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13 hours ago, Success21 said:

My Citizenship Application was approved in March 2022

I still did not receive citizenship ceremony invite and waiting for more than 12 months from approval date now

Is there anyone here from Brisbane City Council?

Anyone received ceremony invite for 9 May 2022 or 30 May 2022 at Brisbane City Council?

When was your application approved?

Which suburb are you located?

If you are outside of Australia, you will not receive an invitation for ceremony.

Your application will be on hold until you come back to Australia.

4 hours ago, Success21 said:

Hi All

Is there anyone knows do Brisbane City Council conducts Virtual Ceremony?

My application approved in March 2021 and still waiting for ceremony

Your ceremony will be on 26/1/2022. You will get invitation in the first week of January 2022.

39 minutes ago, ozshuttler said:

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. 

Yes, BCC mentioned in their website that they can only host 600 per ceremony.

If they host only 600 people for each ceremony, ~8100 will need 13 months to clear. That will be a huge backlog because DHA Brisbane conducts about ~2000 test per month.

Anyway, need to wait for the updated statistic.

On 14/06/2021 at 16:25, ozshuttler said:

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.

Number is increasing from Nov 2020. There were 4,312 clients whose applications for citizenship by conferral had been approved and were waiting for a citizenship ceremony hosted by the Brisbane City Council as 30 Nov 2020.

Also, below is the number of applications who attended citizenship ceremonies per month at BCC from Jan 2020 to Sep 2020. I'm waiting for the updated number until 2021. 

Looking at the number of 2020, it seems that BCC can increase number of invite to ceremonies per month. That's up to them. If they invite about 2000 applicants per month, ~8100 applicants will only need 4 months to reach. But the big question will be, how many people they invite per month? 

I'll wait for the updated numbers and let you know.