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Hi,
I have applied for my naturalisation on 4th Nov 2015 at NCS Swindon which was recieved by homeoffice on the very next day(5th Nov 2015). However, the payment still not debited from my account.

Not sure whether this is the case for the rest of November 2015 applicants. I rang the home office and they said to wait for next 5 weeks as they are quite busy now.

Please can anyone who applied in November 2015, reply to this post.

nananu wrote:Hi,
I have applied for my naturalisation on 4th Nov 2015 at NCS Swindon which was recieved by homeoffice on the very next day(5th Nov 2015). However, the payment still not debited from my account.

Not sure whether this is the case for the rest of November 2015 applicants. I rang the home office and they said to wait for next 5 weeks as they are quite busy now.

Please can anyone who applied in November 2015, reply to this post.

current timeline states today they are taking payment of people who submitted there application on 31st of oct,

I submitted my application on 9th of nov. If you check NOV timelines, there is only one person whose payment has been debited. The OP applied using the new service of naturalisation and passport together

My wife's application was sent on 27th Oct and received on 28th by Home office. Her money got debited on 17th Oct and got her biometric invitation yesterday. Be patient.

I had applied on 02 Nov 2015 and my payment hasn't gone through aswell, I think that's the case with all Nov applicants. Let's wait and watch.

sonub4ualt wrote:My wife's application was sent on 27th Oct and received on 28th by Home office. Her money got debited on 17th Oct and got her biometric invitation yesterday. Be patient.

That is not possible

I have applied back in June and money wasn't taken as well for long period of time. I was waiting for almost three months till the time I received all my documents back with a letter saying that there was a problem with my check. HO sent me a letter saying that there is an issue with my check and I need to resolve it within 2 weeks. Apparently they sent it using 2nd class via Royal Mail. Royal Mail lost my letter or delivered this to the wrong address. I was impossible to prove for me at that time that I never received this letter from HO.
I had to reapply again in October obviously and as a result everything was postponed!!!
Just sharing with you guys my experiences and I think you need to be cautious that if the money is not going out from your account it could an issue... may be it worth to contact them again and try to find out if everything ok with your bank details etc....

Mikalai_S wrote:I have applied back in June and money wasn't taken as well for long period of time. I was waiting for almost three months till the time I received all my documents back with a letter saying that there was a problem with my check. HO sent me a letter saying that there is an issue with my check and I need to resolve it within 2 weeks. Apparently they sent it using 2nd class via Royal Mail. Royal Mail lost my letter or delivered this to the wrong address. I was impossible to prove for me at that time that I never received this letter from HO.
I had to reapply again in October obviously and as a result everything was postponed!!!
Just sharing with you guys my experiences and I think you need to be cautious that if the money is not going out from your account it could an issue... may be it worth to contact them again and try to find out if everything ok with your bank details etc....

before you contact homeoffice , its better if you contact your bank to confirm if an attempt was made for the payment by home office. Bank do have records for payments thats been declined . I contacted my bank in the morning to check if an attempt was made to take the payment by home office for a sum of 1005 pounds and they confirmed me no attempt has been made yet

I am also a November applicant and payment has not been taken yet. According to the timeline November payments has not been started yet for most of applicants except one. I applied on 4th Nov. And still waiting for payment to be taken. But I think it will b starting from next week hopefully. Don't worry guys we are in a same boat. Another thing I noticed that British spouse and tier1,tier2, 5 year cats.
applicants are given priority.

fbutt50 wrote: Another thing I noticed that British spouse and tier1,tier2, 5 year cats.
applicants are given priority.

I don't think there's any kind of priority list.
My husband only got his approval yesterday, as spouse of BC, but applied on 11th June. Took over 5 months for straight forward case.

Another point that was mentioned when I was at the NCS the other day was that they had had a larger volume of applications being submitted before the acceptable English language qualifications change came into effect this month. So it's likely that there may be a slow down in processing applications as a result of this as well.

Have you ever heard they are doing fast job to clear the backlog? I have been hearing about this backlog from last 15 years with giving different lame excuses and it's never been cleared. We pay large amount of money to receive at least minimun service quality.