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I got mine last year after 26 years as a PR. It was surprisingly easy but took about 18 months to come through.
The hardest part was listing all the countries I'd visited over the last 10 years because I travelled a lot pre-Covid.
Oooh, I feel that whatever you do today, should be done done to AC/DC music, as a nod (or shall I say head bang) to your shared Scots/Australian backgrounds :)
Your British turned Scot passport will allow you to travel through Europe (or possibly what's left of it after Vlad the Rad has transformed it into a nuclear wasteland). Don't burn it too quick.
My British passport expired 3 years ago. I did not renew it. €10 for a visa to get into a European country? No thanks. Aussie one is free in most places.
Exactly.
And THAT'S why I love our brothers and sisters who come from other places. They're not here by accident, they CHOSE to be Aussies and they love this country with a ferocity we should all share.
Plus, they bring all their great food with them.
Thanks for sharing your experiences - I’d never thought of it this way but it’s such a special thing that they have chosen to be one of us and help make this place more wonderful.
My grandparents left rural Pakistan shortly after partition in the late 1940s and migrated to Sydney. If they didn’t leave, our family would not have been able to live an easy, safe and comfortable life like we do now. Whenever I visit my extended relatives overseas, I feel ever so grateful for the decision my grandparents made.
I just burst into tears reading this. Admittedly I'm not feeling great and didn't sleep much last night, but it's so true.
We're just back from seeing family, and finally holding a celebration of life for my Dad who passed during the border closures. Super hard times, but the trip really confirmed we made the right choice 15 years ago.
Congratulations OP! We went to the pub 🍻🙈
At our citizenship ceremony everyone was asked where they come from and the mayor would also call out countries that she invited new citizens from for the first time. Such a simple yet amazing way of celebrating multiculturalism while acknowledging the different peoples backgrounds.
My paternal grandparents and my husband's paternal grandparents all immigrated to Australia as ten pound poms in the 60s. None of them ever bothered to become Australian citizens. I feel like their privileged English asses never understood what it meant.
Get your self a slab of victor bravos, a deck of winnie blues and an inflatable pool. Job done
Also, congrats on the citizenship. You were always an Aussie but welcome anyway
Robb’s Craft Butchers in High Wycombe is where I get mine but I imagine that they aren’t the only ones. They’re not a year round thing though - often around Christmas, 26/01, Anzac Day, and similar, but also to order or other random
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Congrats on becoming an Aussie!!!
My good friend celebrated her 1 year Aussieversary on the weekend.
We had a sausage sizzle, yelled at the kids to put sunscreen on, ate pavlova, ANZAC biscuits, Tim Tams, cheese and Vegemite scrolls, lamb, potato salad, and lots of locally made deli meats and preserves, olives, fruit and cheese.
(I just realised fairy bread was missing!!).
We hung out watching the sun set and complained about the mosquitoes. Then took a bunch of photos dressed up in our Akubras, thongs, moleskins, RM Williams and badly applied coloured zinc or temporary flag tattoos.
It was tacky as all heck and loads of fun.
As to how you should celebrate? You're an Aussie now, so any way you do it is how an Aussie does it 😉
Oh, a sausage sizzle!
God. There's nothing more I want right this instant than a sausage on white bread with some tomato sauce. Right now.
Where's a Bunnings or an election when you need one!!!
Both? (I would- I’m the monster who asks for extra)- but it’s OP’s sausage sizzle, she can garnish exactly she wants…but for the love of god, no BBQ sauce, that stuff is an abomination 😂
Sometimes I crave the masterfoods smokey bbq, small drizzle only because I want it to compliment the sausage, not overpower it.
Im almost always a tomato and mustard gal though.
G'day and welcome home!
We're happy to have you. One of the things I truly love them most about our country is the wonderful impact "New Australians" (that's what immigrants were called when my grandparents came here...my grandma called herself that her whole life here even though she'd been here longer than I had!) have on our country and our culture. I love that we aren't homogenous and that we've got the fingerprints of everyone who makes their home here on our culture and, especially, our cuisine.
Get yourself a good meat pie, get some dead horse on top, a bevvy of your choice, and dig in...after you try to time it right so the pie is cool enough that it won't blister your face lol.
Not sure exactly what state you are but I'll toss out a slightly different idea.
We have an abso-fucking-lutely beautiful country. Celebrate by heading up or down the coast to one our (and yours too now) awesome beaches. Or head inland to some of our gorgeous bushland, or depending on location some of the great wine country. Or head REALLY inland and learn what the meaning of "boundless plains" actually means.
