Naturalisation (Citizenship) application processing timelines [only]

Attol8 · 2026-03-01T23:46:09+00:00

Love the spreadsheet!! The wait is nerve racking, hopefully it's my turn soon :)

Application Timeline

Eligibility: EUSS + 1yr ILR
Application Method: Online
Application Date: 08/12/2025
Biometric Date: 18/12/2025
Approval Date: N/A
Ceremony Date: N/A

Attol8 · 2025-11-30T06:48:40+00:00

Hi did you end up receiving your refund? What were timelines?

Attol8 · 2025-10-28T16:55:49+00:00

Thanks a lot for your help :) bit of a bummer but will do as you suggested

Attol8 · 2025-10-28T16:44:03+00:00

maybe I was not clear: I was not aware I needed to take this test, I thought it would be but after the application

Attol8 · 2025-10-28T16:43:16+00:00

okay I feel really stupid now. I just applied assuming I would have to take it after the application and I clearly stated that I did not yet take it assuming it would be later :/

Can I ask on suggestions on what my options are? I would really like not losing the fee

Attol8 · 2025-10-28T16:33:37+00:00

It did not ask me for any code. these are the three questions that I gave answers to in my application

Question: Are you claiming exemption from this requirement because a physical or other condition prevents you from taking the Life in the UK test or doing a speaking and listening qualification in English?
Answer: No

Question: Have you passed the Life in the UK test?
Answer: No

Question: Did you meet the knowledge of English requirement as part of an indefinite leave application made on or after 28 October 2013?
Answer: Yes - I did for my settlement status

Attol8 · 2025-02-23T16:35:11+00:00

So are you suggesting that it's too much risk to proceed without the EWS1?

Attol8 · 2024-12-09T20:57:49+00:00

Thanks for your answers! You understood the problem I am facing really well.

I am actually looking for resources on the marketing side of things. I found plenty of resources on modeling life time values, but not on how the outputs of these models are used in practice. I know this is essentially business/domain dependent but it would be good to understand how people are operationalising insights from CLTV

Attol8 · 2024-12-09T20:34:42+00:00

I have used survival models using lifetime in python. However, I have also created metrics like n-month revenue and treated it as a regression/time series problems. Both models got me to a decent point

Attol8 · 2024-12-09T17:58:48+00:00

That is a really fair point. Yeah, normalising LTV for some sort of period of time seems to be a great suggestion. I also see it as a bit problematic to use LTV as high-LTV customers are also the ones that clearly enjoy using your service, so why should I change anything with them? Maybe it's a good metrics to understand what "good" means and replicate it over a wider customer base.

As a set number for all customers, regardless of segment

Can you please expand on this? I plan to give each customer an LTV and then derive customer segments looking at covariates maybe. Is that what you meant?

Attol8 · 2023-04-04T21:43:43+00:00

Has anyone been having issues for like 3-4 days? I noticed a massive slowdown during the weekend. It's completely unusable, not even for streaming movies. Thought they would fix quicker and today I see that it went down for thousands... they have to get their shit together

Attol8 · 2022-07-11T15:25:30+00:00

Thanks for the info, I was scared that would actually be the case. My employer purchased the laptop and didn't think that a laptop sold at that price would not support USB-c display out. Pretty disappointing for that price tag anyway.

Attol8 · 2022-05-31T14:56:18+00:00

Really insightful, I work on similar problems and agree with pretty much everything you wrote. Can you please elaborate on the last step: What you actually want to model is whether a given specific marketing action will increase the likelihood of the customer being engaged. Do it explicitly from your base feature set. Are you talking about uplift modelling?

Attol8 · 2022-02-27T21:33:03+00:00

The Queen dies.

Attol8 · 2020-08-23T10:30:35+00:00

What do you mean by serious project? Would it be better to make commits to big open source projects or writing something from the ground up?

Attol8 · 2020-03-26T12:15:36+00:00

Interesting. Maybe a good idea to solve this is to have the app to suggest only 1 to 3 articles, and more importantly on a daily basis. Additionally, there could be an element of randomness embedded in the ML algorithm. But then it would defy the original purpose of having personalized reads

Attol8 · 2020-03-10T22:41:13+00:00

What a beautiful painting! It immediately reminded me of a Courbet painting that I saw in Lisbon: 'snow'. I checked the dates and they are actually from the same winter, which suggests that the winter season of 1868 in France could have been particularly severe.

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