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Had my ceremony this morning. Lodged: 2/11/20 Test: 10/3/21 Approved: 21/4/21 Ceremony: 15/10/21 Darwin City Council

Complete and upload form 1023 to your immiaccount. https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/form-listing/forms/1023.pdf

Status will remain as “Received”until you’ve taken the citizenship test and your application has been approved. Status will changed to “Approved” on the day you sit the test given you do the test in a DHA office. Applications processed through centrelink centres may take up two 8 weeks for approval. Centrelink tests are more common in regional Australia or in areas DHA is not present. Be patient. It’s gonna take a while.

1 - Take the old passport and your current driver’s license. If you get a new passport before interview date, bring both new and old. They’ll want to see the same document as the one in their records 2- Your new job is irrelevant for DHA at this point. No need to update anything. Cheers.

These are the documents they request: The questions in the test are very similar, in some cases they just rephrase the questions. The Australian values questions are common sense, really. If you've lived in Australia long enough, you know what it means to have free speech, respect the differences etc etc... Good luck, mate!

Hard to tell. I guess you'd better wait the 8 weeks timeframe they normally take to approve applications. The fact that they gave you this information means that they are aware you're back onshore and are definitely working on it. At least that... Hang in there!

It'll remain unchanged until after your application is approved, which will only happen after you've taken the citizenship interview and test. You'll likely to be invited in the next couple of months — you'll receive an email with the date, time and location of your test. Only then your application status will change to 'Approved'. After you've attended the Citizenship Ceremony, it'll change to 'Finalised'.

Update: PR: 26/10/19 (RSMS187) Citizenship Application: 02/11/20 Test: 10/03/21, Centrelink Darwin Ceremony Invitation: 14/07/21 Ceremony: 27/09/21 City of Darwin Council.

Me too. I had to wait 7 weeks, my partner waited 8 weeks. @Chelsearoxanna Have you done your ceremony yet? I think you had a date for when the lockdown happened, no?

Yeap. That’s it. ID and Security checks. For some countries it’s quicker to do that, for other a bit slower. Plus, whether you did your test at Home Affairs or Centrelink also makes a difference; the latter takes up to 8 weeks.

Hi RoEire, The Australian National Audit Office conducted inquiries into the ID Verification process (which is the approval stage) of Citizenship Applications in 2015. It does outline a longer process for tests conducted at Centrelinks as it relies on a different method to enter and communicate data. It should take up to 8 weeks, but delays are another thing that have been pointed out in the report. https://www.anao.gov.au/work/performance-audit/verifying-identity-citizenship-program

Yes, that’s what I would do. Choose Ukraine and leave a note in the comments section with the question number.

If they’re overseas certificates and they’re issued online, then it just print them and bring a NAATI-certified translation

1. Just as some trivia, Brazil issues both Federal and State police clearances online and they are issued instantly. 2. I have friends who received communication from DHA over the weekend regarding ceremony and interview.

Since you don’t have it, I guess you’ll have to bring the printed copy. I’d go to the interview knowing that you might have to rescheduled it and asked to return with the original one. In any case, I find it funny that they’re requesting you to bring the clearance when Home Affairs will do all the identity, background and police checks necessary after the interview but before approval . Let us know how it goes.

It can take up to 8 weeks before you’re approved.

Normal. Wait until it’s been 8 full weeks and give DoHA a ring and ask what’s the hold up. I wouldn’t stress too much about it, though. Depending on the area you’re applying (i.e. regional, whether or not there’s a Home Affairs office at your location or if centrelink is conducting tests), that might delay approval. My grandma used to say bad news travels fast. If it’s been almost 8 weeks, immi would’ve contacted you there’d been any problem. Hang in there, buddy.

1. Start preparing now, read the “Our Common Bond” booklet. https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/citizenship-subsite/files/our-common-bond-testable.pdf 2. The anthem is irrelevant. You won’t need it neither for the interview or the ceremony. No need to memorize it. 3. Do the DoHA test on their website. The questions are very similar. The values questions are common sense, really. https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/citizenship/test-and-interview/prepare-for-test/practice-test-new

No email. You’ve got to check immi account daily.

Don’t take it personally. Lots of people I know and myself included had to wait 8 weeks for approval. No apparent reason for the wait either. If you did your test through a centrelink rather than Home Affairs, that also delays approval as the whole process is done differently. The approval bit has to do with ID verification. Read this https://www.anao.gov.au/work/performance-audit/verifying-identity-citizenship-program

Call Home Affairs, but I think it’s a waste of everybody’s time. You’re still within the waiting time, so they’ll just tell you to wait.

Still waiting. What did you tell them? Did you have to give any compelling reason to get an invitation? When is your date?

The invitation letter is clear: bring any documents you believe will help prove your identity. You don’t have to show your drivers license, your passport will do. Bring both, along with your birth certificate and if they ask, you just tell what happened. You won’t be the first nor the last person who this has happened to.

Naturally. Each council has different ceremony dates and waiting lists. You can’t jump from a queue to another one and expected to be at the same place in it.

Your new job is irrelevant. No need to upload anything.