Happy to share my Citizenship timeline

[Babu]

Timeline:

Arrived in NZ with work visa - Oct 2014
Applied residency - Jan 2015
Residency approved - Apr 2015
Visa label in passport - May 2015
Citizenship applied - 10th Feb 2020
Citizenship approval letter received - 17 Mar 2020
Now waiting for Citizenship certificate by courier post, no citizenship ceremonies until further notice because of COVID-19.

[JandM]

Congratulations!

(It's so nice to have a reason to say that to one person at least, in the middle of all that is going on.)

[Yanco]

Congratulations.

3 months to approve your application. Unbelievable.

[Tariq Shahzad]

Golden time of 2015

[Khan1192]

Congratulations for your citizenship approval babu.. I also got my residency approved in about under 3 months too in 2015 I applied in about Februaryish....

[Marco83]

Congratulations for your citizenship approval babu.. I also got my residency approved in about under 3 months too in 2015 I applied in about Februaryish....

Looks like February is a lucky month for Residency, I also got mine approved in 6 weeks.

[Yanco]

Looks like February is a lucky month for Residency, I also got mine approved in 6 weeks.

Nope. My application lodged 8 February, 14 months later not even a case officer looking at it.

[bennyj]

Thanks Babu. I applied early january but have not got it yet. I did however recieve an email this week asking to check my details were correct.. but I don't think that is an approval letter. Did u recieve that email?

Here's my time line.
Arrived New Zealand Sept 2012 work visa
Applied resident visa July 2014
Approved resident visa April 2015
Approved PR May 2017
Applied Citizenship Jan 2020
Email received to confirm details April 2020

[Babu]

Thanks Babu. I applied early january but have not got it yet. I did however recieve an email this week asking to check my details were correct.. but I don't think that is an approval letter. Did u recieve that email?

Here's my time line.
Arrived New Zealand Sept 2012 work visa
Applied resident visa July 2014
Approved resident visa April 2015
Approved PR May 2017
Applied Citizenship Jan 2020
Email received to confirm details April 2020

Hi bennyj,
I also received that e-mail asking to confirm postal address.

[Kelerei]

The emails to confirm postal address is likely because the Department of Internal Affairs is now directly posting citizenship certificates (citizenship ceremonies having been suspended, and the requirement to attend one waived, due to COVID-19). That's a document that one definitely doesn't want to go missing...