How long does Australian citizenship application take to process?

Currently, Australian citizenship applications take around 18 months or more to be processed. As of December 31, 2019 the backlog of applications is 128,383 and as published in the Department’s website 75% of the applications take 16 months to be processed while 90% of the applications take 21 months. Don’t wait, start your Australian citizenship application today.

This is the average time an applicant needs to wait in order to find out if his or her application was approved or denied by the DIBP. If approved, the prospective citizen will need to wait another 5 months to attend the ceremony held at a local council and receive the citizenship certificate. The processing times are periodically updated on the Department website.

In 2017 the Australian Government attempted to tighten the eligibility requirements and even though parliament rejected the proposal, this caused a surge in citizenship applications. This stream of new applicants coincided with the introduction of additional security checks, which caused a dramatic increase in the waiting times for applications to be processed.

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