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Yes.. From the trend what I could understand is, DIBP in Melbourne and Brisbane started processing applications. people who applied in Sydney and other locations have not received any test dates yet. Citi you applied, DIBP office(sydney has 2 offices CBD and Paramatta), case officers allocated to group of applications will decide the application progress. People who got the dates early are lucky.

It should be 4 years after you landed in Australia, on which date/month you come to australia in 2013?, if it is before 26th/Oct/2013, you should be eligible today.

Hi Mate, Below one is exists for long time and in use by most of the people from last 2 years https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JYRvi6XH4LKUvdCW5vmCG44U7VG469oZNQeKgceVDO4/edit?ts=589cfc5c#gid=0

You have to be in Australia for 4 years before apply for Citizenship.. when will you complete 4 years? If you moved to australia this may, you need to wait till May 2021 to be eligible for Citizenship.

Hi, You should be in Australia for 4 years minimum and last one year should be on PR to be eligible for Citizenship as per the old rules.

For now old rules will be applied, one year PR before apply for citizenship, if you are eligible, apply now. Government may come up with new bill later point, but for now bill is lost, people should be able to apply for citizenship as per old rules.

Take a screenshots of the errors and save them for reference.. it could be system error, I applied last month without any issues.

Same case may not be applied for Citizenship as each applicant has to go through Citizenship exam in first phase, which should be allocated in order based on your location and then ceremony dates needs to be given based on councils. so I think Department has to process the applications in order. They may speed up the process to clear the backlog. I know many people yet to apply and are waiting for bill status. once bills is officially doomed, DIBP will receive massive number of applications to process again.

Not sure below inf useful or not. People who become citizens recently got E-mails from DIBP like below... dear... you might aware that government recently announced changes to Australia citizenship process etc etc... like 4 years PR. and other major rules mentioned We want conduct new sample citizenship tests survey will be held at .... location, will be held in last week of October and first week of November... if you are interested to participate, let us know....we will reimburses your expenses. Thank you.... First of all bill it self is in dilemma and now DIBP is wasting the people money again on Surveys and sample tests. Cannot they wait for another one week to see weather bill can be passed or not?

Hi Ric, Lodging the online application is straightforward.. nothing confusing and easy to fill. It is definitely worth to lodge the application now.. Dutton canot pass the bill in current form.. In worst scenario he has to agree to process already lodged ones and convince Nick team.. you are safe in this situation if the bill is lost, you will be in queue already which is also good. if you have chance to apply now.. Apply now.. 350 application fee is nothing compared to the waiting times...

Hi, It is difficult to Answer, I did check with help desk the update I got is, we should inform them about our travel plans, so that they can put a hold on application till you come back and they said don't take longer vacation. After the case is approved( which mean you take the test and got confirmation that you citizenship application is approved) ,you are allowed to travel without any restrictions. but travelling before case is approved is not recommended.

Retrospective aspect: In government words: After the bill is passed, people should have 4 years on PR before they lodge citizenship application, this is applicable to the people who lodged the citizenship on or after April 20th. Bill is not passed yet and government can't stop the people to apply for citizenship as per old rules now. so they are using retrospective clause to apply the new rules from the date they announced the changes, which is April 20th. We will get the bill outcome in Oct, you would get the full info then.

I would strongly recommend to apply now, Nick team holds the key to pass the bill, and they already confirmed that people who already hold the PR before April 20 should be processed as per the old rules to get their support to pass the bill. in worst case, government may accept to the process the applications who already lodged and convince Nick team.

Nothing much happening at this point, NXT and liberals are not making statements on their stand, so nothing much we can expect till Oct 17th/18th. from the other posts looks DIBP has slowed down the Application processing, earlier majority of people used to get approvals less than 2 weeks after taking the citizenship test, but now they are takng more than 2-3 months to give approval, looks looks around 350 people are moved out from Immigration dept to some other resulting in application processing. So weather bill is rejected or approved, government has to speed up the pending applicaitons, otherwise people has to wait for at least an year to citizenship and lost of travel restrictions...