ACCA Membership Application

I applied on the day of the September results and got an application acceptance email today. From this point, it will take 5 working days to transfer the status from affiliate to member.

This is the information I received today: ‘Your membership status will be awarded within five working days, subsequent to the next meeting of ACCA’s Committee members, with email confirmation dispatched to you shortly thereafter. Your membership certificate will be sealed at the end of the month. Please allow up to twelve weeks from then for delivery of your certificate.’

I hope this helps!

I applied for membership on October 19 and have not received any email. Fingers crossed

I applied for membership on 19 Oct, got it on 22 Oct. Don’t wait for the email. I haven’t received one myself. I found out about my membership status by visiting myACCA, i.e. 1st, my welcome page became different (showing AGM results and voting) and 2nd, when you go to Account > Account details, you’ll see the membership date (my one says, “Membership date 22 October 2020”).

Hi everyone

I wonder if any of you have received the paper Certificate yet? I have membership approved in early September and still haven’t received it yet. I know it could take up to 12 weeks. But I thought I am based in uk should be quicker.

cheers
Jen

Has anyone applied for membership recently? I applied on 19th January and still waiting.

@rn2021 I applied on 18th January (results day) and got admitted to membership on 28th January.

Did you hear back from ACCA this week?

I applied on 22nd January but haven’t heard back still. I contacted them and they said the members support team are taking longer than usual to process.

Hi – I applied for membership on the date of result i.e. 18 January 2021 and received an email, the next day that my application is selected for review, and that the review will take upto 10 working days subject to confirmation from my employer/supervisor. Its been 19 workings days since that email and my supervisors haven’t received any communication from ACCA.

I keep emailing ACCA and they keep responding that there is no further update and that the process can take 10 working days subject to employer/supervisor confirmation. What should I do in such a case and who to approach at ACCA, apparently the Customer Services Team at ACCA does not understand that there needs to be an action from ACCA side to either ensure that my supervisor get their communication, if they have sent them any or they need to approve my application.

I will really appreciate any help on who to approach. I have over 14 years of relevant experience including 7 years at Big4 Accountancy firms and all of the PER requirements have been completed and recorded in myacca online account.

Not all applications are chosen for a review but the process of review seems inefficient to its core apparently there is no visibility on what is happening on your application and they keep telling you that your employer/supervisor might take longer to respond. My supervisors have not received any communication from ACCA and I have informed ACCA the same. ACCA still tells me my supervisor might take longer to respond!
I don’t understand what is wrong with the process here

@hulkhulk – very sorry to not have spotted your posts earlier. ACCA has lots of processes that are subject to review on a test/sample basis – a few years ago I was selected for CPD review and had to provide evidence that I had met the requirements. I was pleased to have used the recording tool because it was very easy to give permission for the reviewer to access – I didn’t have to fill out any forms or anything. But the review process still took a three weeks – as I recollect.

@nishreen – see here https://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/member/cpd/your-guide-to-cpd/cpd-what-you-need-to-do.html

“You should begin recording your CPD from 1 January AFTER you became a member.”

I’m not sure if you do CPD in 2021 if it counts in 2022 – you could ask directly https://forms.accaglobal.com/contact-us

In any case I recommend that you start recording using the CPD Evidence Record (“CPD recording tool”) in myACCA as soon as that appears to be available to you https://www.accaglobal.com/gb/en/member/cpd/managing-your-cpd/evidence.html
If it is available to you and you can record evidence in 2021 I think those units should carry forward to 2022 – but you would need to ask ACCA to confirm.

Going forward it is certainly the case that excess verifiable units can be carried for to the following year.

@Ore – it indicates here that it can take up to 12 weeks from membership for certificates to be received by local offices https://www.accaglobal.com/lk/en/member/membership/certificate.html

I recommend you contact your local office.