Citizenship Ceremony cancelled due to Covid-19

[jasmine89]

Manchester city council started virtual ceremony that's great news for the Manchester applicants.

Approval date: 21st of October
HO invitation printing date: 31st of December
HO invitation received by post: 25th of January
Council invitation received: 26th of January
Virtual ceremony date: 03rd of February for free.

That means HO metioned printing dates are true but we are receiving by post late because of some disruption of royal mail may be. Oe home office posting late.

Hi has the council sent you the details about the ceremony in email yet?

[Man of mountains]

Update:

I been following this forum from along time
Finally today’s journey comes to end

Applied for Naturalisation 12/10/2020
Received decision 22/11/2020
Received ceremony invitation letter today

Called my council and they were able to do the same day with an hour .

Done with ceremony virtual online Skype

Finally, now passport waiting time

[Gard]

Manchester city council started virtual ceremony that's great news for the Manchester applicants.

Approval date: 21st of October
HO invitation printing date: 31st of December
HO invitation received by post: 25th of January
Council invitation received: 26th of January
Virtual ceremony date: 03rd of February for free.

That means HO metioned printing dates are true but we are receiving by post late because of some disruption of royal mail may be. Oe home office posting late.

Hiya,

Congratulations . Has the council emailed you the details for the ceremony?

Hi jasmine, I have sent them email according to their requirements. However, haven't received any reply yet. Hopefully they will send the instructions soon. Is that same for you as well?

[Desmond123]

Good news for all applicant in Manchester City Council. I received a letter for my virtual ceremony today 26th January scheduled for 3rd Feb for free.we getting there bit by bit.

Hi has the council sent you the details about the ceremony in email yet?

Not yet, I sent them the email last night because on the letter I received they asked me to confirm if will be able to do it on 3rd and get back with my details so they can get back on how it would be done via virtual

[Missi]

Update:

I been following this forum from along time
Finally today’s journey comes to end

Applied for Naturalisation 12/10/2020
Received decision 22/11/2020
Received ceremony invitation letter today

Called my council and they were able to do the same day with an hour .

Done with ceremony virtual online Skype

Finally, now passport waiting time

Congratulations! Lucky you got sorted within 2 months.. can you please tell me the date on invitation letter..

[jasmine89]

Manchester city council started virtual ceremony that's great news for the Manchester applicants.

Approval date: 21st of October
HO invitation printing date: 31st of December
HO invitation received by post: 25th of January
Council invitation received: 26th of January
Virtual ceremony date: 03rd of February for free.

That means HO metioned printing dates are true but we are receiving by post late because of some disruption of royal mail may be. Oe home office posting late.

Hiya,

Congratulations . Has the council emailed you the details for the ceremony?

Hi jasmine, I have sent them email according to their requirements. However, haven't received any reply yet. Hopefully they will send the instructions soon. Is that same for you as well?

Hi Gard,

Same here I emailed them the dame day confirming my attendance but have not heard anything back yet. Hopefully they will update us soon with further details.

[Man of mountains]

Update:

I been following this forum from along time
Finally today’s journey comes to end

Applied for Naturalisation 12/10/2020
Received decision 22/11/2020
Received ceremony invitation letter today

Called my council and they were able to do the same day with an hour .

Done with ceremony virtual online Skype

Finally, now passport waiting time

Congratulations! Lucky you got sorted within 2 months.. can you please tell me the date on invitation letter..

12/01/2021

[Man of mountains]

Hi , Can anyone help me out . As I went to the passport application and seems I have to put a refeee . Who can be a refer?

[pistol242]

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Invitation letter received today
Council Newham
Approval date: 28/10/2020
Invitation letter date: 07/01/202
Letter received by post 27/01/2021

Now, Newham people, are you managing to book ceremony? Please share your experience
I keep trying to book online but nothing

For people receiving their invitations in January, Newham is probably the worst council you could have picked. They have cancelled all booked citizenship ceremonies and stopped accepting new bookings until further notice.

[FrenchBaguette]

Did anyone manage to book citzen ceremony at Westminster?

Sent the email to ask for the Zoom ceremony and no response yet... Getting quite pissed off tbh

Let me know when you hear back and I'll do the same.

Apparently, they have not held any of these new virtual ceremonies, don't know if that's true...

[myukqueries]

Manchester city council started virtual ceremony that's great news for the Manchester applicants.

