Online Citizenship Affirmation Facility
Once you have read the information we have outlined on the previous page, you will be able to decide whether you wish to make an online affirmation of your citizenship (or an affirmation of your loyalty to Australia if you are not currently an Australian citizen in the formal sense). If you would now like to proceed with your affirmation, please follow the steps below.
Your affirmation will be sent as an e-mail directly to the Australian Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Senator the Hon Chris Evans. It is important to include your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address so that the Minister can respond.
A copy of your online affirmation will also be sent to your own e-mail address, for your records.
In addition, you may wish to fill in the names and e-mail addresses of up to five relatives or friends who are important to you, and with whom you would like to share the fact that you have affirmed your Australian citizenship (or your loyalty to Australia if you are not a citizen). Those people will then also receive a copy of your affirmation.
Affirmation for Australian Citizens
Please do NOT use this affirmation form if you are not an Australian citizen. An alternative form for those who are not formally Australian is provided here.
Name:*
Address:*
Telephone:*
E-mail:*
Subject:
Citizenship Affirmation
Message:
To: Senator the Hon Chris Evans Minister for Immigration and Citizenship Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Australia Dear Senator Evans, As an Australian citizen I note your campaign to encourage Australian citizens to affirm their citizenship at Affirmation Ceremonies around Australia. I am unable to attend an affirmation ceremony in my area. Nevertheless, I would like you to note my affirmation as follows: As an Australian citizen, I affirm my loyalty to Australia and its people, whose democratic beliefs I share, whose rights and liberties I respect, and whose laws I uphold and obey.
You now have the option to include the following extra paragraph in your affirmation. Click the checkbox on the left if you wish to incorporate this text:
In addition, I would like to take this opportunity to say how pleased I am that Section 17 of the Australian Citizenship Act 1948 was repealed in 2002.
You may also wish to include in your message the additional comments below on the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 which was finally passed by the Australian Federal Parliament on 1 March 2007 and came into force on 1 July 2007. We stress that this is entirely voluntary. Again, click on the checkbox at left to make the text below part of your message:
I also believe that the enactment of the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 on 1 March 2007 was significant.
The Australian Citizenship Act 2007 is for the most part an excellent piece of legislation for the Australian diaspora. I am pleased that under the Act, individuals who lost their citizenship under Sections 17, 18, 20 and 23 of the 1948 Act are provided with a simplified route to resumption, and only have to demonstrate that they are of good character.
In particular I welcome the fact that individuals born overseas to Section 17 victims after their loss of citizenship are now given the opportunity to apply for Australian citizenship, and only have to demonstrate that they are of good character. However, I believe individuals born to Section 18 victims should receive the same treatment. I was sorry to see that the previous Government saw fit to exclude some 3000 Maltese children of Australian-born parents from access to Australian citizenship under the 2007 Act. However, I note the ALP's commitment while in opposition to include such individuals, and I urge the present Government to enact legislation to that effect without further delay.
Finally, I welcome the fact that many overseas-born people who missed out on registration as citizens by descent for various reasons even though they had an Australian-born parent at the time of their birth, are now given an opportunity to apply for registration as Australian citizens by descent.
If you have an additional, personal message to Senator Evans, you may type it in the text box below. This is entirely optional and you may leave the box blank.
Personal Message:
Yours sincerely,
If you would like to share your citizenship affirmation with close family and friends, you may enter their names and e-mail addresses below and they will receive a copy. This is entirely optional and you can leave the boxes below blank if desired:
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