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Australian Citizenship Amendment (Concession Codes and Payment of Fees) Regulations 2019
The Australian Citizenship Amendment (Concession Codes and Payment of Fees) Regulations 2019 (the Regulations) will amend the Australian Citizenship Regulation 2016 (the Citizenship Regulation) to allow citizenship application fees, and refunds of citizenship application fees where appropriate, to be paid in foreign currencies and in foreign countries, and to align the concession codes in Schedule 3 with the concession codes currently employed by the Department of Human Services (DHS).
In particular, the Regulations amend the Citizenship Regulation to:
Incorporate, by reference, instruments made under the Migration Regulations 1994 (the Migration Regulations) that relate to the payment of fees in foreign currencies and in foreign countries.
The purpose of this amendment is to facilitate the lawful collection of citizenship application fees in specified foreign currencies and foreign countries at updated exchange rates.
Update the codes listed in Schedule 3 so that they correspond with the codes appearing on relevant pensioner concession cards issued by DHS. This ensures that affected clients are charged the appropriate concessional citizenship application fee.
Source: Australian-Citizenship-Amendment-Concession-Codes-and-Payment-of-fees-regulations-2019.pdf
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Hello, I hope you can help me. I am 60 years old applying for my Australian Citizenship by post and need to pay for it before I post it.
My query is: I have a Dept. of Human Services Concession Card with the code CAR on it (Carer). I have an ImmiAccount and started to fill it out and got to the fee part and it had: Concession $180 so I did not go any further. Where is the box for the $20.00 concession fee or does this pop up when I tick the $180 Box?
If I ring Immigration, I will be put on hold for quite a few hours and thought that you might be able to help me.
Sorry to ask you this but I an desperate to pay for my application get the required receipt number to attached to my application and get it in the post!
Thank you very much for your time and I soooo look forward to your reply!
Have a safe weekend.
Regards
Maria