A record number of people became Australian Citizens during the 2019-20 year.
This is a great improvement on the previous years. It is also a surprising number following the restrictions originally imposed due to the COVID-19 coronavirus issues.
Citizenship ceremonies were initially suspended, until they … Read the rest
204,817 grants of Australian Citizenship by Conferral were issued in the 2019-20 year.
This is the largest annual number of grants ever.
These were the numbers of applicants waiting for the outcome of their citizenship application, during the last 3 years.
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27,419 Australian Permanent residents became Australian Citizens on Australia Day, 26th January 2020.
The top five countries of Nationality becoming Australian Citizens were:
5,053 United Kingdom
4,031 India
2,175 China
1,531 Philippines
1,000 South Africa
followed by:
886 Vietnam
847 Pakistan
814 Afghanistan
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The numbers of people waiting for their Australian Citizenship Grant has been reducing quickly over the last couple of years.
From almost a quarter of a million waiting at 30th June 2018, down to about 100,000 by the end of … Read the rest
The number of people waiting for their Australian Citizenship has reduced from 198,477 at 31 July 2019 to 163,926 at 30th September 2019.
This is continuing the reduction in the numbers of people waiting for Citizenship, with around 60,000 applications finalised in those … Read the rest
The number of people waiting for their Australian Citizenship has reduced from 221,695 at 31 May 2019 to 198,477 at 31 July 2019.
This is a reduction of 23,218 for that two month period. (11,609 per month). Assuming about 25,000 new applications in … Read the rest
80,649 people became Australian Citizens by conferral in the year 2017-18. That was an average of 6,720 citizenship grants per month.
The largest nationality group was Indian, followed by the UK and the Philippines. The numbers for the top ten nationalities were:
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Recent News Reports show that there are 236,694 applications waiting for Australian Citizenship as at 30th December 2018, a massive increase from the almost 81,000 applications in the pipeline at 30th June 2017.
Such a rise is astronomical, but how has … Read the rest
