Naturalisation application processing timelines (only)

[afrikano]

Eligibility criteria: 10 Years Long Residency + ILR granted in 2020
Language/LIUK Criteria: UK Masters Degree + Life in the UK test
Nationality: Non EU
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 28/09/2021
Payment method: (Online)
Date of debit of fees: 28/09/2021
Date of acknowledgement: None
Date Biometrics enrolled: 29/09/2021(paid)
Date on Approval letter/Email: 29/11/2021
Date of receipt of approval: 29/11/2021 (Email)
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: Waiting
Citizenship ceremony date: Waiting

Good luck to everyone, it's been a long journey for sure !

[natic]

Eligibility criteria: EU Settlement + Spouse of a British citizen
Language/LIUK Criteria: B1 Life Skills + Life in UK test
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 10/10/2021
Payment method: debit card online
Date of debit of fees: 10/10/2021
Date Biometrics enrolled: 23/10/2021
Ceremony Invitation letter: 29/11/2021
Ceremony Booked: 29/11/2021
Date of Ceremony: 02/12/2021 - Virtual

[Nickotout]

Eligibility criteria: Settled status since 2019
Language/LIUK Criteria: U.K. Masters Degree + LIUK
Nationality: Non - EU
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 05/08/2021
Documents Submitted: on 01/09/2021
Date of acknowledgement:
Date Biometrics enrolled: 01/09/2021
Date on Approval letter: 29/11/2021 (Email from Home office Atlas)
Date of receipt of approval: 29/11/2021
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: 29/11/2021
Date of Ceremony: hamlets02/12/2021 (Earliest private ceremony date at Tower hamlets)

[Montana2323]

Eligibility criteria: ILR + Spouse of British Citizen
Language/LIUK Criteria: Degree + Life in UK.
Nationality : None EU
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 26 Sep 2021
Payment method: Credit Card (Online)
Date of acknowledgement: 26 Sep 2021 (email)
Date of debit of fees: 26 Sep 2021
Date Biometrics enrolled: 05 Oct 2021
Date on Approval letter: 29 Nov 2021 (email)
Date of receipt of approval: As above
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: As above
Date of Ceremony: 7 December 2021 (virtual)

[AAJav]

Eligibility criteria: 8 years + Settled Status since 2019
Language/LIUK Criteria: IELTS + Life in the UK test
Nationality: European
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 04/07/2021
Payment method: Debit Card (Online)
Date of debit of fees: 04/07/2021
Date of acknowledgement: 04/07/2021
Date Biometrics enrolled: 23/07/2021
Date on Approval letter: 29/11/2021 (Email from Home Office Atlas)
Date of receipt of approval: 29/11/2021
Date of Ceremony: TBC

Good luck everyone!

[TomasN]

Eligibility criteria: EU Settled Status, 11 year residency altogether
Language/LIUK Criteria: UK Degree, Academic Transcript
Nationality: Czech
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 18/06/2021
Payment method: Debit Card (Online)
Date of debit of fees: 18/06/2021
Date Biometrics enrolled: 01/07/2021
Date of acknowledgement: 01/07/2021
Date on Approval letter: NA - just an email.
Date of receipt of approval: 29/11/2021 (email from Atlas)
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: Awaiting
Date of Ceremony: Awaiting

Finally nearly there!

[soulfreeee]

Myself
Eligibility criteria: UK Resident since 2010. Spouse Visa, then ILR in 2013. Spouse of British Citizen. I haven't travelled out of the UK since Feb 2018.
Language/LIUK Criteria: B1 + Life in the UK test
Nationality: Non EU (India)
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 28/10/21
Payment method: (Online)
Date of debit of fees: 29/10/21
Date of acknowledgement: None
Date Biometrics enrolled: 13/11/21(paid)
Date on Approval letter/Email: N/a
Date of receipt of approval: N/a
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: N/a
Citizenship ceremony date: N.a

I expect an email from the UK Home office because I made an error with my B1 Cert. It's dated Feb 2019 so I'm 7 months over the 2 year cut off. My fault for not checking, the process will obviously longer but it's done now.

