Latest figures from the Home Affairs Department show 9 in 10 Australian citizenship applications will now take 17 months to be processed.
With the lengthy waiting times also comes a ballooning number of people in the queue. Close to 189,000 people are waiting for their citizenship applications to be processed.
That is more than eight times the number in 2015, when there were just under 23,000.
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