AUSTRALIAN CITIZENSHIP TIMELINES 2018-2019

[littlegreenman 10]

 

1. Date applied - 21/01/2016
2. City/Council area - Brisbane City Council
   
3. Online / Paper - Online
   
4. Date received the acknowledgement email - 21/01/2016 (auto generated email within 5 minutes)​
   
5. Date of the Citizenship Test invitation - 2/2/2016
   
6. Date of the Citizenship Test - 31/03/2016
   
7. Date of ceremony - Waiting
   
8. Type of ceremony (Urgent/Normal) - Waiting
   

 

[FlashP5sub175 13]

How long did it take everyone to get a date for the citizenship test after your acknowledgement letter?

that's the point of this thread. take a look at some of timelines. there maybe be one similar to your situation.

[Guest]

Hello everyone,

Congratulations to all of them who got their work done.

I am sharing my timeline here,

Applied 21/12/2015

Confirmation email same day

Council: ballarat (regional vic)

Still waiting for test date.

Anyone for victoria got reply within same timeline please share it.

Thanks

[silencio 28]

I'm so happy to join this thread for my other half. My timeline will come by the end of this year or next year (no automatic dual nationality in my home country and have to gather documents etc) Anyway the other half's timeline:

 

 

 

1. Date applied - 02/02/2016
2. City/Council area - Adelaide
   
3. Online / Paper - Paper
   
4. Date received the acknowledgement email - 04/02/2016
   
5. Date of the Citizenship Test - 16/03/2016 (received with the acknowledgement email)
   
6. Date of ceremony - Waiting
   
7. Type of ceremony (Urgent/Normal) - Waiting
   

 

[silencio 28]

How long did it take everyone to get a date for the citizenship test after your acknowledgement letter?

 

Received acknowledgement email with date for citizenship test as one combined email

[Guest]

Anyone from Victoria? ?

[Isabelj28 40]

I applied in June last year - did test in July. Had to provide extra documents, did that in August. Got the approval in September. Ceremony in January. And I'm in regional Victoria.

[Ken 676]

I applied in June last year - did test in July. Had to provide extra documents, did that in August. Got the approval in September. Ceremony in January. And I'm in regional Victoria.

 

Yes, if anything the regional areas do seem to be more efficient at organising these things. It's those of us in Melbourne that are being kept waiting. Admittedly some regional areas do have only two ceremonies a year but (in most cases) they make sure they clear the backlog at each ceremony. In my suburb they schedule small ceremonies every month but don't change the number of invites even though the queue is getting longer.

[Isabelj28 40]

Yes, I'm in a '2 ceremony a year' place. So it feels like quite a long time, say if you just miss the June ceremony, you can be waiting over 6 months.

[Suzukiscottie 758]

We're in a 4 ceremony a year council area in Melbourne. Applied August, test end September. Didn't get invite for Australia Day ceremony. Hopefully will get next one in April.

 

 

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[Guest dubsydney]

Timeline:

Date of applied: October 16,2015

City Council/State:Botany Council/NSW

Paper Application

Acknowledgement date:December 5,2015

Citizenship test: January 6,2016 rescheduled it January 21,2016

Date of Ceremony:

 

I'm just asking why I have not receive a notification of approval

of my citizenship while I did the test together with my partner whilst

he received his after a week?????????Are they doing external check?

Im just worried???

[movingback 10]

congratulations MB, I know you are in a similar mindset to me and many others, hanging on for the passport when your heart is really wanting to leave as the novelty has long gone.

Are you going to go for a 24 hour turnaround on the passport then jump on the next plane? 3 months seems quick, I'm looking at 6-7 months at Waverley unfortunately.

 

No I'll just do a regular passport application. I still have some jobs to do at work and organising to do. So long as I'm back for summer I'll be happy Good luck getting a ceremony!

[tonyman 6,232]

No. Not all all. You send a scanned copy of your passport with your application and take the original with you to the appointment/citizenship test.

 

Where do you stand if you have an expired passport ?

