65 million

Hi all,

My wife and I have our citizenship interview tomorrow in Dandenong (Vic). Has anyone had one recently or aware of the kind of questions they ask you? What do we need to know?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
65KK

TraceyW

1) How many runs did the Australian side achieve in the 2004 Ashes tour?

2) How fast can you drive over the limit before you get nicked?

3) How ridiculous do you think our lettuce prices are?

4) Have you mastered the "Aussie Wave" yet?

5) Are you completely prepared to have half of your brain removed and a meat pie inserted?

6) How good are you at doing donuts now?



It's a simple interview honest. Just know your rights and responsibilities and that's it.

tallbloke67

Do you want to live in Australia or just slag the place off!

bridie

sent you k for that Tracey

I think they should ask "do you want to live here or are you just getting this so you can bugger off back to the UK but keep your options open?"

TraceyW

Oh, deffo just slag it off mate

Gibbo

[quote=bridie;4406900

I think they should ask "do you want to live here or are you just getting this so you can bugger off back to the UK but keep your options open?"[/quote]

That would be an excellent question, but how many would answer it truthfully? Perhaps provisional citizenship should be granted and rescinded if the applicant doesn't live in Australia for a further x number of years.

Wol

In our case they asked for our passports, our driving licences, our marriage certificate (and in Mrs Wol's case adoption papers), to verify our address and finally a cheque for around $3, being the cost of photocopying the above!

Oh, they also asked if we knew the rights and responsibilities. We said "yes", which turned out, fortunately, to be the right answer <g>.

bridie

donna

You are lucky then,we had to know each and everyone of ours,i rattled off 12 of them and he said ,yep one more, and waited until i remembered.
donna

annqldau

Sounds like a comedy sketch... . We will be going for ours in a few months but intend to stay can't see any need to rush back to UK have heard it's cold there.

65 million

Many thanks, Ive had a dig around and found the info we need to know here ....

http://www.citizenship.gov.au/becomi...y-should-i.htm

Enjoy,

Thanks,
65KK

pomref

Thats why there are changing it from 2 years to 4 years all the people who bugger off after 2 years have stuffed it up for the rest but the Australian goverment have got it spot on by making it 4 years now stops all the wanabe citizens.

If you really want to make Australia your home then an extra 2 years is not a problem.

JAJ

There used to be a law like that. It was repealed in 1958.

Permanent resident status is effectively "provisional citizenship".

TeresaG

Good luck with the interview

annqldau

Just couldn't be arsed to live here for two years just to turn around and go back, if you don't want to live here why do you want the citizinship in the first place?