Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 21:35:37 +1000
Subject: Internal review of Freedom of Information request - Number of citizenship applicants in Sydney metro councils who are approved and the number who have completed the citizenship ceremony
From: Jamun Lab <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
To: FOI requests at Department of Home Affairs <xxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx>

Dear Department of Home Affairs,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.

I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Home Affairs's handling of my FOI request 'Number of citizenship applicants in Sydney metro councils who are approved and the number who have completed the citizenship ceremony'.

For the below quote Request,

FOI Request: FA 21/03/00834

File Number: OBJ2021/9119

As I understand based on the document provided by you in response, this document does not exist with the department. Due to this, I would like to request you to provide information/report such as the one provided for another FOI Request: FA 20/02/01122 (this is very similar to the FOI request I have raised (FA 21/03/00834) with exception of a 2 columns)

This previous FOI number that I have provided: FA 20/02/01122 has only 2 columns 1. Council name and 2. Number of approved applicants waiting for the Citizenship ceremony as the two columns.

Could you please provide the same information, but for the councils that are listed in the FOI request that I have raised (FA 21/03/00834) for applicants approved upto date 31/01/2021. IF it is not possible to add the filter for "applicants approved upto date 31/01/2021" - then please provided only the 1. Council name and 2. Number of approved applicants waiting for the Citizenship ceremony as the two columns.

Please let me know if you need any further information.

Further, Please note that I had raised 2 FOI requests on March 10 2021. Then, the FOI department merged the two into a single one (combining the text of the 2 FOIs). The 2nd one infact had requested
the same information as has been previously provided in the FOI request FA 20/02/01122. However, due to the merging that one has not been used for this request. Therefore, as requested above, please provide the information requested.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/number_of_citizenship_applicants_5

Yours faithfully,

Jamun Lab



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