January 2014 - Naturalization Application Timeline

[uknotts]

Eligibility criteria: 5 years WP + 1 year ILR
Language criteria met : English University degree + Life in the UK
Method of application: NCS
Date of application: 02-01-2014
Payment method : Personal Cheque
Date of receipt by UKBA: 06-01-2014 assumed
Date of acknowledgment: 27th Jan (letter dated 23th Jan)
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 27/01/2014 - account balance dropped by £874.
Date approval received: 22/02/2014 dated 17/02/2014.
Date of ceremony: TBA

Called HO on 08706067766 before receiving the letter. I found the staff is quite helpful and they will tell you if you application is in process or has been completed, and roughly when you should get the letter. As myself, if you are paranoid on your application, then maybe calling them is a good option.

Anyway, best wishes to everyone here and thanks for this forum.

[baji15]

Eligibility criteria: Tier 1 (5 years) + ILR ( 1 Year )
Language criteria met : NARIC + Life in the UK
Method of application: NCS (Redbridge)
Date of application: 03/01/2014
Payment method: Credit Card (CC)
Date of receipt by UKBA: 06/01/2014 (Royal mail secure delivery)
Date of acknowledgment: 24/01/2014 ( Received on 29/01/2014 )
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 24/01/2014
Date approval received: 16/01/2014 ( Received on 22/01/2014
Date of ceremony: TBA



Good luck to those who are still waiting.
Thanks to the forum. you guys are amazing.!

[anotherbrickinthewall]

[quote="baji15"]Eligibility criteria: Tier 1 (5 years) + ILR ( 1 Year )
Language criteria met : NARIC + Life in the UK
Method of application: NCS (Redbridge)
Date of application: 03/01/2014
Payment method: Credit Card (CC)
Date of receipt by UKBA: 06/01/2014 (Royal mail secure delivery)
Date of acknowledgment: 24/01/2014 ( Received on 29/01/2014 )
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 24/01/2014
[b]Date approval received: 16/01/2014 ( Received on 22/01/2014[/b]
Date of ceremony: TBA



Good luck to those who are still waiting.
Thanks to the forum. you guys are amazing.![/quote]

wow...03/01 to 16/01, that's two weeks from date of application to approval. HO must've pre-approved your application. congrats!

[soniaa84]

Eligibility criteria: Tier 1 (5 years) + ILR ( 1 Year )
Language criteria met : NARIC + Life in the UK
Method of application: NCS (Redbridge)
Date of application: 03/01/2014
Payment method: Credit Card (CC)
Date of receipt by UKBA: 06/01/2014 (Royal mail secure delivery)
Date of acknowledgment: 24/01/2014 ( Received on 29/01/2014 )
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 24/01/2014
Date approval received: 16/01/2014 ( Received on 22/01/2014
Date of ceremony: TBA



Good luck to those who are still waiting.
Thanks to the forum. you guys are amazing.!

Are you sure tat it is 22/1/14 or 22/2/14

[silverdiablo7]

Eligibility criteria: Spouse of BC + ILE
Language criteria met (UK degree, exempt countries, PBS used documents, NARIC, or B1 test): C1 + LIUK
Current nationality: Commonwealth nation
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Glasgow
Date of application: 6/1/13
Payment method CC/DC, Personal cheque, Bankers cheque etc: DC
Date of receipt by UKBA: 8/1/13
Date of acknowlegment: 27/1/13 (dated 24/1/13)
Date of debit or clearance of fees: Balance dropped on 27/1/13
Date approval received: TBA
Date of ceremony: TBA

Wishing all applicants ATB!

Update:
Called UKBA today on the 0870 number, was told appl. is in process and would receive correspondence in 2 weeks time. Dont know how it works actually as they gave me a time frame while appl. still ''in process''.

Update:
Approval received 22/2/13 dated 20/2/13
Good luck to all those waiting and thanks or the guys here with their advises.
will update with Ceremony date once arranged.

[milan69]

HO seems to be working on Saturday and Sunday judging by the dates on approval letter.

[jmehmud]

This forum is really good in terms of helping people by sharing their experiences or even just guiding them in the right direction but at the same time I am really surprised that I have asked a quest quite few times but it seems nobody bothers to reply or maybe people are just ignoring.

