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Hi, i found this on another forum people should take action if affected by delays

If you are affected by Citizenship delays, the only way to make a difference is to contact the following Government bodies:

1. Lodge a complaint with DIBP/Home Affairs Global Unit on their website: https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/contact/provide-feedback/compliments-complaints-suggestions
2. Lodge a complaint with Commonwealth Ombudsman: https://forms.business.gov.au/smartforms/servlet/SmartForm.html?formCode=oco-complaint-form
3. Lodge a complaint with ANAO (click on the Contact Us page and quote the audit mentioned in the link): https://www.anao.gov.au/work/performance-audit/efficiency-department-immigration-and-border-protection-processing

On 12/22/2017 at 09:22, londonluci said:

This whole thing is just so inconsistent and frustrating! Still no sign of approval here, application done in Feb 17, test in June. Nothing since. Sydney CBD.

Why do they give approval next day for some and then don't approve and put some of us on hold like this for many months/years? It is mental torture and i lost 2 Gov job opportunities with 6 figure salary, they gave up on waiting for me even though they want my skills. Financially and career wise i have been severely affected.

I am sure, like me your documents are all clear, i have no issues with ID docs infact at my interview the Officer was very impressed how i had everything in order and legit. I have very clean record since birth didn't even harm a fly, I really hope they conduct some investigation into this and immediately process all these apps, it is really wrong to withhold our citizenship from us which we are eligible for. When i google other countries, citizenship usually takes 2 weeks to 6 months maximum, just in near past Australia was processing in 80 days.

Government only needs to read this thread to understand the scale of the problem.

Anyone else did the test on Nov/Dec 2017 and still waiting approval? It seems like i'm the only one who did the test in Nov/Dec period without an approval everyone got approved in that period. 

appreciate ur help

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