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Citizenship by grant processing time by country of birth 2025

David Singh made this Official Information request to Department of Internal Affairs

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From: David Singh

Dear Department of Internal Affairs,

Can you provide processing time data (in days) for Citizenship by Grant (CBG) applications that had an outcome between July 2025 and December 2025 (inclusive)?

Specifically, can you provide processing time distributions (from lodgment to outcome), broken down by applicant country of birth, including:

- 25th percentile processing time
- 50th percentile (median) processing time
- 80th percentile processing time
- 90th percentile processing time

Only if country of birth data is not available, applicant citizenship data is also acceptable.

Yours faithfully,

David Singh

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Department of Internal Affairs

Tçnâ koe,

Thank you for contacting the Department of Internal Affairs.  You have
contacted us during the annual legislative closedown period of public
service OIA processing, which spans 24 December 2024 to 15 January 2025
(inclusive). 

During this period public service Official Information Act processing is
suspended.

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information held by the Department, we will respond to you after OIA
processing resumes on Thursday the 16th January 2025.  You can check the
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Nâku noa, nâ

 

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