[baji15]

Eligibility criteria: Tier 1 (5 years) + ILR ( 1 Year )
Language criteria met : NARIC + Life in the UK
Method of application: NCS (Redbridge)
Date of application: 03/01/2014
Payment method: Credit Card (CC)
Date of receipt by UKBA: 06/01/2014 (Royal mail secure delivery)
Date of acknowledgment: 24/01/2014 ( Received on 29/01/2014 )
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 24/01/2014
Date approval received: 16/01/2014 ( Received on 22/02/2014
Date of ceremony: TBA



Good luck to those who are still waiting.
Thanks to the forum. you guys are amazing.!

Are you sure tat it is 22/1/14 or 22/2/14

@soniaa84, Oops sorry typo it is 22/02/14 ( received today morning)

[milan69]

mehmud ,I applied on the 28th of January and no one has contacted my referees so far as I am sure they would have told me. For whatever reason I haven't come across anyone on this forum so far that has had HO contact the referees.

[jmehmud]

Thanks alot Milan69. Your reply is very much appreciated. I applied on same date. It is not strange that HO is not contacting our referees or may be people on forum are just not sharing this experience.

[milan69]

I came quite a few times across posts where people were concerned about HO contacting referees but as I said no one so far has confirmed the contact. HO does check with police and I believe that is the first step, but with referees it probably varies from case to case.

[jmehmud]

So Milan69! what is your analysis about outcome of your application? What do you think until what date your approval letter should have been received? I am just taking your opinion because my application was submitted on same day.

[milan69]

In the past 10 days about 50% of December applications have been resolved. I expect from next week we should see rise in resolved January applications and with beginning of March they should be rolling in.
If this rate continues I would be optimistic to predict that we might receive our approval between 10-15 March which would be about 6 weeks from date of receipt of application.

[NOG]

Eligibility criteria: 10 years + ILR
Language criteria met : Life in the UK + UK degree
Method of application: NCS Aldershot
Date of application: 02/01/2014
Payment method: Debit Card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 03/01/2014
Date of acknowledgement letter: 23/01/2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 24/01/2014
Date approval received: 17/02/2014 ( Received on 20/02/2014)
Date of ceremony: 12/05/2014 - however, I will try to get this changed to an earlier private ceremony.

A Big Thanks to everyone on this forum who helped!

[sgaba]

Eligibility criteria: 3 yrs Tier1 + 2 yrs Tier 1 + 1 yr ILR
Language criteria met : ILR after Oct 2012 + NARIC Letter + PBS
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Lewisham
Date of application: 09-01-2014
Payment method: Debit card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 11-01-2014
Date of aknowlegment: 29-01-2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 27-01-2014
Date approved : 18/02/2014
Date approval received: 21/02/2014
Date of ceremony: TBA

Thank you everyone for sharing your timelines. Anyone has any experience in booking citizenship ceremony in Lewisham London ?

[jmehmud]

Hi milan69! considering last few cases, I have noticed HO took 18 days to process these applications. Do you think we should expect our result in 3rd or 4th week of Feb. Will it be a realistic thought or like you said yesterday we should wait till mid of March?

[milan69]

Well, from tomorrow last week of February starts but I would be very surprised if get our approvals (but very happy as well). Nevertheless, HO have stepped up and December approvals are poring in and if they continue with this tempo we might get ours sooner than we think. I still think it is realistic to expect late January applications to be resolved around 10-15 of March.

[jmehmud]

Fair analysis. Thanks milan69 for your quick reply mate

[trigger]

January 2014 Applications Update
Since the last update on 19 February:

• Applicants: 92
  Fee Debits: 89 (~ 97%) (pending: s4sam, MY, KyleDM)
  Approvals: 14 (~ 15%) (congratulations on newest approvals for Bruno30, NOG, DevB, kiranchinnu, safa_bb, SameerBhagawatUk, uknotts, baji15, keepsim, silverdiablo7, sgaba)
  
  Average waiting time between Fee Debit and Approval Letter Date (FD2ALD): ~ 17 weekdays** (December's FD2ALD is a little over 17 weekdays)
  Average waiting time between Fee Debit and Approval Letter Receipt (FD2ALR): ~ 21 weekdays** (December's FD2ALR is approximately 23 weekdays)
  ** This metric is entirely down to individual circumstances, such as complexity of application and 2nd class post receipt time, to name but two.

