Anyone received their citizenship recently? Please post your timeline
Anyone received their citizenship recently? Please post your timeline
See the existing thread here.
Anyone who applied in Jan/Feb 2021 has any updates?
I applied in person in early/mid Feb 2021 and have absolutely no updates. No acknowledgement, no email, no letter. I have nothing to relate to my application. The contact centre basically just answered 7-12 months for every question asked.
An official information request on FYI by a resident named Jeannette shows the number of applications received to be quite consistent at around 35,000 a year. However, the number of approvals have become much slower gradually.
2018: 32,288 approvals, 27 working days on average to process.
2019: 31,717 approvals, 38 working days on average to process.
2020: 20,492 approvals, 90 working days on average to process.
Jan-2021: only 819 approvals, 127 working days on average to process.
Not sure what’s going on at the moment.
I’m in the same boat. Applied 7 Jan 2021, in person. No communication from the office so far.
The information is from here:
https://fyi.org.nz/request/14497-inf...ion-timeframes
I guess that 819 approvals in Jan 2021 is for applications lodged way back in July 2020. For applications lodged in Jan/Feb 2021 we don’t even know what’s happening at the moment.
So if we calculate using the mid value (15/01/2021)
=> add back 127 working days
=> approximately 184 calendar days, skipping all public holidays, Saturdays and Sundays
=> guessing the queue is currently at 15 July 2020.
Last edited by l00k; 8th March 2021 at 05:07 PM.
But after reading a few related posts here it looks like there are applicants who applied in Dec 2020 / Jan 2021 and already got approved by now.
As with INZ processing, every case is individual. What happens to one case can't be a precedent for others, which will each have their own evidence to be checked out.
2 of my friends applied via online last 27-July-2020, and up until now they haven't heard from anyone yet. One did follow up last 24-Jan thru email, and found out that his application has not yet been assigned to a CO. They also said that it takes 5 to 7 months for the assignment to a CO and most applicants would now the outcome within 7-12 months from submitting a complete and correct application.
I submitted my application via online too, last 20-Oct-2020. And did an enquiry last 18-Feb via email too. I got the same response.
Same here, I applied on July 20, 2020... I haven't heard anything from them yet