July 2013 - Naturalisation application Timeline

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:44 pm

msjuv wrote:Eligibility criteria: British citizen spouse + 1 year ILR
Method of application: NCS Hammersmith
Date of application: 15/07/2013
Date of receipt by UKBA: ?
Date of acknowledgement : 25/07/2013 dated (23/07/2013)
Date of debit of fees: 23/07/2013
Date of approval:
Date of Ceremony:

Wrote to them yesterday asking if my case has been assigned to a caseworker and got a reply saying the decision has been made and to contact them if I don't receive it withing next 2 weeks

sounds good; hopefully the decision is approval

msjuv · Post by **msjuv** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:11 pm

Thank you Derivaz, I was thinking it was only you and me left waiting. I hope you get some kind of news soon, I really feel for you. The wait is killing me!

neoseal · Post by **neoseal** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:13 pm

Msjuv, your letter will be with you soon.

Derivaz, ummmm Monday is not far

pkt1980 · Post by **pkt1980** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:33 pm

I am still waiting having applied on the 22nd of July at NCS Bristol. AN+MN1 3(1).

Lets hope there is some order at HO, eventhough I seriously doubt such a thing exists after the Ch4 program.

neoseal · Post by **neoseal** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:56 pm

Thanks PKT1980, didn't knew you are still waiting.

Have you tried emailing UKBA on their nationalityprogress email?

msjuv · Post by **msjuv** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 3:59 pm

I wouldn't hold my breath for any kind of order. People that applied much later than us have already got their decisions. The same happened when I applied for ILR, people that came in 5 hours later than me left before with approvals and the HO workers tried to pull old "IT problems" trick on the rest of us. I find it outrageous, £874 is a LOT of money to pay for essentially a few checks that could be made within days.

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:29 pm

msjuv wrote:I wouldn't hold my breath for any kind of order. People that applied much later than us have already got their decisions. The same happened when I applied for ILR, people that came in 5 hours later than me left before with approvals and the HO workers tried to pull old "IT problems" trick on the rest of us. I find it outrageous, £874 is a LOT of money to pay for essentially a few checks that could be made within days.

Order and HO don't go together haha

YOu'll get your reply soon though

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 4:29 pm

neoseal wrote:Msjuv, your letter will be with you soon.

Derivaz, ummmm Monday is not far

Yeah, ready for another "no decision made" on Monday lol

pkt1980 · Post by **pkt1980** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 7:24 pm

neoseal wrote:Thanks PKT1980, didn't knew you are still waiting.

Have you tried emailing UKBA on their nationalityprogress email?

I have in fact contacted them a couple of times. However, from others posts I realized that the whole thing is a farce.

I have checked some statistics and HO receives about 15K applications per month just for naturalization and I guess they lose count at some point

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 7:47 pm

pkt1980 wrote:
neoseal wrote:Thanks PKT1980, didn't knew you are still waiting.

Have you tried emailing UKBA on their nationalityprogress email?
I have in fact contacted them a couple of times. However, from others posts I realized that the whole thing is a farce.

I have checked some statistics and HO receives about 15K applications per month just for naturalization and I guess they lose count at some point

Are you sure it's that many???

njoy1987 · Post by **njoy1987** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 8:30 pm

I am sure its less than that

http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://ww ... RqZVu3GVFQ

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Wed Sep 25, 2013 9:31 pm

njoy1987 wrote:I am sure its less than that

http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://ww ... RqZVu3GVFQ

I don't think anybody, even the HO knows the real numbers; I think the HO it's a huge mess; that's why there is no transparency at all and the rules are so vague, cos if people knew how they operate, it would be a huge scandal; for instance they used to tell when an app was assigned to a caseworker and now they say they can't tell any longer; why? simple, cos there have been complaints that apps were not being assigned in order, so now they don't tell, so people can't complain....

pkt1980 · Post by **pkt1980** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:43 am

I got my info from the following:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... -june-2013

Once you scroll down, you will find the heading :
Citizenship data tables immigration statistics April to June 2013

where, it says that in 2012 they received 184,365 applications, which is basically 15K per month...I did not believe the number initially but I guess if you put that into perspective, the number of people who report here is miniscule.

