be the norm for fast track applications, I was lucky to get a ceremony slot in short time due to cancellation.

tekaweni · Post by **tekaweni** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:15 am

balaplus, I doubt the Home Office would ever admit to it but clearly some applications are processed much faster than others (even like-for-like NCS applications)

Given the ease with which practically ALL your details can be quickly brought up on a computer screen nowadays, and we know that the Home Office uses credit checking services like Experian and Equifax, I would think that a caseworker would get a warmer feeling about an applicant that appears to be a 'solid citizen' - and seeing a mortgage would certainly contribute to that.

sasa9200 · Post by **sasa9200** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:17 pm

sasa9200 wrote:YES ..., it is a record, i been told about him by the lady at bracknell NCS. She said he is a true record. Wish I will be the same.

13/06/2006 AT NCS BRACKNELL
15/06/2006 PAYMENT TAKEN FROM MY CREDIT CARD
20/06/06 H/O LETTER SAYING MY APPLICATION RECEVED DATED 15/06/2006
30/06/2006 received letter saying thank you for your application for citizenship. We are waiting your character check and this may take several months. We will inform you with the decision once we get the information. Letter dated 27/06/2006.

any one know what does this mean?????/ also the letter was 2 pages and last page say that if ur application approved then ur name ,date of birth ..etc will be such and such, contact us if they are wrong.

any advice???????

STILL WAITING.........

Post by **John** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 9:02 am

sasa9200, have a read of Character Enquiries for BC which might assist you.

Anastasia · Post by **Anastasia** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 1:49 pm

Hi Guys,

Do character checks really take a few months? or is that something they say?

......................

Anastasia

tekaweni · Post by **tekaweni** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:09 pm

Anastasia, character checks sure do extend the waiting period but the length varies. Other posts in this thread show that this can be anything from a few weeks to several months.

The reasons why some applications draw a character check and some not seem vague; my guess is it's random, and just bad luck for those who get delayed by them.

The good news is that it doesnt usually mean there's any problem - as far as I know everyone who's said here that they got chosen for a character check has posted later and said their application was approved.

Anastasia · Post by **Anastasia** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 2:27 pm

thanks!

And yes it sucks to be picked at random for a character check.

.........................

Anastasia

mr_pankaj · Post by **mr_pankaj** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:05 am

NCS or Postal : NCS Redbridge
Date of submission : 13 June 2006
CRITERIA - 4 yrs WP + 1 yr
Date of receipt of approval: 30 Jun 2006
Date of Ceremony: 4 July 2006
Date of appln. for passport: ---
Method used: ---
Date of Receipt: ---

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At long last

Thanks to all in this group.