The Home Affairs website states the department aims to finalise 90 per cent of citizenship applications within 23 months of lodgement.
In January, David Coleman, Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, said the approval rate had increased with an 83 per cent increase in applications finalised in the last six months of 2018 - almost 73,000 - compared with the same period 12 months before.
In October 2018, Home Affairs said 45,500 citizenship applications were finalised between July and October 2018.
It could not be ascertained whether more than 220,000 people waiting for their citizenship to be processed was the largest in Australian history as the Migration Council claimed.
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6078695/over-220000-waiting-in-citizenship-queue/