Anne McLaughlin – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Anne McLaughlin on 2016-02-22.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average length of time was for an application for British citizenship from submission of initial application to decision in the last 12 months.

James Brokenshire

The average length of time taken to consider an application for British citizenship in the period 1 October 2014 to 30 September 2015 was 108.89 calendar days. This is the most recent period for which statistics on the number of applications considered have been published. The service standard for citizenship applications is to decide 98.5% of cases within 6 months (183 calendar days).