TLScontact website for booking naturalisation appointment

[fanaqvi]

Dear immigration experts,
I have completed and submitted naturalisation form and trying to book an appointment. I was redirected to TLScontact website. In my past applications I was redirected to UKVCAS website. Has anything changed recently redireting me to a different unexpected website.
Secondly, it's showing following centre to be closest from my workplace.
Location: London (Gee Street) UKVCAS Service Point

However, a simple google to find address suggested that this centre closed permanently. The search on UKVCAS site doesn't even show this centre. This is so confusing.
Can you please confirm -
1. TLScontact is the correct website to book an appointment
2. "London (Gee Street) UKVCAS Service Point" is an existing and valid centre

[contorted_svy]

UKVCAS is no longer used for biometric appointments. Applicants need to use TLScontact from now on.

[fler77]

1. TLScontact is the correct website to book an appointment
2. "London (Gee Street) UKVCAS Service Point" is an existing and valid centre

1. Yes
2. Yes, I just attended an appointment there myself.

[zeroday]

What were the general availability like? I'm living in London and wanted to check if it is possible to find a slot for the next day?

How long did the entire process take? Was it better than SopraSteria?

[fler77]

I booked my appointment at the beginning of October and availability was very limited for London. I don't know if the situation has improved since then, but I would expect it to be more competitive for a while. When SopraSteria phased out their systems they didn't release new appointments anymore, so there's a backlog of applicants that wanted to get appointments over the last two or more weeks but couldn't. They all will now need to be served by TLS. I would say if you were trying to find an express appointment you'd have to be very lucky to get something for next day. I booked express but the shortest wait was still 2 weeks.

The process went well and they were very organised. Took me a bit less than 30 minutes (I had uploaded my documents before the appointment, so only my passport was scanned). I can't comment on SopraSteria as I have not used them before.

[zeroday]

This is very helpful. Thanks a lot.

[tascott]

I just tried booking and the earliest appointments avaliable in any of the london centres was the 24th october (so 8 day wait). And this was a prime appointment that I had to pay £60 for.