Approval date: 21st of October
HO invitation printing date: 31st of December
HO invitation received by post: 25th of January
Council invitation received: 26th of January
Virtual ceremony date: 03rd of February for free.

That means HO metioned printing dates are true but we are receiving by post late because of some disruption of royal mail may be. Oe home office posting late.

Hiya,

Congratulations . Has the council emailed you the details for the ceremony?

Hi jasmine, I have sent them email according to their requirements. However, haven't received any reply yet. Hopefully they will send the instructions soon. Is that same for you as well?

Hi Gard,

Same here I emailed them the dame day confirming my attendance but have not heard anything back yet. Hopefully they will update us soon with further details.

Hi Both, I have not received the letter from the council yet but i have just received the dial in details from the council to attend the virtual ceremony on 1st Feb 2021. It was just a calendar invitation. Nothing else.
They are doing it through Microsoft Teams.

Hopefully you both will receive soon. Although i am still surprised why i didnt get any invitation.

Did the letter say anything around when and how we will get our certificate? Can we collect in person or is it by post only?

[Gard]

Manchester city council started virtual ceremony that's great news for the Manchester applicants.

Approval date: 21st of October
HO invitation printing date: 31st of December
HO invitation received by post: 25th of January
Council invitation received: 26th of January
Virtual ceremony date: 03rd of February for free.

That means HO metioned printing dates are true but we are receiving by post late because of some disruption of royal mail may be. Oe home office posting late.

Hiya,

Congratulations . Has the council emailed you the details for the ceremony?

Hi jasmine, I have sent them email according to their requirements. However, haven't received any reply yet. Hopefully they will send the instructions soon. Is that same for you as well?

Hi Gard,

Same here I emailed them the dame day confirming my attendance but have not heard anything back yet. Hopefully they will update us soon with further details.

Hi jasmine, just got the email from Manchester city council. By the way my name isn't Gard, its Syed actually

[THENAB]

I have my ceremony soon, next week actually! This is after 4 months of waiting however. I am a little worried as around a month ago I moved but I had already received the invite from HO. Now I informed the council registration office about this before booking the ceremony. They are fine with it but clearly said that they will only post it to address that matches with HO. They advised me to email citizenship.support@homeoffice.gov.uk with the details of new address. Now I haven't heard back from this email at all. I am worried if anyone even checks this email. I don't want to end up in a situation where it's posted to my old location and rejected. I can pick up from the council in person but I don't think they allow for it these days due to Covid. Could anyone please advise if for the address change an email to above email address is enough and that they update the address but don't inform you of that? thank you!

[Desmond123]

Hiya,

Congratulations . Has the council emailed you the details for the ceremony?

Hi jasmine, I have sent them email according to their requirements. However, haven't received any reply yet. Hopefully they will send the instructions soon. Is that same for you as well?

Hi Gard,

Same here I emailed them the dame day confirming my attendance but have not heard anything back yet. Hopefully they will update us soon with further details.

Hi jasmine, just got the email from Manchester city council. By the way my name isn't Gard, its Syed actually

I have just received mine not long ago, virtual ceremony link for next Wednesday 10:30Am -11:00. Good luck to everyone.

[Yazzz95]

Hi,

I have got this response from newham registrar office today.

" We will be resuming some virtual and in person individual citizenship ceremonies in February and will try to rebook all ceremonies in the date of cancellations. "

[jasmine89]

Hiya,

Congratulations . Has the council emailed you the details for the ceremony?

Hi jasmine, I have sent them email according to their requirements. However, haven't received any reply yet. Hopefully they will send the instructions soon. Is that same for you as well?

Hi Gard,

Same here I emailed them the dame day confirming my attendance but have not heard anything back yet. Hopefully they will update us soon with further details.

Hi Both, I have not received the letter from the council yet but i have just received the dial in details from the council to attend the virtual ceremony on 1st Feb 2021. It was just a calendar invitation. Nothing else.
They are doing it through Microsoft Teams.

Hopefully you both will receive soon. Although i am still surprised why i didnt get any invitation.

Did the letter say anything around when and how we will get our certificate? Can we collect in person or is it by post only?

Hiya, i think with the volume of certificates that they have received they probably didn't manage to send letters to all. Thats great that you have gotten the invitation. When did they sent the invite was it today? They mentioned that they will send certificates on special delivery

[jasmine89]

Hiya,

Congratulations . Has the council emailed you the details for the ceremony?

Hi jasmine, I have sent them email according to their requirements. However, haven't received any reply yet. Hopefully they will send the instructions soon. Is that same for you as well?

