sotonfarang

Thanks everyone for all of your feedback

i will be looking into it using your contacts and info over the next few days, if i sort anything out then i will post for future reference

cheers

hahaha Bobrussell any trip to Portsmouth is an ordeal for us Sotonians for sad / immature footballing rivalry reasons so you may be right Newport could be on the agenda, make a nice day of it.thanks for the advice. I am glad your MP got your issue resolved too, shows they are helpful , especially when an election is coming up soon

nope 7by7 the MP or the Home office specified the reason for our delay, maybe lost down the back of a cupboard somewhere, will forever be a mystery.

We are going to be moving to Thailand in a couple of months and my wife, 6 year old daughter and I have alot of things that we would like to take with us.

Has anybody had any experience with taking extra suitcases and if one airlines charges / service are cheaper or better than any of the others.

Do they allow you more if your visa is a long one?

Just thought i`d ask before I call them all,

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Thanks in advance.

well, what can i say?

after being told last week that my wife`s case was unworkable and its likely to take another 4-6 months, which would be a toatal of 15 months, it mysteriously arrived today !!

we are ecstatic

just waiting for a call back from our local registry office to book her citizenship ceremony, once she has attended she can then send off for her passport which, they say, takes between 6 and 8 weeks to be sorted.

hope it doesnt turn out to be 6-8 months with our luck.

anyway, thank you for your comments , its been an interesting thread, just hope that others may benefit from all of our comments.

yipeeeeeee

Sincere congratulations.

It has been a long wait but once your wife gets her UK Passport then it will be all worth while.

Thank you for the good luck wishes

Today we received a letter from our local MP , I sent him an email on the off chance to see if he could help a couple of weeks ago, It turns out that his involvement was the game-changer.

I can`t believe that he actually got involved, fair play to him.I am just about to write him a thank you letter.

wow! that was so fast to receive your passport, hopefully my wife`s will be quick too. have booked a ceremony privately for £75, it varies on area.

enjoy Amsterdam.

it took 11 months in total, we applied april 10th 2014

well, what can i say?

after being told last week that my wife`s case was unworkable and its likely to take another 4-6 months, which would be a toatal of 15 months, it mysteriously arrived today !!

we are ecstatic

just waiting for a call back from our local registry office to book her citizenship ceremony, once she has attended she can then send off for her passport which, they say, takes between 6 and 8 weeks to be sorted.

hope it doesnt turn out to be 6-8 months with our luck.

anyway, thank you for your comments , its been an interesting thread, just hope that others may benefit from all of our comments.

yipeeeeeee

We just received the reply to our emailed complaint, exactly 20 working days after we complained to them as per they quoted

the email, unsurprisingly , looks like a standard one explaining that they are not obliged to give citizenship to anybody or within any timescale.

due to new legislation there are now more security checks in place and time spent out of the country will now be under more scrutiny.

they quote another 3-4 months for an answer, this will take ours to 15 months in total ( if its true!!)

Just out of interest what is the timescale at the minute for applying for British citizenship my wife is applying for hers next week

I spoke to our local registry office yesterday and they suggest that the general timescale is around 5 to 6 months at the moment on average

as you can see from my posts, my wife`s has so far been nearly 11 months and we have no idea why, nor do the people who operate the home office helpline

good luck, hope you get a quick response.

0n february the 10th my wifes application will reach the 10 month wait mark.

we are so fed up with this now and frustrated. when we called last week the man at the home office told me that they were awaiting the outcome of new security check legislation, this has now been decided and all applications were on hold!

they say we will receive a letter outlining this within the next 4 weeks to inform us that our application may take up to another 4 months after that to process. this is an absolute joke.

with all this extra waiting time, then attending a ceremony and it taking 6-8 weeks to get her british passport once all that is done basically takes the total length of processing to a hugely annoying 18 MONTHS !!

i emailed a letter of complaint to them and also emailed our local MP for help.

lets see what this brings, probably nothing as usual.

depressing,

this is an old thread i know but i thought i`d post our bad experience anyway

applied 10th april and still waiting, 10 months now!

hi me and my english brother in law will be looking to play as part of a football team in the pattaya area soon

does anyone know of any 5, 6, 7 or 11 a side leagues that operate in the area, or any teams that take new players

we may also consider starting our own team and entering a league or just play + train for fun

if there aren`t any we basically just want to have a kick around for fun and fitness

thanks

thank you i will check these out

thank you i will ask at a local school

i dont need it for a visa, just want to learn thai as i find it hard to learn from my wife and want to be able to talk to my in-laws some day (after 8 years!)

