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My bad it is a bit late.

Congratulations mate, lucky you, It is quick. Best of luck your new beginning as a new naturalise Aussie .

Congratulations mate just last step left.

@D3xT and @Elliot Tsao Congratulations both of you to achieve the longest painful visa/citizenship process and become a citizen. Best of luck for your future life.

Congratulations mate. May I know where are you from and which council are you going to attend your ceremony?

April 2019 Citizenship processing times

Congratulations mate, Nice to hear it. I hope for you the best as a new Australian citizen. May I know it which country are you from and what is your council name? All the best mate. Lucky you

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/

Mohammad Al-Khafaji, chief executive of the Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia, agrees that citizenship has become a battleground in Australia’s immigration debate. “We know that citizenship has been politicised in the past,” he says, “and the delays in processing people’s citizenship has put a lot of pressure on families and has prevented people seeing their sick parents and people who don’t have much time left with their relatives just to ensure that them being outside of the country doesn’t affect the processing of the visas and citizenship status.” “THE DEPARTMENT ACTUALLY PUT REFUGEE APPLICATIONS IN A DRAWER AND FAILED TO LOOK AT THEM FOR OVER 12 MONTHS … WE THINK THIS WAS A DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO TRY TO DENY REFUGEES THEIR RIGHT TO CITIZENSHIP AS A FURTHER DETERRENT OR FURTHER PUNISHMENT.” https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2019/04/13/delays-citizenship-applications/15550776007988

congratulations mate

Wow, 23 months rather than 22 last time.

Thank you mate.

Thank you mate.

Congratulation mate, hope for you the best of as a New Australian citizen. I like to ask a few things I hope you don't mind. Do you got approved email first and ceremony afterwards or it was approved only on the system. Which council would you attend your citizenship ceremony?

Congratulation mate and best of luck for your future life as an Australian Citizen.

Congratulation mate. I hope you will get a citizenship ceremony as well.

The Victorian seat of Bruce, started pressing Peter Dutton for reasons as to why there were huge delays in the backlog of citizenship applications waiting to be processed. There are nearly 250,000 permanent residents living, working and loving here,” if they are so dangerous, why are they here? Why have they been here for four to 10 years? You can’t just say ‘national security’. According to the following article https://neoskosmos.com/en/129956/244765-immigrants-caught-in-australian-citizenship-limbo/

The Victorian seat of Bruce, started pressing Peter Dutton for reasons as to why there were huge delays in the backlog of citizenship applications waiting to be processed. There are nearly 250,000 permanent residents living, working and loving here,” if they are so dangerous, why are they here? Why have they been here for four to 10 years? You can’t just say ‘national security’. https://neoskosmos.com/en/129956/244765-immigrants-caught-in-australian-citizenship-limbo/

Congratulation mate.

Conferral - lodgement to decision 17 months to 21 months + Conferral - approval to ceremony would take 5 months to 7 months

The audit report, which is publicly available online, found that the number of citizenship applications has increased by 25 per cent over the past four years, with a total of 239,413 applications lodged. The audit report also found that the number of backlogged citizenship applications has increased by a whopping 771 per cent over the same time period. https://startsat60.com/discover/news/politics/could-you-pass-australian-citizenship-test

Dutton's department processed just 15% of citizenship applications last year Audit office’s damning review finds home affairs department working in neither a time-efficient nor resource-efficient manner. According to The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/13/duttons-department-processed-just-15-of-citizenship-applications-last-year

No mate same here just waiting for all citizenship processes to finish.

Hi everyone, I applied in March 2018 as well. No answer yet. I hope this month or next month just for the exam.