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I got ceremony EOI email today afternoon (and ofcause reply YES). @millski88 congratulations mate.

Congratulations @millski88 . Finally!!!!

Thanks @IndianzinOZ Yes the Casey is not doing much. Also I'm still waiting for the ceremony. Hope for the best.

I got approved early November and I know people who got approved in September still waiting for ceremony in Casey. No you can select any council. It will be your residence address council.

apart from the auto reply, haven't heard anything yet.

I'm from City of Casey and agree with you mostly. However, eventhough the council under administration the citizenship ceremonies are in-progress. (not enough to clear the back-log)

Got below reply.

Quite possibly the reason maybe now they are clearing the backlog from 250,000+ to 125,000 and people are getting approved faster. That eventually affect building backlog in ceremony invitations (as each ceremony have a limitation of 100 or so).

Home affairs updated the citizenship processing timeline, it's now taking 6 months from Approval to Processing (Which earlier was 5 Months) .

Congratulations. But it's really wiered as my application approved in early November 2019 in same council and haven't received ceremony invitation yet. Not sure what should I do.

Yes. 100% from our common bond. Instead when you read it, it says which sections are testable and which are not. As of today all questions are from Chapter 1 to 3.

You can download a copy of "Our common Bond" from here https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/citizenship-subsite/files/our-common-bond.pdf Also if you visit any council library , you can borrow a copy of this. To practice test, there are many online resource available including below. https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/citizenship/test-and-interview/prepare-for-test/practice-test

Yes it is ok.

the citizenship application ask you to provide future travel plans. so still you can submit your application with the future travel arrangements which already you made. Any unplanned travel, You can let case officer knows (Through the immi account)

Department of Homes affair updated the Global visa and citizenship processing times as below.

if you got work experience AFTER you certified CISSP you can possibly claim points for work experience and ACS recognized CISSP as equivalent to Diploma , so you may claim 10 points.

a) You can use https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/help-support/tools/residence-calculator b) Yes, you can not complete your application before you're eligible date. c) You can use same immi account with two different application. i.e.: your immi account , but two seperate applications

Hi Rizwan. You will received another email with the appointment details quite possibly withing 2-3 days. That email will contain the link that you can reschedule the exam if you wish to. thanks

*****FURTHER UPDATE****** City/Council area - CITY OF CASEY Online / Paper - ONLINE Date of Application - 16-AUG-2019 Date of email - 21-OCT-2019 Original Test date - 03-Mar-2020 Reschedule test date - 08-Nov-2019 Test Pass - 8-Nov-2019 Approval - 8-Nov-2019 I just pass the test with full score and literally 5 minutes after the test, got approved. They also told me that the ceremony will be probably within 3 months. Seems we are looking for Australian Day 2020.

*****FURTHER UPDATE****** City/Council area - CITY OF CASEY Online / Paper - ONLINE Date of Application - 16-AUG-2019 Date of email - 21-OCT-2019 Original Test date - 03-Mar-2020 Reschedule test date - 06-Nov-2019

*****UPDATE****** City/Council area - CITY OF CASEY Online / Paper - ONLINE Date of Application - 16-AUG-2019 Date of email - 21-Nov-2019 it appears the turnaround time for letter is now 3 months. The test date is March 2020

Date applied - 16/8/19 City/Council area - City of Casey / Victoria Online / Paper - Online Date received the acknowledgement email - 16/8/19 Date of the Citizenship Test - TBA Citizenship approval letter - TBA Date of ceremony - TBA Type of ceremony - TBA

CISSP will be recognized by ACS as comparable to AFQ Diploma so you will get only 10 points, unless you have bachelor degree which gives you 15. There is no special treatment for CISSP now. (Few years back there was a special category for CISSP, which was discontinued since 2011)

as per the skill assessment it is 10 points to you. but i have reasonable doubts that since you have bachelor and master, at least they should go to comparable bachelor, not diploma. So i would suggest to go for decision review.