tech123

5 months after approval

I’m very sorry Shiela to hear that your application has taken this long. Is there any reason for the delay? I know that we have almost the same timeline upto the citizenship test. My family and I already attended our citizenship ceremony two weeks ago. Hope that immigration will find notice on the waiting time of your application.

Hi Sheila, we got the approval letters before australia day but unfortunately we were not included in the ceremony; hopefully on the next ctizenship ceremony. Hope you get your approval, just so frustrating to wait...?

Hope you get it next week. Our citizenship tests are just a week apart.

Thanks. I hope it changes soon. Think Immigration is trying to process as much as they can before the Christmas holidays.

My ImmiAccount citizenship status changed from Received to Approved on 15/12.

She took the test the same date as mine (june 15), we’re just 30 mins apart. Applied citizenship on March, I am the principal applicant.

My wife's status on the immiaccount changed from Received to Approved. Mine hasn't changed. I am thinking it might be because that my kids are under my application. I have a friend with her son under her application with the same status as mine and she had her test taken a month before us. She took her citizenship test on May 2017.

There is a long thread on citizenship, you’ll get a lot of info on the citizenship timelines nowadays. Check citizenship timelines 2015-2016. This covers 2017 applicants as well.

No update from me yet Shiela?

Hi Felix123, I asked DIBP about the same question. They told me that they will not email the approval letter but will be posted. They said it has something to do with the legislation.

I hope we all get our letters soon :-)

No...it's just a matter of how strong your faith is.....so others call it luck, some call it coincidence, but for me....an answered prayer:-)

Hi Sheila, still waiting here.

I guess prayers do work for me. Just this morning, 2 mins after doing my Wednesday novena prayers (which I have been doing for the last 15 years) I got a call from the citizenship dept checking on the movement of my son to Australia. Good thing is that the officer told me that they are already processing my application. Guess prayers work for some people after all :-)

81000 OMG! This stops me from making future plans.....I guess I just have to pray harder then:-)

Is the AFP check the main reason for the delay of the approval? I have called the citizenship dept last week and they told me to wait first for the approval that is sent by post (not by email). I am in touch with my council but everything goes down to what the DIBP feeds them. I was advised though by my council to contact them before the schedule of the ceremony just to double check if my name is in the list of attendees. You know, just in case gaps in communication happens.

Isn't the Immigration department linked with AFP? Do they really post the police record to the Immigration dept? There's a lot of people applying especially the NZ citizens. Hope this doesn't delay our approvals....I mean delay longer :-(

I noticed that Victoria approval is very slow as compared to the other states. I think it will become slower come July, due to the immigration changes....very bad!

I envy those from Perth, very quick with their approvals.... nothing that we can do but wait:-)

Hi Felix123, I think because I am in the Regional Victoria. See the instruction below: Appointments at a regional office of the Department of Human Services (DHS) If you are attending an appointment at a regional office of the DHS, an authorised DHS officer will confirm your identity, take your photo, collect a signature from you and examine original documents for all applicants including children. DHS officers are authorised under the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 to administer the citizenship appointment and test on our behalf. You do not need to bring the Form 1195 Identity Declaration to your appointment.

Congrats!!!! Life goes on :-)

Hi Felix123, read again the instructions in your test letter. I thought the same thing but if you read it carefully it says that when you applied online, you don't need to bring the 1195 copies. I had taken my citizenship test last week and I brought the originals of my 1195 but it wasn't asked. They will only ask for your passport, utility bill, driver's license and birth cert (or whatever identification you have provided in your application); for the child just their passport and birth certificate. They didn't even asked for the photographs which were attested. But then again just to be safe, you can also do what sheila advised you.

I hope you will get it soon. Sometimes if you don't expect, things will just happen. I did not change my appointment date but Elliot said he managed to change his date online.

I'm from regional Victoria. Ah I thought you are referring to the excel sheet for the processing times of this forum. I didn't know that you changed your appointment. I didn't change my appointment as I want to have more time to do the practice test.