Federal government to reduce citizenship backlog by slashing dormant applications

While a sound administrative measure, one that has the convenience of reducing the numbers that tell a terrible story of the government’s handling of citizenship, it does not address the fundamental administrative and processing challenges of the citizenship program, reflecting chronic under management across a number of years and governments.

Australia processes 60 percent of its citizenship applications within 60 days, Canada is over 2 years. Speaks for itself, after all, from a service perspective, the government also has to take citizenship processing seriously, not just the applicants.

Federal government to reduce citizenship backlog by slashing dormant applications.