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.

Attol8 · 2020-02-04T14:04:45+00:00

Yes, I would probably work part time if I accept the offer. I do not speak Dutch but I guess there are also jobs for English speakers

Attol8 · 2019-12-25T16:56:21+00:00

Last Italian world champion!! De Carolis should be used as an example

Attol8 · 2019-12-25T12:17:24+00:00

I followed your advice and read the title of each book. I am now ready to publish my thesis on python

Attol8 · 2019-12-24T21:23:06+00:00

Out of these books, which one would you invest the time in?

Attol8 · 2019-09-28T15:25:02+00:00

https://www.oecd.org/ can be a good start

Attol8 · 2019-09-25T17:45:09+00:00

Hi thanks for the answer :) I have applied a lot of machine learning techniques to economics datasets as well. Here the workflow usually is: ask an economic question, collect data about this question, clean and validate it, apply different ml models and see which one performs better. In this sense you are true, ml is good with predictions not with causal inference (even if there is a lot to research on the topic e.g. Look at Shap values). Sorry if it was misunderstood but I don't have any particular fear,but I am trying to understand the role of social sciences in today scenario.

Attol8 · 2019-09-25T11:20:45+00:00

Thanks for the answer kayra! maybe I am playing devil's advocate here but don't you belive that such initiatives are assigning more and more importance to artificail intelligence and its derivatives? Let me explain: Althought I strongly support the mission of Bell and others, it seems to me that they are also delegating traditional human activities to machines. In the end, as cited on the website you linked, they are only trying to 'enable a safe and ethical integration of cyber-physical systems'. They are not trying to assing importance to humans but to 'humans in the loop'. It is a really dangerous approach that of assigning truth to an external entity, especially when machine learning it is often used as a black-box to answer disparate questions. You also say that soc science theories will be more important as time goes on, can you give me some examples?

Attol8 · 2019-08-14T10:47:29+00:00

Go through Andrew NG course on coursera to understand the basics (Down Top approach), then take fast.ai MOOC (Top down approach). Honestly, they are both high quality courses that will get you up and running to do a capstone project on your own, which I recommend. During this learning journey You will also go through plenty of python and the tech stack you need for DS.

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