[Zedoak]

Mother's Application
Eligibility Criteria: Resident since 2015, ILR, Spouse of British Citizen
Language: B1 + LITUK
Nationality: Non EU
Method of Application: Online
Date of Application: 16/10/2021
Date Biometrics Enrolled: 28/10/2021
Date on Approval Letter: N/a
Date of receipt of approval: N/a
Citizenship Ceremony Date: N/a

[LZ_90]

Eligibility criteria: 5 year Tier 2 + 1 year ILR
Language / LIUK: U.K. undergrad and master’s degrees
Nationality: Non EU (Singapore)
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 08/09/2021
Application method: online
Date Biometrics enrolled: 30/09/2021
Date of Acknowledgment: 30/09/2021
Date on Approval letter/Email: N/a
Date of receipt of approval: N/a
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: N/a
Citizenship ceremony date: N.a

[GUMSUM420]

ILR + British Spouse
Application Submitted 31st July 2021
Biometric: 1st August

None received yet
I wonder what is the pattern, some applicants from May and some from as recent as September are getting response,

[afrikano]

Eligibility criteria: 10 Years Long Residency + ILR granted in 2020
Language/LIUK Criteria: UK Masters Degree + Life in the UK test
Nationality: Non EU
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 28/09/2021
Payment method: (Online)
Date of debit of fees: 28/09/2021
Date of acknowledgement: None
Date Biometrics enrolled: 29/09/2021(paid)
Date on Approval letter/Email: 29/11/2021
Date of receipt of approval: 29/11/2021 (Email)
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: Waiting
Citizenship ceremony date: 02/12/2021 (Private)

Good luck to everyone, it's been a long journey for sure !

[illseeyoutomorrow]

Eligibility criteria: EU Settled Status 1y, 15 year residency altogether
Language/LITUK Criteria: B1 IELTS (British Council) + C2 LanguageCert + Life in the UK test
Nationality: Polish (EU)
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 06/06/2021
Payment method: (Online, debit card)
Date of debit of fees: 06/06/2021
Date of acknowledgement: 06/06/2021 - email “payment confirmation - what to do next”
Date Biometrics enrolled: 30/06/2021
Date on Approval letter/Email: 29/11/2021
Date of receipt of approval: 29/11/2021 (Email)
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: 29/11/2021 (approval and ceremony invitation all in one email "Application Update" from Home Office Atlas)
Citizenship ceremony date: available dates: 8, 14 and 15 Dec 21

Other Updates - sharing as the whole process took longer than I initially expected:

Total days from application submission to approval - 176
Total days from starting the process to approval - 285

LITUK test registration: 17/02/2021
Personal information from UK Visas & Immigration request: 17/02/2021
LanguageCert EN test registration: 18/02/2021
ACRO PNC request: 18/02/2021
Response to UK Visas & Immigration request: 03/03/2021
Response from ACRO PNC: 22/03/2021
LITUK test and results: 02/04/2021
IELTS test registration (due to LanguageCert rescheduling): 02/04/2021
IELTS test: 18/04/2021
IELTS test results: 29/04/2021
LanguageCert test: 26/05/2021
Passport photos: 31/05/2021
UKVCAS registration: 06/06/2021
LanguageCert test results: 14/06/2021
UKVCAS doc check online verification: 28/06/2021

Most of the delay coming from the low availability of Language/LITUK test dates.

Total cost: 2025 GBP (plus approx 150 for the ceremony)

Big thanks to the forum community and good luck to everyone!

