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Hi Guys any idea how long it is taking from citizenship ceremony to recieving the certificate. I know the guidance is 3 weeks but any actual tes experienced by people ? 

6 hours ago, Olivia_1993 said:

was she too excited to reach the SALE in ZARA?

Yes, there maybe issues, until her application is approved.

Haha. All good application approved today. 

Another question: my wife had a test on friday in sydney city office. 

I remmeber from my experience in parramatta office that we had to raise our hand and show the examiner that we have passed before leaving. The instruction to my wife were not clear and she left the centre after passing the test. 

Any potential issue with this ? Anyone had a similar experience. 

3 hours ago, stazi said:

 

 

I submitted my FOI request through the Department (https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/help-and-support/departmental-forms/online-forms/foi). Nothing special in the formatting - just asked for the number of people waiting for a ceremony in the Lane Cove council. 

I submitted one in Feb as well asking for numbers of people waiting for a ceremony in all Sydney councils, but they refused that one because it was too broad I guess.

Thanks Stazi. 

15 hours ago, stazi said:

Hi all,

Received my citizenship ceremony invite today. It's been 8.5 years in Australia and I'm so happy to have finally received this email.

I applied for citizenship last May, passed my test at the end of January and got the invite today for May 15th. 

Also, if anyone's interested - I submitted an FOI request for a number of people waiting to be allocated to a ceremony in Lane Cove and received the response yesterday. As of 31 March 2021, there were 287 people waiting for a ceremony.

Hope you all get your citizenship test letters/ceremony invites soon  Stay positive!

Congrats !

Can you please share the format of tge email and where you send it to ? 

1 hour ago, cyril_au said:

Nothing special, really - just a standard pack: 1195, photos, proof of first entry, utilities bill, bank statement, passport copy (expired, my country's embassy was too slow), birth certificate (NAATI translated and the original one).

I've put NSW - Sydney as a preferred appointment location and Canterbury-Bankstown as my council.

One factor that might have affected the processing time (of course if we assume that it is not entirely random) can be that I applied exactly in one year time after receiving my PR status, so I would expect they didn't need to make any further enquiries into my penal clearance status with other countries.

Hi Cyril

I am from NSW Canterbury bankstown as well. I applied 7Oct and got the inviation for test on 8Apr (rescheduled and application approved on 15Apr). 

Lets keep in touch for ceremony. One thing i notice is that i mentioned the city office but i was invited to parra for assesment.  

3 hours ago, David Ng said:

Don't worry about that. They will go through all your uploads on the day of your Interview. If you uploaded a high enough quality colour scan of your original birth certificate, that will be enough. I used the same scan for my Visa application 7 years ago, and for my Citizenship application, they didn't ask for any additional documents from me on my interview date.

They may still ask for it, but it is very unlikely!

For me the case officer did ask to see the original through the glass along with passport, DL and medicare card. 

So I suppose err on the side of caution and try to get it here before the interview if you can.

28 minutes ago, David Ng said:

Correct, I didn't get any notification when our applications were approved (the same was reported by many other users).

I just checked my ImmiAccount daily and saw my applications changed to approved (I know, I was a bit impatient but who wasn't?!)

Cool. Thanks for the info. 

Judging the the posts from other members it appears it is just luck the time from test to approval. Some people got it straight away and some had to wait weeks. 

I will also be the impatient one and check daily !

1 hour ago, David Ng said:

Just emails and messages in the List of correspondence when logged into ImmiAccount

Hi David,

It appears that we dont get my email or message in this account once application is approved after test? We just have to keep checking out account ? 

For all members my timeline is below

Application date 7Oct20

Test invitation date 8Apr21 

Test date: 13Apr21 (rescheduled from 6May21)

Status: waiting for approval 

Council: Canterbury Bankstown (NSW)

Please feel free to ask me any questions about my application.