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British Nationality: Hornsey and Friern Barnet

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that applications for naturalisation are concluded within a reasonable timeframe and; what progress her Department has made in reducing the backlog of app

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
13 Nov 2025
Target answer date
17 Nov 2025
Answer
18 Nov 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that applications for naturalisation are concluded within a reasonable timeframe and; what progress her Department has made in reducing the backlog of app

  2. 17 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 18 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The service standard for the processing of a straightforward application for British citizenship is six months.The most recent Migration Transparency data published in August 2025 shows that 99.36% of straightforward applications were decided within servi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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