Service Standard for Citizenship and Right to Work in the EU

Hi everyone,

I applied for my citizenship through NDRS  on the 29th of June 2018. I have received no word about my application since.

If I haven't heard anything, am I safe to presume that my application will be completed by the end of December?

Once I receive word of my application, I assume I then must go to a citizenship ceremony before I am officially a citizen. How soon after this ceremony are you "official"? My partner may have to move to ROI to work in January, so I am trying to figure out if I will also be able to move to ROI and work there. I have a funny feeling that since I haven't heard anything and it's mid-November that I likely won't be able to join my other half.

Thanks for your help!

Hi everyone,

I applied for my citizenship through NDRS  on the 29th of June 2018. I have received no word about my application since.

If I haven't heard anything, am I safe to presume that my application will be completed by the end of December?

Once I receive word of my application, I assume I then must go to a citizenship ceremony before I am officially a citizen. How soon after this ceremony are you "official"? My partner may have to move to ROI to work in January, so I am trying to figure out if I will also be able to move to ROI and work there. I have a funny feeling that since I haven't heard anything and it's mid-November that I likely won't be able to join my other half.

Thanks for your help!

Once you have attended your ceremony, you are a citizen. I'm sorry you've had such a long wait. We did too. Hopefully you will receive word by then but you can't safely assume anything, I'm afraid.

There are so many people on EU routes to the UK who are applying for British citizenship, that it is taking a long while.

Britain and the RoI have a long standing agreement, long before the EU was thought of, that allows British citizens and Irish citizens to live in each others country. Your husband won't need to be an EEA citizen "qualified person" (follow EU rules) for you to live in the Republic, because you will be a British citizen too. It's a far better system than the EU's Free Movement and there are no rules to follow, but it is only for those that have British citizenship or Irish citizenship.

Hi everyone,

I applied for my citizenship through NDRS  on the 29th of June 2018. I have received no word about my application since.

If I haven't heard anything, am I safe to presume that my application will be completed by the end of December?

Once I receive word of my application, I assume I then must go to a citizenship ceremony before I am officially a citizen. How soon after this ceremony are you "official"? My partner may have to move to ROI to work in January, so I am trying to figure out if I will also be able to move to ROI and work there. I have a funny feeling that since I haven't heard anything and it's mid-November that I likely won't be able to join my other half.

Thanks for your help!

I do not know what NDRS is

but  you should worry

we were at about 2 months for naturalisation this summer and all June applications have been completed ages ago

did you apply through some sort of awful local council checking service? i once had a client come to me who applied and heard nothing, later turned out that a) they do not return anything to you with approval letter as they normally do to me when I represent people. so the only you woudl have heard would be ceremony invitation
b) the ceremony invitation was sent to the council instead of the applicant and the council has probably bined it, basically teh clinet had no idea and by then it's been over 90 days.
Those ceremony invitations get lost half the time TBH
so this can be fixed but you need to be proactive.
no way your application has not been considered yet, unless maybe you have a lustrous criminal history or you are related to Bashar al Assad )

If you contact me through usual channels (site/email) i will give you the address to which to try to send an email with a duly alarming subject line

I do not know what NDRS is

but  you should worry

we were at about 2 months for naturalisation this summer and all June applications have been completed ages ago

did you apply through some sort of awful local council checking service? i once had a client come to me who applied and heard nothing, later turned out that a) they do not return anything to you with approval letter as they normally do to me when I represent people. so the only you woudl have heard would be ceremony invitation
b) the ceremony invitation was sent to the council instead of the applicant and the council has probably bined it, basically teh clinet had no idea and by then it's been over 90 days.
Those ceremony invitations get lost half the time TBH
so this can be fixed but you need to be proactive.
no way your application has not been considered yet, unless maybe you have a lustrous criminal history or you are related to Bashar al Assad )

If you contact me through usual channels (site/email) i will give you the address to which to try to send an email with a duly alarming subject line

NDRS is the Nationality Document return Service, you can read about it here. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/nationality-document-return-service.

The service standard for naturalisation is 6 months. My husband applied this year and it took very nearly that long. Yes, when others were being decided in a matter of weeks, and no, his was not a complicated application.

I do not know what NDRS is

Wow.  So much in these 7 words.  Just wow.