Once your application is approved, you will receive a citizenship invitation letter with the details of the place where the ceremony will take place. This is normally your local council and the times given will vary from one council to another.

If you urgently need citizenship then you can pay extra and get an individual ceremony arranged for you.


E Fidan
Administrator

Hi Sergen:

Admin has also given you the correct scenario but I can list how it happened to me.

First you need to understand that Nationality has nothing to do with Passport except that you will be eligible to apply for \\passport once you are British Citizen. Therefore, you will get the decision on Nationality and not on Passport. I think you know that but just mixed the terms. I clarified so other people don't get confused.

They have changed procedure few times and I am not sure what is it now. My procedure was that they informed by post that my application has been approved and I will soon receive the invitation. I received my invitation in about a week following the decision. I was also asked to call within 14 days to arrange for my ceremony. They provided me with telephone number of my local council and I contacted them. They were able to provide me group Ceremony time after 8 days. They do group ceremony once a week(wednesday).

Applying for passport is another big task as you need to find a professional who can vouch for you and sign their name on to your application. It is more tougher then Citizenship application because any citizen not convicted of a crime can sign your application if they know you for more then three years but for Passport they must be a professional with good standing in the community.

I hope this helps.

Waheed

Just one more point: once you have received the letter, I beleive you have 89 days in whcih to attend a ceremony. So if you have urgent travel commitments, you can just use your existing passport, and attend the ceremony when you get back. You are not British until the ceremony has taken place, and you have the certificate in your hand.

hello, E fidan. i got a ceremony appointment yesterday, but i haven't received any letter from home office to say i have been successful in my application. do you think i should get a letter from home office as well as from local council telling me when the ceremony will be? 

AIUI, the Home Office writes to the individual at the same time as they send the certificate to the appropriate council. So you should generally get your letter from HO a few days or perhaps a week before you get the appointment letter from the council.

The HO letter might have been delayed or mislaid. But I don't think it is important; you have heard from the council, and they have your certificate, which they will give you at the ceremony. So the Home Office letter doesn't really matter at this stage...

paul

hi, paul. thank you very much for your information.

regards,

vicky