James Willingery

Hi Leanie. Great to see you here on this forum as well. It appears you are waiting longer than most applicants here. I would get in touch with DIBP to find out.

Congrats Rob. I hope you get into the big Australia Day ceremony in Jan. March seems a long time to wait. Good luck.

Hi Harriiii. Most applicants receive their approval letters within two weeks of passing the test. DIBP always maintain that they will consider applications on a case by case basis. To my understanding, a delayed decision often relate to high risk passports or region you had lived prior to or during your permanent residency in Australia.

Date applied - 06/07/2016 City/Council area - City of Greater Dandenong (Victoria) Online / Paper - Online Date received the acknowledgement email - 06/07/2016 Date of the Citizenship Test - 01/08/2016 Passed 100% Approval letter dated - 01/08/2016 Date of ceremony - 15/09/16 It is a pretty quick turnaround from DIBP. Good luck to all waiting.

Hi DranP I received my invitation letter from DIBP dated 22 August and my ceremony is 15th September. I will update my timeline shortly. Good luck!

Date applied - 06/07/2016 City/Council area - City of Greater Dandenong (Victoria) Online / Paper - Online Date received the acknowledgement email - 06/07/2016 Date of the Citizenship Test - 01/08/2016 Passed 100% Approval letter dated - Waiting Date of ceremony - Waiting CO told me that ceremony for my council is approximately 3-4 months from approval.

Hi. It was email notification. I received on 22/07/16 for test date early September. I managed to change it to early August. Dont worry mate. You will be getting your test notification soon. Melbourne is not too bad compared to other cities. I heard Adelaide is really quick though. Good luck.

bwatt99 I read somewhere that the wait time for test is about 4 months in Perth. Are you applying from Perth?

Good new guys. Citizenship test scheduled. Date applied - 06/07/2016 City/Council area - City of Greater Dandenong (Victoria) Online / Paper - Online Date received the acknowledgement email - 06/07/2016 Date of the Citizenship Test - 31/07/2016 Approval letter dated - Waiting Date of ceremony - Waiting Please share your citizenship experience with City of Greater Dandenong. Cheers.

Yeah I told DIBP I dont have the Centrelink Certificate and they said all good I dont need one. I still havent heard anything back yet from DIBP regarding my citizenship application, from the other people timelines, I dont expect anything for at 4-6 weeks. Anyhow, we will keep each other updated. Cheers.

Congratulation littlegreenman and thank you for your insights.

Hi roland Congratulation on your application. The turnaround from DIBP is very impressive. Please kindly post your timeline we can all get a clearer time frame and future updates. Cheers. James.

Much appreciated Jimm. Did they also send you a formal invitation letter via postal mail?

Australia is a great country. NZers are lucky because they do enjoy privileges in Oz where no other nationalities can. Good on them. Most are very hard working, honest people.

My wife was able to travel to NZ on Oz PR Visa and was grant NZ PR visa on arrival. I understand that once you have lived in NZ for two on PR visa, you can apply for Indefinite Resident Visa which will allow you to travel in and out of NZ freely without having to worry about your OZ PR Visa expiring. Just like Oz, NZ is a great place having lived there myself for 10 years. Good luck with your decision.

Congratulation Jimm. It is a pretty quick turnaround. Regarding your formal invitation to attend the ceremony, do you actually have to do anything (i.e., RSVP) to confirm your attendance? Cheers.

Date applied - 06/07/2016 City/Council area - City of Greater Dandenong (Victoria) Online / Paper - Online Date received the acknowledgement email - 06/07/2016 Date of the Citizenship Test - Waiting Approval letter dated - Waiting Date of ceremony - Waiting Please share your citizenship experience with City of Greater Dandenong. Cheers.

Hi Leanie Congratulation. Looks like your husband and I are in similar circumstances. NZer with PR Visa (not Pre 2001 NZer) applying for Oz citizenship. I have recently applied online and was surprised to be asked for Centrelink Certificate but not PCCs. I wonder if we need to contact DIBP to find out more.

Hello everyone. I am new to the forum and not very knowledgeable on Australian Citizenship. I hope you could give me some helpful insights into citizenship matters. I spoke to Citizenship line recently and was told that I would qualified to apply in June this year. My job requires me to travel overseas several times a year, each time ranging from one week to 6 weeks. Below are some facts to consider; *Counting backward 4 years from June 2016, as of now I have been away from Australia totaling 300 Days. *Counting backward 1 year from June 2016, as of now I have not been away at all. *I have just received an assignment which requires me to be away for about 50 Days starting from mid April to early June, thus meaning I will back in Australia just 3 weeks before the day I am eligible to apply. If I was to take this assignment, can I still apply in June this year or I will have to wait? *As I would get very close to the 12 months allowed to be away from the country over the last 4 years period counting from June 2016, does anyone know if traveling overseas during the gap period between being an approved applicant to citizenship ceremony would count toward the 12 months threshold? It is likely that I will have to take another trip while waiting for my ceremony. Thank you in advance to your kind advice.