'Lives are on hold': Government pressured to address citizenship backlog

More than 198,000 people are waiting to have their Australian citizenship finalised.

Australia Citizenship Application Backlog in hundreds of thousands applications. Source: AAP

This Australian Citizenship Day, advocates are urging the Morrison government to address the country's backlog of citizenship applications.

More than 8,000 people around Australia will become citizens on Tuesday, but the latest figures show that there are upwards of 198,000 in the queue.

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