British Nationality: Applications

(asked on 10th October 2025) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

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 Portrait
Mike Tapp
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
This question was answered on 20th October 2025

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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