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15 hours ago, jazzi87 said:

Citizenship Applied  on  25/10/2017

Test date                          05/10/2018

Approved                          16/05/2019

Ceremony                          01/07/2019

PERTH/COUNCIL  WANNEROO/INDIA/

 

 

My bad it is a bit late.

14 hours ago, jazzi87 said:

Citizenship Applied  on  25/10/2017

Test date                          05/10/2018

Approved                          16/05/2019

Ceremony                          01/07/2019

PERTH/COUNCIL  WANNEROO/INDIA/

 

 

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

3 hours ago, gkvithia said:

Fantastic Journey

Application 9th nov 2018
test date 6th June 2019 (rescheduled from oct14)
Approval 6th June 2019
URL = CERMNY
Council Banyule
CEREMONY =??? Hopefully August 2019 or October 2019
Country LR

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.

1 hour ago, Raaj1 said:

Hi guys I have received my ceremony invitation letter. My timeline 
Application lodged online : feb 2018
Got test date in November for January 2019
Approved same day
Ceremony letter recieved 26 april for 18th may.

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

April 2019 Citizenship processing times

21 hours ago, hb31 said:

Here’s my timeline now

Applied: 30/03/2018
Test: 24/02/2019
Approval: 11/03/2019
Ceremony Email: 17/04/2019
Ceremony: 25/05/2019
Start to end - 14 months
Location: Perth

Hopefully this info will be useful to someone here as it helped me while anxiously waiting.

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

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

5 hours ago, Boomerang8678 said:

Hi guys,

Thought I will share my timelines for the benefit of others:

Application online : 23 July 2017
Acknowledgement by email : 23 July 2017
Citizenship Appointment Letter Received : 6 December 2018 (roughly 17 months)
Citizenship Interview & Test Date : 7 December 2018
Citizenship Approved: 22 January 2019 (roughly 18 months)
Ceremony: 12 March 2019 (roughly 20 months)

It was a really taxing time with the constant change of timelines but glad its finally over. Thank you all for sharing your timelines and updates. It really helps give insight into what is generally happening. 

All the best for all those waiting. Hopefully you will get your good news soon!

congratulations mate

1 hour ago, kirsty160990 said:

processing times updated today 18/03/2019:

 

Wow, 23 months rather than 22 last time.  

15 hours ago, Elliot Tsao said:

@ence Thanks mate! I just tell you about my info: I actually live in the City of Darebin, Victoria. However, Darebin's right to hold OZ citizenship ceremony has been cancelled by the Department. Then the Department arranges me to make my pledge in the  Mel CBD, Federation Square than my Darebin city council.  

Thank you mate.

24 minutes ago, rammygirl said:

You can see the approval first inyour on line account, a letter should follow. You will be invited to attend a ceremony in the council you nominated on your application, that is where you live. The council should send a letter of invite to a ceremony when they get your name from immigration. You can often check ceremony dates on your council website or give them a call to see how long the waiting list is. 

Thank you mate.

9 hours ago, Elliot Tsao said:

Dear  all of my friends here,

Long time disappeared due to going to home country for holiday and Chinese New Year celebration with my family. 

 

*LATE NEWS*BREAKING NEWS*

I have been APPROVED  as at 27 Feb, I checked email inbox on this Tuesday 5 March, found OZ Ceremony Invitation letter, unbelievable, THEN I checked IMMI Account: APPROVED 

Thus's  I am really approved by the DHA of my second Home country

 

I am allocated to the Federation Square for attending my pledge in Melbourne, 26 March.

Finally, it is really a worried, tired but with expected result. 

 

Good luck to everyone, all of us will be receiving expected results SOON!!!

To be an OZ is always exciting and glorious! 

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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?

14 hours ago, redheaven said:

Updated timeline below:

Date Applied: 10/02/18

City/Council Area: Mosman, NSW

Online/Paper: Paper

Date received the acknowledgement email: 14/02/18

Date of Citizenship Test: 17/12/18

Date of Approval: 17/12/18

Date of Ceremony: 28/03/19

Normal priority

 

Time taken from application to ceremony: 13 months

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

54 minutes ago, jimmy2621 said:

hi everyone I just finished my interview today. 100% marks on my computer test. the officer at the counter was pretty nice.

i applied my citizenship in November 2017. it's 15 months wait. after the test this morning, my application status is still "received" but at least its a good sign. 

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/

4 hours ago, Rach Brisbane said:

Hi All, 

Update for Brisbane City Council applications:- 

Applied online- 9 March 2018

Acknowledgement by email the same day

Test appointment email received- 18 February 2019

Test scheduled for 7 March 2019

 

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

On 21/01/2019 at 17:09, Kikoo said:

Hi Guys,

I am new to the forum, but I had applied for citizenship by conferral on 08/03/2018. 

Still the status is : Received

from Sydney City Office.

anyone from march last year got any test email  

Thanks

 

 

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. 

25 months now...