Evidence of Australian Citizenship
The following documents normally constitute evidence of Australian citizenship:
- a valid Australian passport
- a birth certificate issued by or on behalf of an Australian state or territory (only for those born before 20 August 1986)
- a certificate of evidence of Australian citizenship
- an Australian naturalisation certificate
- a certificate of Australian citizenship by descent
Australian citizens who do not have a citizenship certificate, have lost their original certificate, or wish to have a single document proving their citizenship, may apply for a Certificate of Evidence of Australian Citizenship.
Children naturalised as part of a parent's application for Australian citizenship before 1 July 2002 did not receive individual citizenship certificates. Instead, their details were included on the reverse of their parent's certificate. Such children can be issued with individual Certificates of Evidence of Australian citizenship.
Read more about this topic: Australian Nationality Law
Famous quotes containing the words evidence of, evidence, australian and/or citizenship:
“In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“The Australian mind, I can state with authority, is easily boggled.”
—Charles Osborne (b. 1927)
“Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.”
—O. Henry [William Sydney Porter] (1862–1910)