Wyndham City has reached an important milestone, conferring a record number of Australian citizens in Wyndham in 2023.
The 10,000th Australian citizen was conferred at a Citizenship Ceremony at Encore Events Centre on 24 August.
This significant milestone was celebrated with a cutting of a special citizenship cake.
Two super citizenships ceremonies were held on the day with the afternoon ceremony marking the 10,000th citizen being conferred.
This year has seen a record number of residents officially call Australia home after Wyndham City has substantially increased its Citizenship Ceremonies to deal with a backlog of applicants, primarily due to several years of Covid-related restrictions.
The number of Wyndham residents waiting to become Australian Citizens has reduced substantially and now the backlog has been cleared, following a major push by Wyndham City.
Since January, Wyndham City has delivered 43 Citizenship Ceremonies including four ‘Super Ceremony Days’, where 500 residents are invited to be conferred at each ceremony.
Wyndham City Mayor Cr Susan McIntyre said that at the end of 2022, Wyndham City had more than 5,000 residents awaiting Australian Citizenship conferrals.
“We understand how important citizenship is to our community and we recognised that the wait time was a significant issue. So we responded to that need to ensure that citizenship ceremonies happen promptly,” Cr McIntyre said.
“Council has delivered 43 ceremonies, this year with a record number of Wyndham residents conferred as Australian Citizens. We are thrilled with this outcome and welcome our new Australian Citizens to Wyndham.”
“We have used three Council venues for ceremonies including Wyndham Civic Centre, Encore Events Centre and the Wyndham Cultural Centre.”
“Ceremonies are held on weekdays and weekends.”