The following applicant timelines have been excluded since date of receipt of one's application by the UKBA is the effective application date:

• dadageer - a February 2014 applicant
  skyturk - another February 2014 applicant
  syedfarhatraza - not enough data, but guessing this should be a December 2013 application

Here are the 92 applicants so far, please let me know of any errors or omissions (hyperlinks to past approvals):

• w/c 30 December (excluding December 2013 applicants) - 7 applicants
  kiranchinnu
  NOG
  SameerBhagawatUk
  Bruno30
  Peachoct6
  Captain_underpants
  For_fam

• w/c 6 January - 21 applicants
  magedezzeldin
  uknotts
  phoki
  baji15
  sylm_2000
  s4sam
  safa_bb
  keepsim
  t0mmy
  27pence
  Newme123
  silverdiablo7
  muf
  shiva321
  amthekkel
  farrukhnizam
  rw1perth
  Bash1oo
  mandykan
  spui
  sgaba

• w/c 13 January - 30 applicants
  DayDream
  trigger
  jayowo
  DevB
  splashing
  MY
  soniaa84
  sidhujazz
  freemen_17
  guavaguy
  vv129
  teenboy
  Zeeshan123
  tundefaboye
  slav
  Jegdis5
  M2008
  murmur
  chir
  eskalebur
  kiwiana76
  tanere
  shoppsydudu
  rickyrafe777
  varre_v
  winchesterguy
  h-khan
  hot_rock_tx
  aquarius
  daniel212

• w/c 20 January - 21 applicants
  alex_shvjac
  ei
  khurrambutt
  ITGraduate
  gdyoung
  kir60
  Camillinhadantas
  ambitions_high
  OmerMohammed
  abbey84
  darkangel14
  fragnance19
  abdik1980
  statician
  t-cham
  speaker40
  phospholipid
  hina zaheer
  isomb
  Jo1
  latansingh

• w/c 27 January - 13 applicants
  Somudro
  dabbler80
  KyleDM
  nbweb
  bachy
  amitc
  cofe
  sabster
  milan69
  jmehmud
  tab0287
  bouqet777
  guiness

Below is a representation of January 2014 data (admittedly not as nice as p2kin's Tuesday graphs in the October 2013 and November 2013 timeline topics), but I think this gives a general idea of progress thus far. I have not represented fee acknowledgement percentages since this metric would have been most useful for the October and November backlogs - this is a little redundant due to the 97% fee debit figure for January.

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To all January 2014 applicants - please try and keep your timelines updated and accurate as it benefits the topic and others when you do so. Relevant update posts (like this one) in my signature to make them easy to track.

As always, thanks to amthekkel, p2kin, jotter, TTOE and tier_2_applicant for their data and formats.

[milan69]

Great work trigger...thank you for the effort

[anotherbrickinthewall]

92 applicants in January compared to 284 in October (i.e. based on the data in this forum) gives an indication of the spike in applications in sept/oct.

[majamcr]

Eligibility criteria: 5 years residence, non-EEA spouse of EEA/naturalised British citizen
Language criteria met: CPE
Method of application: self/postal
Date of application: 07/01/2014
Payment method: credit card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 08/01/2014 (Royal Mail Tracking)
Date of acknowledgment: 28/01/2014 (dated 25/01/2014)
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 25/01/2014
Date approval received: waiting
Date of ceremony: waiting

[sgaba]

Eligibility criteria: 3 yrs Tier1 + 2 yrs Tier 1 + 1 yr ILR
Language criteria met : ILR after Oct 2012 + NARIC Letter + PBS
Current nationality: Indian
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Lewisham
Date of application: 09-01-2014
Payment method: Debit card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 11-01-2014
Date of aknowlegment: 29-01-2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 27-01-2014
Date approved : 18/02/2014
Date approval received: 21/02/2014
Date of ceremony: 06/03/2014

Thank you everyone for sharing your timelines and word of advice.

[Somudro]

@sgaba, congrats!

[happylad]

Eligibility criteria:2 years residence + 2 years spouse of BC + ILR
Language criteria met:Life in the uk +C1 English exam
Method of application:Self
Date of application:06.01.2014
Payment method:Debit Card
Date of receipt by UKBA: 07.01.2014 RM tracked
Date of aknowlegment: 24.01.14 receipt letter(29.01.2014)
Date of debit or clearance of fees:24.01.14
Date approval received:TBC
Date of ceremony:TBC