MLB_Applicant

19 hours ago, Danish Saleem said:

If you are the primary applicant and you have your email then you will receive one invite which covers everyone , your invite should say something to indicate that this invite is extended to your family as well , I have not receive any invite but I am saying this because this is what happen to one of my friend 

My wife is primary applicant and she is not received invitation. In my invitation they haven’t mentioned extended to family members.

Both myself and my wife applications got approved on 28th March 2022 . Today, I received a ceremony invitation for 17th Sept 2022(Wyndham City Council), but my wife hasn't received ceremony invitation yet. Both the applications are linked at the time of test/interview. Does anyone faced this situation. Suggestions are welcome.

Has anyone got a citizenship ceremony invite from Wyndham City Council for 17th (or )18th September?

15 hours ago, Kuwind said:

People approved upto 11 mar reported invitation.. even 15 mar approved hasnt received invite.. so now next ceremony September

Thanks for update. 

Did anyone receive citizenship ceremony invitation for 24th July in Wyndham Council? My application moved to approved state on 28th March 2022 and waiting for invitation.

Anyone got ceremony invite for 24 July in Wyndham council?

Did any March 2022 applicants received the  ceremony invite in Wyndham Council.

12 hours ago, Kuwind said:

Anyone from wyndham council had ceremony today.. if so what was the approval date please.. trying to get an idea how far is wyndham in ceremonies.. thanks

Total number of people waiting for ceremony in wyndham council as on 27th Jan 2022 : 888 (as per recent FOI ).  We don't have information about waiting people after 28th Jan 2022. Total number of ceremonies conducted on 10th April 2022  was 540. I think roughly around 1000 people are in waiting state as on today(11th April 2022).

6 hours ago, MerryPumpkin said:

Just an update for anyone waiting in Vic.

We received our Ceremony invite yesterday 4 April for next month 4th of May.

Council: Glen Eira

Congratulations for receiving ceremony invite. May I know your application approval date?

5 hours ago, VIC-WAIT-GAME (NO WAY HOME) said:

Many congratulations. Could you please confirm, how were you able to reschedule the test?

Thank You. Please use the below link to reschedule your original appointment by entering your clientID, FamilyName.

https://appointments.homeaffairs.gov.au/login

Please find my citizenship details below.

Citizenship Application Submission : 28th Jan 2021

Test/Interview invite: 18th March 2022

Test/Interview:  28th March 2022 ( original date was 21st April 2022 and rescheduled to 28th March 2022)

Approval: 28th March 2022 (Approved after 2 hours of test completion)

Council  : Wyndham City Council, VIC

Ceremony: Waiting

Does someone share the current waiting time for ceremony in Wyndham city council?

2 hours ago, username303 said:

Application date: 30th June 2021 from Melbourne. 

Status on Immi is still showing as Received. It's been 9 months now. Anyone else on the same boat as me?

Victorians are getting test invitations for Jan 2021 applications as per immitracker.

Any lucky victorian who applied bt 20  Jan 2021 - 31 Jan 2021 got test invite? Looks like victorian applications process has halted again.

Any lucky guys got test invite for Jan 2021 from Victoria?

3 hours ago, abey1 said:

Got the approval today!!

applied December 2020

test April 2022 rescheduled to today

approval - in less than 1 hr

ceremony- TBA

Glen Eira city council  

Wow. Congratulations Abey1.  May I know the date of lodgement.

Has anyone received test invite in VIC for January 2021?

6 hours ago, abey1 said:

No luck yet. Did you?

No. I applied on 28th Jan 2021 and waiting to clear year 2020 queue first.

On 18/02/2022 at 08:25, abey1 said:

 

Hi Abey1, did you get any luck for your test invite?

Has anyone got citizenship test invite between 15-Dec-2020 to 31-Dec-2020 in Melbourne/VIC?

On 15/02/2022 at 14:56, Waiting_in_vic said:

Appointment and test pass about half an hour ago. I was in the Centrelink building for all of about half an hour in total. More annoyed I'd paid for parking until 16:00 

Is it opened most of the centrelinks  for test or interview? May I know which centrelink had your test?

Is it opened centrelink for test/interview. May I know which central link had your test?

does under 15 years old  child  who added in the parent citizenship application require to attend interview & test?

13 minutes ago, citseeker said:

Only the approval process sits with federal ... 

invitation to test and interview and ceremony resides with the individual state.. which is why WA SA TAS have relatively much quicker turn around time

The entire process will be maintained by fed govt. The list of candidates for invitation, test, interview and even ceremony will be sent to the respective state govt/councils by fed govt. All the state/councils are only facilitators. The candidates list has to get from fed government to conduct either test/interview/ceremony.

35 minutes ago, Yameen said:

This is my theory. Victorian government thinks that by slowing down the whole process they might be able to contain that work force which has plans to leave the country for sometime after getting the citizenship. This might be helpful specially when new migrants are not being allowed to come in and there is an increasing shortage of workers in different sectors.

All the citizenship applications will be processed by Federal Government and nothing to do by Victorian government. The entire credit delay of processing victorian applications goes to federal government.

1 hour ago, mansbrofessor said:

100% Agree! This entire process takes place end to end online. Using 2020 and 2021 as an excuse for the delays in Vuctoria is pathetic. 

Other states have been hit quite hard as well and managed to keep things under control and turn around time are very reasonable. 

They should either hire more staff to churn through more applications and bring down processing times to a reasonable pace in line with the rest of the country or remove inefficiencies in their current process, which doesn't seem to be working out too well with no end in sight 

 

NSW hit very harder than VIC in the second half of 2021 (1st July 2021 to 26th Nov2021 ). I could see that the number of tests conducted in NSW from 1st July 2021 to 26th Nov 2021(within 5 months) was around 80K. 16K applications per month  processed in NSW and hardly very few/none from Victoria in this period. This is nothing to do with long lockdown of Melbourne. Looks like intensionally delaying Victorian applications.  Now a days every state is getting test invites within 6 months except Victoria(taking around 15 to 18 months) which is not acceptable.