[Setmilr987]

Eligibility criteria: ILR + British Citizen Spouse
+ Language and LIUK
Nationality: Non-EU
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 07 JULY 2021
Date Biometrics enrolled: 08 JULY 2021(paid)
Date on Approval letter/Email: Waiting
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: Waiting

Nearly, 5-Months

[TomasN]

Eligibility criteria: EU Settled Status, 11 year residency altogether
Language/LIUK Criteria: UK Degree, Academic Transcript
Nationality: Czech
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 18/06/2021
Payment method: Debit Card (Online)
Date of debit of fees: 18/06/2021
Date Biometrics enrolled: 01/07/2021
Date of acknowledgement: 01/07/2021
Date on Approval letter: NA - just an email.
Date of receipt of approval: 29/11/2021 (email from Atlas)
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: NA - just an email.
Date of Ceremony: 10/12/2021

Finally nearly there!

Good luck everyone! It seems that many of us overthink the process, but as long as you meet all the criteria I'm sure you will get your citizenship.

[lequynhmai]

I have been checking this thread everyday and finally I can now post my own timeline for your information.

Eligibility criteria: 10 years long residence + ILR granted in 2020
Language/LIUK Criteria: University in the UK + Life in the UK test
Nationality: Non EU ( Vietnam )
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 27/6/21
Payment method: (Online)
Date of debit of fees: 27/6/21
Date of acknowledgement: None
Date Biometrics enrolled: 20/07/21(paid)
Date on Approval letter/Email: 29/11/2021
Date of receipt of approval: 29/11/2021 (Email)
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: 30/11/2021 (via email)
Citizenship ceremony date: 05/01/2022 - Public Ceremony (I need to travel in Dec so decided to push the ceremony to after my holiday)

It’s been a long journey everyone, 12 years in the Uk for me. This forum has been of great help, best of luck to those still waiting! You will get it! Now I’m moving onto the Passport application thread …

[bhatti007]

Eligibility criteria: 5 year refugee + 1 year ILR
Language/LIUK Criteria: UK degree
Nationality: Pakistani
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 26/06/2021
Date Biometrics enrolled: 13/07/2021 - at Premium Service Point1
Date on Approval letter: Not received
Date of receipt of approval: Not received
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: 29/11/2021
Date of Ceremony: 03 Dec 2021 private virtual (Tower Hamlets)

Thanks for this group and its people who shared their timeline which gave me positive vibe, it was really long journey and finally its coming to an end. see you guys soon in passport timeline

[SSTS]

Eligibility criteria: EU Settled Status
Language/LIUK Criteria: B1 Trinity, Life in the UK Test
Nationality: EU
Method of application: Post
Date of application: 24/09/2021
Payment method: Debit Card (Payment slip)
Date of debit of fees: 14/10/2021
Date Biometrics enrolled: 01/12/2021
Date of acknowledgement: N/A
Date on Approval letter: Awaiting
Date of receipt of approval: Awaiting
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: Awaiting
Date of Ceremony: Awaiting

[ray007]

Eligibility criteria : 6 years (DLR) + ILR 4 years
Language / LIUK Criteria: Trinity B1 & LIUK Test.
Nationality : African
Method of Application: Online
Date of Application : 12/10/2021
Payment method: Debit card (Online)
Date of debit of fees: 12/10/2021
Date of acknowledgement : 12/10/2021
Date Biometrics enrolled: 14/10/21
Date of Approval letter: 29/11/2021
Date of receipt of approval : 29/11/2021 (Email)
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: 29/11/2021
Date of ceremony: 11/12/2021

[kairee]

Eligibility criteria: ILR granted in 2021, spouse of
Nationality: Non EU
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 18/03/2021
Date Biometrics enrolled: 13/04/2021(paid)
Date on Approval letter/Email: waiting
Date of receipt of approval: waiting
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: waiting
Citizenship ceremony date: waiting

Moderator edit : please do not ask questions in the timeline only topics.

[icebat]

Eligibility criteria: EU ILR + 1year
Language/LIUK Criteria: Life in the UK + ESOL SELT B1 + US Citizen
Nationality : Italian, American
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 16 May 2021
Payment method: Credit card online
Date of debit of fees and acknowledgement : 16 May 2021
Date of biometrics and enrollment: 11 Jun 2021 (Croydon)
Date on Approval letter: never received, but my children registration date was 16 September 2021
Date of receipt of approval: never received
Date of ceremony letter: 08 November 2021
Date of ceremony: 26 November 2021

Final update on this thread, I guess

Good luck to all still waiting!