PKT

njoy1987 · Post by **njoy1987** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:49 am

The split they were talking about has it happened yet?

thay will definitely organise UKBA. I still think our authority is much better than many in Europe where waiting times are lirerally celestial.

neoseal · Post by **neoseal** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 8:41 am

I agree with njoy, UKBA is much much better than equivalent in other countries of Europe, and even Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Even the amount of paper work needed is minimal.

With the split, they say service level will much improve, but then next couple of years will be the last wave of ILR, then the numbers will drop dramatically.

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 10:53 am

neoseal wrote:I agree with njoy, UKBA is much much better than equivalent in other countries of Europe, and even Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Even the amount of paper work needed is minimal.

With the split, they say service level will much improve, but then next couple of years will be the last wave of ILR, then the numbers will drop dramatically.

why will the amount of ILR applications drop dramatically?

njoy1987 · Post by **njoy1987** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:17 pm

they have been tightening right to settlement Labour agreed a few days ago they made mistakes whilst in power.

rules are again changing this octobor to level B for English etc they will keep changing these going forward as they have been

both conservatives and labour now have the same stance on migration

wont effect EEA nationals as much as non EEA.

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:43 pm

njoy1987 wrote:they have been tightening right to settlement Labour agreed a few days ago they made mistakes whilst in power.

rules are again changing this octobor to level B for English etc they will keep changing these going forward as they have been

both conservatives and labour now have the same stance on migration

wont effect EEA nationals as much as non EEA.

Ah yeah, i get you; true, the Tories also promised to reduce net immigration to tens of thousands if i remember well....

msjuv · Post by **msjuv** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:57 pm

I got my citizenship invitation this morning, dated 23.09.2013.
As I understand, there was meant to be an approval letter first but it was probably lost in the post. I don't know if my email enquiring about the progress helped somehow. I hope everyone waiting gets some news soon.

neoseal · Post by **neoseal** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:02 pm

Congrats msjuv. When have you booked?

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 3:56 pm

msjuv wrote:I got my citizenship invitation this morning, dated 23.09.2013.
As I understand, there was meant to be an approval letter first but it was probably lost in the post. I don't know if my email enquiring about the progress helped somehow. I hope everyone waiting gets some news soon.

Can you book without the approval letter? i heard you need to have the approval letter first.

msjuv · Post by **msjuv** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 5:59 pm

Thank you neoseal. I sent an email to the council, I think they do ceremonies every Wednesday.
As I understand, you can book with invitation letter because that is what it tells you to do, but not with approval one.

2321 · Post by **2321** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:54 pm

Derivaz wrote:
msjuv wrote:I got my citizenship invitation this morning, dated 23.09.2013.
As I understand, there was meant to be an approval letter first but it was probably lost in the post. I don't know if my email enquiring about the progress helped somehow. I hope everyone waiting gets some news soon.
Can you book without the approval letter? i heard you need to have the approval letter first.

Derivaz any update?

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:33 pm

msjuv wrote:Thank you neoseal. I sent an email to the council, I think they do ceremonies every Wednesday.
As I understand, you can book with invitation letter because that is what it tells you to do, but not with approval one.

Well, my pal applied and got an approval letter from the HO and when he phoned the council they asked him for the details on the letter and he didn't get any letter from the council, he said that without that approval letter, he wouldn't have been able to book the ceremony; phone them and see what they say..

Derivaz · Post by **Derivaz** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:34 pm

2321 wrote:
Derivaz wrote:
msjuv wrote:I got my citizenship invitation this morning, dated 23.09.2013.
As I understand, there was meant to be an approval letter first but it was probably lost in the post. I don't know if my email enquiring about the progress helped somehow. I hope everyone waiting gets some news soon.
Can you book without the approval letter? i heard you need to have the approval letter first.
Derivaz any update?

Regarding my decision letter? no nothing, just tesco vouchers the other day lol, you?

I'll send another email on Monday

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