Australia Awarded Citizenship To More Than 27000 People On Australia Day

28 Jan 2020

On 26 Jan 2020 morning, greater than a hundred people assembled at Kingston City on Australia Day 2020 celebration in South-East Melbourne.

Among this, the big group was families who were there to take the pledge and to become citizens of Australia.

Harshal Desai came with his wife and his daughter to Australia from India in the mid of 2014. The young family came with an Australian skilled permanent visa and settled in Melbourne city where he has worked in sales-oriented positions over Security Surveillance & IT for the past five years.

On 26 Jan 2020, after a lengthy process that took above 17 months, the Desai family obtained their Australian citizenship. But rather than complaining about the long wait, the family enjoyed and rejoiced the start of a new journey as new citizens of Australia.

He said that it was a magnificent experience. It was a very well planned and organized event. It was a delight to meet the Mayor and learn regarding all the things that the community was doing. It feels good and looking ahead to all the visa-free travel in the near future and contributing more to the nation

Details of Australian Citizenship Ceremony

Related to the Indian passport which permits visa-free access to 58 nations, Mr. Desai is now qualified for an Australian passport which is the 9th most powerful passport in the globe allowing visa-free entrance to 183 nations.

Greater than 27,000 individuals marked this Australia Day by becoming citizens of Australia which is the biggest number to pledge on 26 January 2020.

Migrants from the UK topped this list with 5,053 awarded with citizenship on Australia Day. India secured second place on the list with 4,031 migrants and China Secured third place with 2,175 migrants awarded with citizenship.

Australia Day is the most famous day for individuals to attend a ceremony of citizenship, with 100,000 individuals became citizens of Australia on a national day in the prior 6 years.

Alan Tudge, Acting Minister for Citizenship, Immigration, Multicultural Affairs, and Migrant Services congratulated the people who attended the 454 ceremonies throughout the nation.

A Long Wait for Australian Citizenship

Greater than 106,000 individuals have been welcomed as new citizens of Australia in the past six months. Between 1 Jul 2019 and 31 Dec 2019, 106,704 individuals were awarded with citizenship, increased from 48,983 in the corresponding period in the year 2018. But it remains to be a long wait for immigrants.

As of Dec 2019, 128,383 appellants were still anticipating the outcome of their application for citizenship. As per the Home Affairs Department, the processing time for 75% of the applications from the application submission date to the ceremony date, is 21 months.

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