[Que Sera Sera 6,265]

Where do you stand if you have an expired passport ?

Our sons had expired it wasn't a problem :wubclub:

[Invisible 10]

Brisbane Office Timeline:

Date of applied: February 09, 2016.

City Council/State: Brisbane City Council/Queensland.

Application Mode: Online Application (Provided all documents upfront).

Acknowledgement date: February 09, 2016.

Email for Citizenship Test/Interview: Not Yet Known.

Citizenship test: Not Yet Known.

Date of Ceremony:Not Yet Known.

 

My question is: How long it takes to get an email for citizenship test/interview for Brisbane Office?

[littlegreenman 10]

My question is: How long it takes to get an email for citizenship test/interview for Brisbane Office?

 

I posted my timeline a couple of weeks ago for Brisvegas. It seems DIBP in Brisbane sends them out in batches every second Wednesday. So I wouldn't be surprised if you get one next Wednesday. I applied 20 Jan and my interview is late March. So I reckon you'll get an appointment around end of April.

[WRooney 10]

1. Date applied. 04/05//15

2. City/council. Port Macquarie, Hastings council

3 Online/ paper. Online

4 citizenship test 22/05/15

5 citizenship approval 28/05/2015

6. Citizenship ceremony. 22/06/15

 

Citizen in 7 weeks from the application.. really impressive. Was it "urgent"?

[handsomewill 108]

Bit of a long shot but someone may know. Passed my citizenship test and got my approval letter in early January but I'm with Waverley Council which is notorious for long ceremony waiting times. I got told it'd be four months, as a girl I know with the same council went through those timeframes late last year however have a mate/his mrs who were approved last September and still have no news - maybe the wait is longer if you ask to attend the same ceremony as another applicant?

 

What my question actually is, can you request to change council venues to a larger venue, i.e. Sydney City.. I'm guessing not and if you could, the application would start at square one?

 

think I've answered my own question there but don't want to be waiting for 9 months! ah well, plenty to do til then.

[Isabelj28 40]

You can request to do it somewhere else if you have an urgent need to have a ceremony

[Suzukiscottie 758]

We were told that the only way to help speed things up is to unlink family members from the ceremony process. (All 5 of our family are linked together currently awaiting a ceremony). We were told that if we had a need for a quicker ceremony then separating the applications might make it easier for the local council to allocate places at a ceremony.

 

Haven't bothered. We'll just wait. (Passed the test at the end of September and had the confirmation letter a few days later; now waiting on Banyule Council, Melbourne).

[David888 10]

Hi all,

 

So far this is my timeline :

 

Brisbane Office,/ Gold Coast council....

Date of applied: 12/02/2016.

Online Application (provided all documents upfront).

Acknowledgement date: 12/02/2016.

No other communications since.

 

 

 

[Isabelj28 40]

You can request to do it somewhere else if you have an urgent need to have a ceremony

 

See here... Says can do urgent in limited circumstances...https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Citi/Citi/Attending-your-ceremony

Edited February 16, 2016 by Isabelj28

[Invisible 10]

******* UPDATE ********

 

Brisbane Office Timeline:

Date of applied: February 09, 2016.

City Council/State: Brisbane City Council/Queensland.

Application Mode: Online Application (Provided all documents upfront).

Acknowledgement date: February 09, 2016.

Email for Citizenship Test/Interview: 18/02/2016.

Citizenship test: 15/04/2016.

Citizenship Approval: Not Yet Known.

Date of Ceremony: Not Yet Known.

[David888 10]

Great news I hope my one is on the way as well I sent my application on the 12 February so hopefully I'm next

 

Good luck!

[David888 10]

------Update -------

 

Hi all,

 

So far this is my timeline :

 

Brisbane Office,/ Gold Coast council....

Date of applied: 12/02/2016.

Online Application (provided all documents upfront).

Acknowledgement date: 12/02/2016.

Email for Citizenship Test 18/02/2016

Test Date 15/04/2016 at Brisbane