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British Nationality: Applications

Asked by Cameron ThomasIndependentHome OfficeTabled Answered 20 October 2025UIN 81099

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to enable citizenship applicants to track the progress of their applications.

Answered by Mike Tapp

Citizenship customers can submit their application for British citizenship online, however they are not currently able to track it’s progress.

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 service standard. This can be found at the following link: Migration transparency data - GOV.UK

The Home Office does contacts customers and provides them with an update, where an application cannot be processed within the published service standard.

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