According to the Department of Home Affairs, the average time from lodging an application to receiving citizenship has been stretched from 12 to 16 months.
As of April 30 this year, there were over 200,000 citizenship applications being processed by the Department of Home Affairs, and perhaps a comparable number of permanent residency applications.
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