May 2014 - Naturalisation Application Timeline

[weeman1978]

No It means they have just touched it and started checks ....You can never know when they will finish the checks!!!!!!!!!

Soo true.. I really have a feeling that most of our application are just siiting there collecting dust.

[Sportsman]

That's usually a good sign that your approval will come right after that.

I can confirm Julian is right here and its a encouraging sign. In my case HO asked my wife to visit their Liverpool office for a friendly discussion interview to confirm her English speaking capability and after that interview HO sent her approval in 3 weeks time. That shows HO has no other objection and just want to confirm that particular point only rest is all okay.

[dalvin]

14 May applicant and still no success. I requested my documents back and when i received them begining January 2015, there was a letter attached informing me that my case hasn't been assinged to a case worker yet which is surprising. i hve contacted the HO on several times and was informed that they are waiting for checks to be completed. All confusing at the moment.

Administrators - can you please post the spreadsheet so we can see how it looks like now.

Thanks

[nationalityman]

I applied in May and still waiting

[[iD]]

14 May applicant and still no success. I requested my documents back and when i received them begining January 2015, there was a letter attached informing me that my case hasn't been assinged to a case worker yet which is surprising. i hve contacted the HO on several times and was informed that they are waiting for checks to be completed. All confusing at the moment.

Administrators - can you please post the spreadsheet so we can see how it looks like now.

Thanks

It was so obvious that they were lying and making stuff up about necessary checks just to get people off their back. If you have their response in writing telling you or your mp that your application was down for necessary checks and now a letter confirming if it hadn't even been allocated to a caseworker then I would say you should lodge an official complaint and involve your mp in it.
They shouldn't get away with it. People should challenge them.

[amjad6226]

Its not annoying if they said your application is not allocated to the caseworker because they never can allocate an application to any caseworker until his/ her checks been completed.

[stokbrig]

Its not annoying if they said your application is not allocated to the caseworker because they never can allocate an application to any caseworker until his/ her checks been completed.

How do you know ?where you got your information from?

[[iD]]

Its not annoying if they said your application is not allocated to the caseworker because they never can allocate an application to any caseworker until his/ her checks been completed.

I'm sure the checks are carried out AFTER the case has been allocated to a caseworker as s/he would be the one requesting the checks.

[Vsharma]

Just an update. I applied on the 7 May and received my approval letter on 18jan. Good luck to all of you.

[mhsadique]

Congratulation......

Just an update. I applied on the 7 May and received my approval letter on 18jan. Good luck to all of you.

[dalvin]

Just an update. I applied on the 7 May and received my approval letter on 18jan. Good luck to all of you.

The 18th of January was a Sunday - do they have a sunday delivery arranged?

[Julian11]

FYI - don't recall seeing this posted here before

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ ... 033753.pdf

[Samaralady]

FYI - don't recall seeing this posted here before

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ ... 033753.pdf

I'm loving it, that's roughly 65% which have been dealt with, didn't they state somewhere that their target was 95% within 6 month?

Incompetent, useless bunch of ... (please insert word of own choice here).

[mario2014]

The Home Office's response is as follows:

Thank you for your email correspondence of 26 January on behalf of Mr xxxxxxx of xxxxxX, about his application for naturalisation as a British Citizen.

Mr xxxxxxx naturalisation application ofJune 2014 remains under consideration by our caseworking team.

The Independent Chief Inspector’s report of 11 December 2014 highlighted that some individuals had not been subject to sufficient scrutiny in relation to their immigration history. We have now revised our guidance and are looking at those cases in detail to assess the impact these changes will have on the outcome of the application for British Citizenship. Due to the additional checks required these cases will take a little longer to consider. We apologise for the delay Mr xxxxxx has experienced in receiving his decision.

[nationalityman]

Today I called HO and guess what I was told today that after 8 months my case was not even assign to the case worker .
When I ask him that why I was told that it is under consideration and he replied that it's is underconsidaration .

My God how can they do this...... :/

[brightlight]

Today I called HO and guess what I was told today that after 8 months my case was not even assign to the case worker .
When I ask him that why I was told that it is under consideration and he replied that it's is underconsidaration .

My God how can they do this...... :/

Sorry to hear this.
It happens to many of us including me.

I really wanna have
eyes of God to see, what actually these homeoffice case worker are doing with our files.

I also been told assigned, not assigned, being checked etc. I have come to the complaining point. After complaining, the could onot answer us, we have to wait for the check.
Sorry for delay. Even the minister of immigration department, told me to wait until they get back. ( via my MP correspondence)
Good luck.

[nationalityman]

Update on my case
After writing to my MP YEsterday and I made a call to HO customer contact number .
I have asked them to invesitgate this .
I got called today FROM HO and guess what
THEY LOST MY FILE .
THEY ARE TRYING THERE BEST TO LOOK FOR my file.

[rachsach]

Update on my case
After writing to my MP YEsterday and I made a call to HO customer contact number .
I have asked them to invesitgate this .
I got called today FROM HO and guess what
THEY LOST MY FILE .
THEY ARE TRYING THERE BEST TO LOOK FOR my file.

Sorry to hear this, hope they manage to find your file. If you have used NCS then at least you do not need worry about your originals.

It goes to show that a bunch of incompetent idiots works in UKVI.

[Babloo85]

Hahaha what a joke. Am sure they must be telling you " your case is still under consideration " before telling you it's lost. That shows how they work. Can you not sue them for this ?

[nationalityman]

I used NCS as we'll
I had a long conversation with her and she explain me the process
The process
They received the document the check are done before it assign to the case worker
Once it's finish then it assign to case worker who make decision and think what to do next .

[rachsach]

I used NCS as we'll
I had a long conversation with her and she explain me the process
The process
They received the document the check are done before it assign to the case worker
Once it's finish then it assign to case worker who make decision and think what to do next .

So your file was lost after checks were done and before it was assigned to the case worker?

[nationalityman]

Yes and she said that we need to do checks again because they got expired but at the moment they are looking for my file .

[rachsach]

Did they tell you what sort of checks they carry?

[nationalityman]

No

[furbs]

Hi guys I thought i should update you I received my approval letter today dated 15th january
good luck to all of u

Eligibility criteria: 6 years + 1yr ILR
Language criteria met : B1 test
Current nationality: Pakistani
Method of application: NCS
Council name if NCS used: Rutherglen South Lanarkshire
Date of application: 19/05/2014
Payment method : Debit
Date of receipt by UKBA: 21/05/2014
Date of acknowledgment: 28/05/2014
Date of debit or clearance of fees: 29/05/2014
Date approval received: 28/01/15 dated 15/01/15
Date of ceremony: 3/2/15