TIMELINE AFTER NATURALISATION APPLICATION SUBMISSION

[maveli62]

Application submitted through : POST
Date of submission or posting : 13 Mar 2007
Criteria : Indian, 4 years residence + ILR
Date of debit of debit/credit card : 16 March
Date of receipt of acknowledgement : 21 March
Date of receipt of approval : ---
Ceremony innvitation letter: ---

[champion]

Now how fair is that... He's got 2 years ILR, and my husband (it's his appl) has only got barely seven months (citing special circumstances)... Plus we don't know what effect current/previous nationalities might have on the applications. And the case workers look at each case separately and each situation can be so different in so many ways....

Agree it all depends on how busy our case worker is and on various circumstances.
All I could see that BIA don't care about ILR , All they want (and must have) tick on 1 year ILR box. Your case will be taken but as you said it might required some team leader's review which could delay things by few days.
Even in my case there are some points that might require some one to review application (for example my refree is not from Doctor / Solicitor / Teacher background)

I am sure all these will not be a problem however it might delay things by few days and these few days might add up and ended in months.

However if I want to set a bench mark your case is closer to my case and now it all depends on how effecient our case worker is. It could be possible that your case worker is speedy then mine or may be our case is handling by same case worker.

[maveli62]

champion and SK1
Did you ever get an ack ?

I applied on march 13 and got an ack. I called them las week and they told me they are waiting for Police verification. don't know what that means.

Cheers

Maveli

[champion]

champion and SK1
Did you ever get an ack ?

I applied on march 13 and got an ack. I called them las week and they told me they are waiting for Police verification. don't know what that means.

Cheers

Maveli

I think SK1 got 1 but me and Virtual writer are still waiting. They have not even deducted money from our account.
I think BIA has randomly selected me and virtual writer as 2 applicant to send naturalization in 1st month and acknowledgement in second month.
Just kidding

[PACO]

Dear Nikshala,

First of all congratulations.

I will be applying for my passport in September and since I am a student, I was wondering what problems you encountered.

I was thinking of doing it via the NCS as some of my friends have done it and got their approval letter within a month.

I would really appreciate if you could please let me know the problems you encountered.

Thanks.

[SK1]

champion and SK1
Did you ever get an ack ?

I applied on march 13 and got an ack. I called them las week and they told me they are waiting for Police verification. don't know what that means.

Cheers

Maveli

I think SK1 got 1 but me and Virtual writer are still waiting. They have not even deducted money from our account.
I think BIA has randomly selected me and virtual writer as 2 applicant to send naturalization in 1st month and acknowledgement in second month.
Just kidding

I didn't get ack. letter until I called them to query something, then they told me they posted it to me, but I never received it. They wanted to re-send a copy, but I said nah it's okay, as long as I know they did receive my application and it's logged on their system.

SK1

[maveli62]

Champion and SK1,
Thanks for the reply. looks like it's going to bea long waiting time. Hope one day it will arrive.

[champion]

Today I gave upmy patience and called up BIA to see why they haven't taken payment from my account? Ideally this should have done by now.

Guess what for last 2 hours I am getting the message that they are too busy and asked me to call later (no option to hold the line)

[mon]

Guess what for last 2 hours I am getting the message that they are too busy and asked me to call later (no option to hold the line)

isn't that the most annoying part... and that loophole probably means they can say something along the lines of "no-one is kept on hold longer than 10 minutes" grrr...

still, you've saved me the trouble of ringing them, I'm just going to be patient. okay, I'm going to wait, but not patiently. still no fee taken, they got my application 5 weeks ago

[champion]

I wont give it up. 5 weeks is a lot of time. Call them on 0151 number as 0845 will be charged more
I guess you should select option 3, this should connect to someone quicker. and tell them ohh you are sorry you didn't realised you entered a wrong choice. I am sure you will get your line quickly.

Do it now. I think if you call them that would perhaps send them a reminder that they are late in sending ack. By this way you can also avoid the situation (like Mr. Tejawani's son was in) where they say ohh sorry we have your incorrect bank detail here and thats why we didn't took money off your account.

[champion]

I tried the 0845 number and there is a message saying that they have operational difficulties and they will work only till 6 pm.
Guess something wrong with their software or server and guess thye won't be able to tell me anything about my app.
Hopefully the issue is small and don't delay our application

[virtual-writer]

Update

Application submitted through : POST
Date of submission or posting : 29 Mar 2007
Criteria : EEA family member, 4 years residence + ILR
Date of debit from account: 2 May 2007
Date of receipt of acknowledgement : 28/4, date on the letter: 25 Apr
Date of receipt of approval : ---
Ceremony invitation letter: ---

[champion]

Great congrates.
I guess if you get an ack letter then most likely your documents etc are fine.
They have't even taken any money from my account.
Hope it wont be too late

[virtual-writer]

I guess if you get an ack letter then most likely your documents etc are fine.

Actually, no. They check what documents you've sent and write a list of them in the acknowledgement letter, but that doesn't mean anything, really.

This is our second application. Last time they sent the acknowledgement letter quicker, and the decision came about four months after the application was made. The respons was negative (too early, and we had not cited special circumstances ) and they said they had not looked at the evidences or even the application, so could not tell whether a subsequent claim would be granted approval or not.

[champion]

I am worried now as havent heard anything from them (except that they did recieved my app)

I am checking my Card every hour (online) to see if they deducted money.
Unfortunately no news.
I can't even say to myself that no news is a good news.
I apericiate mon who is waiting for 5 weeks to get the ack or money deducted.

Hopefully you will get positive outcome within 2 months.