[ItalianPilot]

Application Timeline

Eligibility criteria: 10yr + 2yr as EU Settled Status (12 years in total circa)
Language/LIUK Criteria: Trinity B1.1 with Distinction + LIUK
Nationality: Italian
Method of application: Online via an immigration solicitor
Application sent & fee paid: 23rd August 2021
Date of debit of fees: 23rd August 2021
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 23rd August 2021 (emails UKVCAS and confirmation of payment)
Date of biometrics: Booked for the 3rd September 2021 in London
Date of receipt of approval: Waiting
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting

Application Timeline

Eligibility criteria: 10yr + 2yr as EU Settled Status (12 years in total circa)
Language/LIUK Criteria: Trinity B1.1 with Distinction + LIUK
Nationality: Italian
Method of application: Online via an immigration solicitor
Application sent & fee paid: 23rd August 2021
Date of debit of fees: 23rd August 2021
Date of receipt of acknowledgement: 23rd August 2021 (emails UKVCAS and confirmation of payment)
Date of biometrics: Booked for the 3rd September 2021 in London
Date of receipt of approval: 30/11/21 via email
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: Same as above via email which it seems to be new standard
Date of ceremony: 16/02/22 this is ridiculously late, will check with my solicitor today what can be done, although I appreciate they must have a backlog as the home office clear theirs.

Thank you for everyone adding to this timeline for peace of mind!

[dean255]

Eligibility criteria: 5 years Tier 2 + 1 year ILR
Language/LIUK Criteria: Life in the UK test
Nationality: Non EU
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 08/06/2021
Payment method: (Online)
Date of debit of fees: 08/06/2021
Date of acknowledgement: 08/06/2021
Date Biometrics enrolled: 05/07/2021(paid)
Date on Approval letter/Email: 29/11/2021 (Email)
Date of receipt of approval: 29/11/2021 (Email)
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: 29/11/2021 (Email)
Citizenship ceremony date: 03/12/2021 (Private)

Thanks to everyone for submitting there timeline. Its being good know how eveyone application timeline.

[baffledinleicester]

Myself, wife and 2 children under 18
Eligibility criteria: 5 Years Tier 2 + ILR granted in 2020
Language/LIUK Criteria: B1 + Life in the UK test
Nationality: Non EU
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 6/9/21
Payment method: (Online)
Date of debit of fees: 6/9/21
Date of acknowledgement: 6/9/21
Date Biometrics enrolled: 13/9/21(paid)
Date on Approval letter/Email: 21/11/2021
Date of receipt of approval: 21/11/2021 (Email)
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: 21/11/2021 (via email)
Citizenship ceremony date: 16/12/21

[Ja2817]

Application Timeline

Eligibility criteria: BC spouse + ILR
Nationality: Non EU.
Method of application: Online
Date of receipt by UKBA: 9th June 2021
Date of debit of fees: 9th June 2021
Date of receipt of acknowledgement:
Date of biometrics: 18th June 2021
Date of receipt of approval: Waiting
Date on Approval Letter: Waiting
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: Waiting
Date of ceremony: Waiting

[ukresident001]

Eligibility criteria: 10 years UK residence + 1 year ILR
Language/LIUK Criteria: UK Degree + Life in the UK test
Nationality: Non EU
Method of application: Online
Date of application: 15/10/2021
Payment method: (Online)
Date of debit of fees: 015/10/2021
Date of acknowledgement: Never received
Date Biometrics enrolled: 16/10/2021(paid £99)
Date on Approval letter/Email: waiting
Date of receipt of approval: waiting
Date of receipt of ceremony letter: waiting
Citizenship ceremony date: waiting