British Nationality: Applications
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is a backlog of citizenship applications from people with indefinite leave to remain.
Answered by Mike Tapp
The service standard for the processing of a straightforward application for British citizenship is six months.
The most recent migration transparency data confirms that 99.36% of straightforward applications for citizenship are processed within published service standard.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/migration-transparency-data#passports-citizenship-and-civil-registration
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