the_new_citizen

Any May 18 applicant got the test invite?

yes that would be interesting info

I applied by myself and took me 17 months to get PR with cost of $3000 some examples of citizenship application timeline 1st case Submitted: 22-Oct-2017 Test invite: waiting Council: Sydney 16 months already. The invite will definitely come when I'm still alive~~~ 2nd case 18.5 months since lodgement... still no interview invitation.. only automated checks appeared and no word from a case officer yet 3rd case Myself and kids timeline Applied 24 April 2018 Acknowledged same day Test invitation recvd: 11 Feb 2019 Test date: 15 May '19 (planning to reschedule to an earlier date) Spouse Applied 25 April 2018 Acknowledged same day Test invitation recvd: waiting Test date: waiting

Previously I was thinking to vote for coalition. But now I'll vote labor party. After all we are labor's in our jobs

I have been waiting for more than 10 months. One of my friend waiting for more than an year now. He called and got the generic reply. Migrants have to pay a good amount to get PR, then if they marry with some overseas partner they need to pay additional approx $8,000. Funny thing is that almost 40/50% skilled migrants goes to Sydney and Sydney has only 1 testing centre and one in parramatta (Where almost 80-90%) are migrants. It like having a 100Gbs speed available but bandwidth is only 1K

Hi Chris: its all arguments, from my side take it lightly . I am surely not against anyone. Everyone who came to Australia(one way or other) has the same right to live here peacefully.

well, that is the point. They have put people in a long painful waiting queue and now demand that people should not argue how they process. at least tell them a clear cut status over the phone, they just provide a general answer. At least tell the applicant at what stage his/her application is. Someone applied in Jan 2018 and not getting a test call and someone applied in March 2018 and getting the test call will make people suffer mentally.

I agree with your point but if you read some of the news, processing delays were blamed to the people who came to Australia on boat. Its not me who is having this opinion, it is the government official point of view on sbs website. Please see the below link (21 August 2018). Stop blaming me that I am blaming people came on boat ( I wish them best of the life in Australia). I am not against them, they are human like us. https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/punjabi/en/article/2018/08/21/australian-citizenship-more-staff-be-deployed-process-backlog “Second point is that we did overall increase the identity checks and security checks about 12 months ago. “And thirdly, we are dealing with that big backlog of the boat arrivals from three or four years ago, which are now coming through for citizenship,” he said.

First of all I am not blaming people coming on boats and applying for citizenship. My point is that both of them should be processed differently, and why not processed in two queues for managing the load efficiently ? secondly how can I blame federal gov? alright they stopped the processing for 6 months but what happened afterwards? Have you read the audit report? Also you know why detailed security checks are included in citizenship. A person who came on skilled immigration was granted PR after a detailed security check and then he lived in Australia for 5 years without any criminal history and never been out of Australia for more than 90 days. How can that person in circumstances equals to a person who came on boat, granted PR, have no documentation or previous security check issue. How can a complex application equates to a straight forward application? Why both are not going into two streams? (No blame to people who came on boat, I wish them very best of life in Australia) For example you pay your strata fee on time for an apartment but not the owner of next apartment to you, will you wait for strata to fix the building problem after dealing with the owner next to your apartment? Lastly I am not blaming DIAC or government, I am just pointing out that why not an efficient model of processing can be in place? Why it is so difficult to implement an SOP for complex and simple application? and why not both be processed in different queues? Principally they are different in nature.

OK I accept your point. But tell me how both types of applications will be efficiently process and how can this process become faster?

The link is that the people who arrived in boats are with incomplete documentation. There is no specific team which is dedicated for those complex applications. Because of that the people who came on skilled migration visa are suffering a daring delay. IF anyone came on genuine visa and his/her documentation is complete and was also gone through extreme background security checks when obtaining skilled visa should be shown some respect. Why not two different streams? complex applications (boat arrivals / refugees) should be processed in a different queue rather than in the same queue of skilled migrants. Why not?

No it is not. Atleast I am unable to find this info in report. That why i said it is "Shudni" (rumor). for other two facts. It seems that they are treating Donkeys & horses the same manner. Either you are a skilled migrant (paying huge amount of taxes) or a boat arrival-er (taking huge sum of financial support) you are same. What a pity for tax payers.

somebody shoot a "Shudni" (rumor) that 80% of applications would be processed till June 2019 (End of current financial year)

general number will be fine...you can call now...at this time of the day, load will be minimal and your call would be attended in 5-10 minutes.

strange!!! better to call and get the status. in many cases people called and status changed to approved within a week