The Department of Home Affairs is looking to deploy more staff to process the citizenship application backlog which has spiralled to more than 200,000 as of 30th April 2018.
The Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, Alan Tudge has said more staff will be assigned to deal with the huge numbers of citizenship applications in next six months.
“Over the next six months we'll be putting on an extra 150 people to deal with some of the citizenship applications,” he said in an interview to .
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