[omwabo]

Postal or NCS: NCS (appointment on 07/03)
Date of submission or posting : 08 Mar 07
CRITERIA - 4yr WP + 1 yr ILR
Date of debit of debit/credit card: credit card
Date on acknowledgement Letter: 14 Mar 07
Date of receipt of acknowledgement Letter: 14 Mar 07
Date of approval : 21 march 2007
Date of receipt of approval : 04 apr 2007
Date of Ceremony: 16th apr 2007
Date of appln. for passport ? 17th Apr2007
Method used ? postal
Date of Receipt? 29th apr 2007

Its been a long journey. All in all my only advice and this is out of good experience.....use the NCS. I found out how it made my application easy. Brent council were great!

[maveli62]

I am checking my Card every hour (online) to see if they deducted money.

I thought all credit cards get updated in the night. It is not a real "real time" postings.

[champion]

I think it depends. in some cases it reflect straightway (but under pending)
and some it is not. I may be wrong though

[CstrM8]

I am sooooooooo happy I got my much-waited approval letter from the Home Office yesterday…. finally at last!!!! So I just thought I should share my timeline with everybody in the forum….

NCS or Postal..............................................NCS
If NCS, which centre...................................Hampshire
Date of NCS Appointment..........................27 March 2007
Date of submission or posting..................27 March 2007
CRITERIA...................................................5 yrs stay (4yrsWP+1yrILR)
Date of receipt by HO via Royal Mail Tracking...................28 March 2007
Date when payment was taken from credit card................04 April 2007
Date of Acknowledgment Letter.........................04 April 2007
Date of Receipt of Aknowledgement..................13 April 2007
Date of Approval Letter.............................20 April 2007
Date of Receipt of Approval Letter............02 May 2007
Date of Citizenship Ceremony............14 June 2007 (I can’t wait!)
Date of appln. for passport............perhaps the day after the citizenship ceremony
Method used...........................N/A yet
Date of Receipt.......................N/A yet

Many thanks to mon, Firm Believer, music & tekaweni for sharing their experiences, private messages, etc. CHEERS!!!!

I hope that by late summer I can book a holiday to go around Europe without needing a Schengen visa!!!

[champion]

I am so glad seeing people getting their aproval letter. Hopefully it will take some worklaod off my case worker
Good luck

[Dawie]

I am sooooooooo happy I got my much-waited approval letter from the Home Office yesterday…. finally at last!!!! So I just thought I should share my timeline with everybody in the forum….

NCS or Postal..............................................NCS
If NCS, which centre...................................Hampshire
Date of NCS Appointment..........................27 March 2007
Date of submission or posting..................27 March 2007
CRITERIA...................................................5 yrs stay (4yrsWP+1yrILR)
Date of receipt by HO via Royal Mail Tracking...................28 March 2007
Date when payment was taken from credit card................04 April 2007
Date of Acknowledgment Letter.........................04 April 2007
Date of Receipt of Aknowledgement..................13 April 2007
Date of Approval Letter.............................20 April 2007
Date of Receipt of Approval Letter............02 May 2007
Date of Citizenship Ceremony............14 June 2007 (I can’t wait!)
Date of appln. for passport............perhaps the day after the citizenship ceremony
Method used...........................N/A yet
Date of Receipt.......................N/A yet

Many thanks to mon, Firm Believer, music & tekaweni for sharing their experiences, private messages, etc. CHEERS!!!!

I hope that by late summer I can book a holiday to go around Europe without needing a Schengen visa!!!

Any reason why you're waiting so long for your citizenship ceremony? I organised my ceremony for the day after I got my approval letter. I really couldn't wait.

[tekaweni]

Some councils have fewer resources or high demand. My local made me wait 6 weeks for my ceremony, but at least once the approval letter has been received you can relax knowing it's all on 'cruise control' to the finish line!

[Firm Believer]

Well done and congratulations. I'm well and truly pleased for you. I hate to say I told you so - but I will anyway, lol. I told you so!

All the best.

I am sooooooooo happy I got my much-waited approval letter from the Home Office yesterday…. finally at last!!!! So I just thought I should share my timeline with everybody in the forum….

NCS or Postal..............................................NCS
If NCS, which centre...................................Hampshire
Date of NCS Appointment..........................27 March 2007
Date of submission or posting..................27 March 2007
CRITERIA...................................................5 yrs stay (4yrsWP+1yrILR)
Date of receipt by HO via Royal Mail Tracking...................28 March 2007
Date when payment was taken from credit card................04 April 2007
Date of Acknowledgment Letter.........................04 April 2007
Date of Receipt of Aknowledgement..................13 April 2007
Date of Approval Letter.............................20 April 2007
Date of Receipt of Approval Letter............02 May 2007
Date of Citizenship Ceremony............14 June 2007 (I can’t wait!)
Date of appln. for passport............perhaps the day after the citizenship ceremony
Method used...........................N/A yet
Date of Receipt.......................N/A yet

Many thanks to mon, Firm Believer, music & tekaweni for sharing their experiences, private messages, etc. CHEERS!!!!

I hope that by late summer I can book a holiday to go around Europe without needing a Schengen visa!!!

[Dawie]

Some councils have fewer resources or high demand. My local made me wait 6 weeks for my ceremony, but at least once the approval letter has been received you can relax knowing it's all on 'cruise control' to the finish line!

I did pay £75 extra for a private ceremony though...it was worth every penny! The wait would have done my head in.

[tdpff3]

My council did not have private ceremony facility, so the only option we had was to wait for the available date given by them for public ceremony.