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FOI Request: FA 21/04/00689
File Number: OBJ2021/11989

Dear Information Requested

Acknowledgement of Freedom of Information Access request

I refer to your correspondence received on 16 April 2021 seeking access to documents held by the Department Of Home Affairs (the Department) under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act).

Scope of request

You have requested access to the following:

I would like to know the date range of approval, for which the Australian citizenship via conferral, In-Person ceremony has been completed, aggregated at council level for the following councils, split by date of ceremony. Please consider all In-Person ceremonies conducted since 01-Feb-2021 onwards till date of producing this report, at the councils mentioned below, for this report.

Please provide the below columns in the report.

Council Name:
Date of Ceremony:
Approval Date Range( of applicants who attended this ceremony:)

Example: (the following can be provided in table format)

Council Name: City of Fairfield, NSW
Date of Ceremony: 10-Feb-2021 (for example) Approval Date Range of applicants who attended this ceremony: Applicants approved between 10-Jan-2021 to 05-Feb-2021

Council Name: City of Fairfield, NSW
Date of Ceremony: 10-March-2021 (for example) Approval Date Range of applicants who attended this ceremony: Applicants approved between 05-Feb-2021 to 05-March-2021

Please provide this data for the following councils:

Hornsby shire, NSW
City of Penrith, NSW
City of Willoughby, NSW
North Sydney Council, NSW
Northern beaches council, NSW
City of Parramatta, NSW
City of Ryde, NSW
City of Sydney, NSW
Cumberland city council, NSW
Lane Cove Council, NSW
Inner West Council, NSW
City of Canterbury-Bankstown, NSW.

Your request was received by the Department on 16 April 2021 and has been allocated FOI request number FA 21/04/00689 . Please include your FOI request number in all correspondence with the Freedom of Information Section.

Timeframe for receiving your decision

The statutory timeframe for processing a request is 30 days from the date upon which your application was received by the Department.

Your review rights in relation to your request are available on the website of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner here.

Exclusion of staff details

The Department’s policy is to exclude the personal details of staff not in the Senior Executive Service (SES), as well as the direct contact details of SES staff, contained in documents that fall within scope of an FOI request. If you require personal details of non-SES officers, or direct contact details of SES staff, please inform us so the decision maker may consider your request. Otherwise we will take it that you agree to that information being excluded from the scope of your request.

Duplicate documents

If the FOI decision-maker deems a document to be a duplicate, they will not assess those pages as part of your FOI request. This means that if a there is a decision to release the document to you, you will receive only one copy, even if multiple copies of that document exists.

Publication of document

Where documents are released to you in response to your request, the Department may be required to publish these documents on its website within 10 working days in accordance with section 11C of the FOI Act. Publication will not be required where the documents contain personal or business affairs information.

Contacting the FOI Section

Should you wish to discuss your request you may contact the FOI Section at [Minister for Home Affairs request email].

Kind Regards,

Michael
Position number: 60028261
Authorised FOI Officer
Freedom of Information
E: [Minister for Home Affairs request email]

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FOI Request:         FA 21/04/00689

File Number:         OBJ2021/11989

Dear Information requested,

I refer to your FOI request received on 16 April 2021.  

The Department has made a decision on this request. Please find attached
the decision record and any documents released under the FOI Act.  

This request has been closed in our system. 

Signed electronically

Derek

Position number 60007884

Authorised Decision Maker | Freedom of Information Section

FOI and Records Management Branch

Data Division | Strategy and Law Enforcement Group

Department of Home Affairs

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