Written Question·Home Office·UIN 81098

British Nationality: Applications

Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Cameron Thomas

IndependentTewkesbury

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of the time it will take UK Visas and Immigration to process its backlog of citizenship applications for people with indefinite leave to remain.

Answer

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 ...

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