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Any recent timelines for citizenship applications from Brisbane? How long is it taking to get a test invite?

yes I had ceremony in person at council event.

I have my citizenship certificate but when I enter the certificate number, the system is not able to validate it successfully. My immi account is still approved. Probably will have to wait two weeks as recommended in the citizenship ceremony welcome letter. Was just curious to see if anyone had any success applying soon after ceremony.

I finally got my ceremony on 17th September in SA. I updated my address to my holiday home in SA for a quicker ceremony, otherwise I'd be waiting many more months in Brisbane. Anyone tried applying for passport within 2 weeks of your ceremony?

If you're within the same council, you wont lose your spot in the queue. Hope you get your ceremony sooner! Good luck.

Vanakkam! Based on the date you submitted your change of address, your file will be allocated to the new council and you won't retain your spot. you will join the queue. source: personal experience. Regards, TN21 guy :D

Ok, came here to post a question regarding my friend's application now. Need some ideas on how we could get his application moving. Below is the timeline of my friend's application Applied for citizenship in Jan 2020; Location - Melbourne; Council Area - Brimbank Council Additional Applicants Included - Daughter (4 Years Old) and hasn't returned yet due to covid. Daughter Travelled Overseas with Mother in April 2020 after application due to family emergency. Application Status :Received. Applicant travelled overseas in Dec 2020 and returned June 2021. Application Status - Received. While there are many others from Melbourne region who have applied after him, had test appointments, we haven't had any progress on his application. How can we request to find why the application hasn't progressed. When contacted DHA we got a standard response that we need to wait as the timelines specified in DHA website is only for 75% and 90% applications. Is there anyway we could get exact reasons as to why his application is not being picked up.

There may be alternate options as you said, but you cannot decide for others anyway. There is always some reason that they find is more compelling based on their individual circumstance and even if it isn't compelling, the mere fact of proudly calling yourself an Australian officially is a good enough reason for people to seek getting to ceremony quicker. We all have been through so many hurdles to get here and it does makes sense for people to want to get it done ASAP particularly when they have been approved and the only last step is a ceremony.

My application has got approved today (Week since my test date). Now the waiting game for ceremony. Anyone knows what happens if I change my address on my immi account? will I have to supply any evidence of proof of address? Thinking of providing my brother's address in Sydney because the waiting time is far less than here in Brisbane. Also, NSW councils are running virtual ceremonies. so, will be great to get it quick to be able to access HECS-HELP for my Masters.

Wow, they've done 6500 invitations in Jan 2020. May be Australia Day ceremony event in a stadium or something? Somewhere I read their capacity is only 600 per ceremony event at their usual venue. If they can do so much, it is about time they clear the backlog sooner.

Yeah, to verify that the document is genuine. They asked me to sign a declaration to consent for privacy information sharing with the department. They will use this consent form and request NZ Justice for verification of my police clearance letter. Also, this step is only for NZ police clearance I believe because the declaration was specific to Ministry of Justice NZ and they did not ask similar declaration for my India Police Clearance.

On the FOI request form I entered only this line and the reply received as in screenshot i attached earlier.

Test completed today. My application is on Received status as my NZ police Clearance has to be verified before they finalise my case. The officer said it might be 2-5 days for verification but given most ppl here with received status had to wait 2 months for status change, I think I'm also on the waiting game. Next update after approval. Also, they indicated 6-8 months waiting time for ceremony in Brisbane city council. I did a FOI on number of applications awaiting ceremony in Brisbane city council and the number is ~8100.

Applied 19 Apr 2021; Test Invite Received - 11 June; Test Date - 7 July. Rescheduled for 15 June. Brisbane