Does anybody know of any courses near to Bang Saray where i can learn to talk Thai please?

my wife has now been awaiting an answer 10 months today! absolutely ridiculous

we called them last week

"its still being processed" same answer as we have had repeatedly for the last 5 months (apart from when one bloke lied and said it would be with us by the end of the week)

all well, all we can do is wait i suppose

stressed out

cheers for the advice guys

ok thank you for your replies

yes we are still awaiting my wifes citizenship outcome, its been 9 months now so i am exploring alternatives incase of a bad result.

no we haven`t contacted our referrees, I can`t even recall who they were, if any were given at all.sounds crazy but i really dont remember giving any.

my wife has ILR and we are thinking about moving to Thailand will this invalidate her ILR or is there a timescale that it becomes invalid

for example if she returns for 2 weeks every year will ILR be extended?

or if she is out of the UK for more than 12 months will we need to start the process again?

does it ever get revoked?

thanks

we spoke to a chap at the home office who said that our citizenship result letter will be with us at the by the start of the following week, we waited for 2 weeks, called again and told them this.They said that this was rubbish and he should not have said it and its still being processed, so frustrating!

i then requested the return of our documents as advised by other forum members, which would hopefully spur them on a bit, they quoted 10 working days for the return, it took 1 day.

still heard nothing, bordering on the pathetic now

its 9 months on the 10th of january, 95% are supposed to be completed within 6 months, if it goes over 8 months is the next timeline.

STRESSED!

I just called them AGAIN they say that there is a code on the file now suggesting that all that they are waiting for is replies from the external references now and we should have a reply within the next week!

well,if that is correct then it will take us upto the 8 month wait mark.

i pray to Buddha that it does arrive soon and more importantly its a YES.

then comes the citizenship ceremony and a 6-8 week wait for the passport application to be processed, that will take it upto the 11 month mark from start to finish.

god, we need a holiday! been trapped here for all that time is making my brain ache

I hadnt heard of NCS before , shame as maybe it sounds like the best way to have sent it to them and may possibly achieve some kind of priority.

never mind, still waiting though, been 7 months and 1 week now

hmmm, strange one.

nothing surprises me these days. did they not send all your documents back with the letter then?

No documents were returned at all. The original LitUK test certificate must be submitted and will not be returned for fear that it ends up in the wrong hands at a later date and all the other documents were photocopies including my wife's passport as we used the Nationality Checking Service. We didn't have to photocopy anything as the registrar at the NCS did it all. Took her about half an hour, but that was fine with us as we paid for the service.

Included in the price is postage and packing by the NCS with Royal Mail Signed For 1st Class. It was posted on the day of our appointment at the NCS on a Friday and received in Liverpool the following Monday morning.

If it sounds like I continue to promote the NCS then it's probably because I found it to be exceptional value for £65.

hmmm, strange one.

nothing surprises me these days. did they not send all your documents back with the letter then?

seems to be pot luck !

just had to cancel our xmas plans, absolute joke, been 6 months and 2 weeks nearly.

going to call them tomorrow.

thanks for the info

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well still no sign of any descision so the letter to chase them up will be in the post this week, the 6 moth estimated period is up this friday.

lets see what happens, just hope they dont look down upon a little nudge

chase up letter has been sent. getting very frustrating now !

Just an update. My wife received her Citizenship approval 7th October so that is 3 months.

A friend rang and requested their passports back after 4 months as they were urgently needed. They sent an approval letter with the passports so they were very surprised, just a thought.

Hopefully you get yours soon

well still no sign of any descision so the letter to chase them up will be in the post this week, the 6 moth estimated period is up this friday.

lets see what happens, just hope they dont look down upon a little nudge

chase up letter has been sent. getting very frustrating now !

well still no sign of any descision so the letter to chase them up will be in the post this week, the 6 moth estimated period is up this friday.

lets see what happens, just hope they dont look down upon a little nudge