Current Affairs: citizenship applications take almost 18 months to process

Australian citizenship

Source: SBS

Demand to be an Australian citizen has never been higher. Almost 190,000 people are in the queue, and the Federal Government says that is why applications are now taking almost a year and a half to be processed. Selina and Ivan reports.



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