My All Important Brown Envelope Arrived Today

[dolphingirl47]

I am having a very happy Friday. My letter of approval for British Citizenship arrived today. Graham emailed me at work to let me know that an official looking brown envelope had arrived. I rang him as soon as I saw this and asked him if he opened it, which he had not. I asked him to open it. The letter is actually dated 12th October. I asked him what the date on the letter was, but I knew the answer before he told me. Last Friday I had one of my admin days at work. Amongst other things, they are there so that we can do our call monitoring, which to say the least is not my favourite part of the job. Still, I was fine and getting on with the job at hand. Suddenly around 15:00, I got really antsy, could not concentrate and just could not settle down to anything. This lasted for about 45 minutes and then I was fine again. I am sure that this is when the case worker looked at my file and made the decision.

Actually strictly speaking, I did not get a letter of approval. I got the invitation to a citizenship ceremony, which normally comes a bit later. So I don't know what happened to the actual approval letter. Still, this has everything on it that I need.I rang the local council straightaway to try to organize the citizenship ceremony, but they have not received the paperwork from the Home Office yet. I did manage to get out of the person I spoke to that they are currently scheduling citizenship ceremonies for 7th November, which is of course precisely the date I want. I need to ring back on Monday. Keep your fingers crossed for me that they still have slots for this on Monday. Today we will celebrate with steak and chips and a bottle of Rosa Regale.

Corinna

 

[katiec]

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Congratulations. X

 

[tennisfan]

Congratulations & fingers crossed you get a slot for the 7th Nov

 

[mandymouse]

Congratulations Corinna, that's great news

 

[PJB71]

wonderful news Corrina

 

[Ware Bears]

Congratulations Corinna will be keeping everything crossed that you get the date you want.

 

[catherine]

Congratulations Corinna, that's wonderful news!

 

[dolphingirl47]

Thanks for all the good wishes. This is a strange time at the moment. I am so relieved that my application has been approved, but I am not a British citizen yet as I have to attend the ceremony first. Still, this is only a question of time.

Corinna

 

[paul_toria96]

Congratulations, hope you have heard if you have got the date you wanted

 

[dolphingirl47]

Unfortunately not. When I rung back last Monday, the first date they could offer me was 21st November, but I am in Florida then. So I have now booked the ceremony for 5th December.

Corinna

 

[Ware Bears]

A very appropriate date for a Disney lover!

 

[dolphingirl47]

I had not made this connection, but you are of course right. This makes this a lot sweeter.

Corinna

 

[Wills Mom]

That is brilliant news Now you'll be able to celebrate in style on your trip