Hi Gard,

Same here I emailed them the dame day confirming my attendance but have not heard anything back yet. Hopefully they will update us soon with further details.

Hi jasmine, just got the email from Manchester city council. By the way my name isn't Gard, its Syed actually

Haha so sorry syed.Mine ceremony is on the 2nd i have emailed them twice and they still haven’t sent me the details. i am panicking. Should i go to the office and ask for it? There is no other way to contact them

[jasmine89]

Hi jasmine, I have sent them email according to their requirements. However, haven't received any reply yet. Hopefully they will send the instructions soon. Is that same for you as well?

Hi Gard,

Same here I emailed them the dame day confirming my attendance but have not heard anything back yet. Hopefully they will update us soon with further details.

Hi jasmine, just got the email from Manchester city council. By the way my name isn't Gard, its Syed actually

I have just received mine not long ago, virtual ceremony link for next Wednesday 10:30Am -11:00. Good luck to everyone.

Lucky you. Mine is on tuesday and still no sign of email.

[jasmine89]

Hi jasmine, I have sent them email according to their requirements. However, haven't received any reply yet. Hopefully they will send the instructions soon. Is that same for you as well?

Hi Gard,

Same here I emailed them the dame day confirming my attendance but have not heard anything back yet. Hopefully they will update us soon with further details.

Hi jasmine, just got the email from Manchester city council. By the way my name isn't Gard, its Syed actually

I have just received mine not long ago, virtual ceremony link for next Wednesday 10:30Am -11:00. Good luck to everyone.

What did you put in the subject of the email. I hope they are not ignoring the confirmation email due to subject

[aliabbas]

Strange any updates ??
Mine is 16 oct approval and nothing yet

i am 15th october nothing yet. Some of the novembers have had there ceremonies already.

Any undates?? Not recieved mine yet

Same here guys. Approved on 13th October. Where are you guys based? I’m in Croydon and I’ve heard there’s been a disruption with Royal Mail this week on some postcodes including mine.

Any update??

[asifmahmood36]

Finally, I have received my ceremony invitation letter today by post. My timeline is:
Application online: 09 September 2020,
Documents upload online: 18 September 2020
Biometrics by IDV app: 28 September 2020
Approval letter by email: 27 OCT 2020
Ceremony letter issue date: 09 January 2021
Ceremony received by post: 28/01/2021
Ceremony date: Sent email to Wandsworth Council/waiting

[shahzy970]

Hi,

I have got this response from newham registrar office today.

" We will be resuming some virtual and in person individual citizenship ceremonies in February and will try to rebook all ceremonies in the date of cancellations. "

Hi Yazz,

Thanks for the update! I hope we hear some good news next week.

Keep us posted!

Thanks

[Sab172]

Good news for all applicant in Manchester City Council. I received a letter for my virtual ceremony today 26th January scheduled for 3rd Feb for free.we getting there bit by bit.

Hi has the council sent you the details about the ceremony in email yet?

Not yet, I sent them the email last night because on the letter I received they asked me to confirm if will be able to do it on 3rd and get back with my details so they can get back on how it would be done via virtual

Did Manchester Council send out invitation for the ceremony 1st class or 2nd class do you remember?

[Gard]

Hi jasmine, I have sent them email according to their requirements. However, haven't received any reply yet. Hopefully they will send the instructions soon. Is that same for you as well?

Hi Gard,

Same here I emailed them the dame day confirming my attendance but have not heard anything back yet. Hopefully they will update us soon with further details.

Hi jasmine, just got the email from Manchester city council. By the way my name isn't Gard, its Syed actually

Haha so sorry syed.Mine ceremony is on the 2nd i have emailed them twice and they still haven’t sent me the details. i am panicking. Should i go to the office and ask for it? There is no other way to contact them

Nothing to worry jasmine. Your gonna get the email by today or tomorrow or latest Monday. My email came from the person called Satnam Singh with the subject of citizenship ceremony. There is a link for downloading Microsoft teams and the joining link still not activated.

I emailed them with subject of " Citizenship ceremony attendance confirm".

I think the have got so many emails and they are replying one after another.

You dnt have to go physically in the office as they will not allow you in the lockdown. Just keep checking your email. Would be pleased to know that u have got it

[Sanaazim]

Ealing council is not answering calls or emails don’t you guys think we should complain about it to the mayor or Ealing complain department or councillors ???