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You need to provide below documents (but not limited to)
- Three identity documents that all together show your
- photograph and signature
- current residential address
- birth name, date of birth and gender.
- If you have changed your name, provide evidence of this including links between names
- The Identity declaration completed by a person with the relevant authority and accompanied by an endorsed photograph signed by the same person. If you are applying on a paper application, this is contained in the form. If you are applying online, a Form 1195 – Identity Declaration (232KB PDF) is required for yourself and each person included in your application form
- If you spent more than 12 months outside Australia since you were 18 years old and had your permanent residency
- Provide a penal clearance certificate from every country in which you spent more than 90 days
- In any circumstances, if penal clearance from Australia is required, the authority will arrange it, you don't need to do/pay anything for that
- You you include any children in your application, or applied for any exemption, you have to provide supporting documents
- An Australian driver's licence
- A passport
- A national identity card
- UNHCR document
- Other documents containing a signature and photograph such as:
- an air crew identity document
- seafarer identity document
- military identity document
- student card
- A utilities notice such as electricity, gas or water bill
- Rental contracts or rates notice
- A full birth certificate, or your country's equivalent
- Evidence of links between present and previous names, for example a marriage or divorce certificate, if applicable
- Change of name documents from an Australian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, if applicable
- Documents showing other names that you or your children have been known by
- One passport-sized photograph and Identity declaration signed by an Australian citizen with the appropriate authority
- You will need to provide documents for any children on your application too, including
- a full birth certificate or family register containing parent's details
- a travel document or passport, if they are not on your passport
- evidence of links between birth name and current name, if applicable
- one passport-sized photograph and identity declaration signed by an Australian citizen with the appropriate authority.
- If there are any parenting orders relating to your children, or they have been adopted, then you will need to provide these documents
- If you are applying for Australian citizenship by conferral, you are required to provide evidence of your entry to Australia
- Current and previous passport
- Travel document with visa such as a Document for Travel to Australia, PLO56 (M56), Titre de Voyage