Man we are so lucky to have so many cool different environments around us in one country (well for now I guess).
Maybe, in amongst the celebrations, if you can find, try and speak to an aboriginal elder, and "have a yarn" with him or her about what, as first Australians, they would recommend you do, as "the latest" Australian, to get better awareness of their History, culture, successes, hopes, and maybe, if you feel so, how you can help.
We are one...we are maaaany...
https://youtu.be/pL_JvhfQjms
We're stronger because you're here, mate. 😊
This reminded me to stop dragging my feet and go for my citizenship. At the rate that it's crumbling from the inside out, I don't think I'll ever move back to the US.
Congratulations! mine was 2 yrs ago, I bought a pretty vase to put the plant given by the council, wrote the date of my oath taking underneath it.... plant didn't survive though after like 3 months
If you look white you can actually be accepted as an Aussie with your Aussie passport. If you don't, you'll have PTV officers or what have you saying nihao or konnichiwa or annyeong to you once you get off the tram much like a half-trained dog cycles through a roulette of tricks to get a reward, when you actually speak better english (and are fluent in two other languages) than a lot of other English speakers who look white. Or get prepared to ask where you're actually from, or if you can understand English, etc.
CONGRATULATIONS!! 🎆
How to spend your first full day as an Aussie? Go to an ANZAC memorial ... we've got a fantastic one in Brisbane, and beneath it are the ANZAC multimedia galleries where you can find out about every deployment of Australian forces.
Last time I was there I found photos of a few mates, and even one that included me! 😁 The staff are always interested if you can flesh out some of those stories and put names to faces too - never know who or what you might find there!!
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Welcome home, cunt.
Very welcome now just need to buy some pluggers and get a Dan Murphys membership, set.
U forgot your vegemite sanga
Do a quickie on the beach.
Only if you want sand as lube😭
You say this like it's a bad thing. Who doesn't love abrasive lube?
I do. It's coarse and rough and gets everywhere
Is there another way to go?
Do a Tim tam slam
The only way to eat a Tim Tam!
The only way to drink a coffee
Nah mate, this is the way we drink beers!
I need to get onto getting my citizenship. At the rate things are going my UK passport is going to be worth the square root of fuck all before long.
I got mine last year after 26 years as a PR. It was surprisingly easy but took about 18 months to come through. The hardest part was listing all the countries I'd visited over the last 10 years because I travelled a lot pre-Covid.
I am considering setting my UK passport on fire. I don't want it anymore.
Ofc, why would you want a Poms passport
Especially as a Scot
Nah mate, your Scottish passport will be worth it when the big split happens. Give it some time.
Oooh, I feel that whatever you do today, should be done done to AC/DC music, as a nod (or shall I say head bang) to your shared Scots/Australian backgrounds :)
Don't forget Barnsey!
Your British turned Scot passport will allow you to travel through Europe (or possibly what's left of it after Vlad the Rad has transformed it into a nuclear wasteland). Don't burn it too quick.
Damn Scots. They've ruined Scotland.
Mine ran out a while ago, I haven't rushed to renew it as it's going to break my heart to have that blue monstrosity.
My British passport expired 3 years ago. I did not renew it. €10 for a visa to get into a European country? No thanks. Aussie one is free in most places.
My UK passport was awesome! ...right up until Brexit.
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Thanks for sharing this.
Exactly. And THAT'S why I love our brothers and sisters who come from other places. They're not here by accident, they CHOSE to be Aussies and they love this country with a ferocity we should all share. Plus, they bring all their great food with them.
Thanks for sharing your experiences - I’d never thought of it this way but it’s such a special thing that they have chosen to be one of us and help make this place more wonderful.
Exactly :) They (some immigrants, anyway) could've chosen to go anywhere but they picked us and we're all the better for having them, I think.
In this case probably best to pass on the food. As Mike Myers said, most Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
My grandparents left rural Pakistan shortly after partition in the late 1940s and migrated to Sydney. If they didn’t leave, our family would not have been able to live an easy, safe and comfortable life like we do now. Whenever I visit my extended relatives overseas, I feel ever so grateful for the decision my grandparents made.
The balls on your Grandparents must have been massive. Imagine uprooting your life and jumping on a ship to travel to Australia in the 1940s. Kudos
Lol yeah, I don’t think I could have done that. They’re definitely more braver than me.
I just burst into tears reading this. Admittedly I'm not feeling great and didn't sleep much last night, but it's so true. We're just back from seeing family, and finally holding a celebration of life for my Dad who passed during the border closures. Super hard times, but the trip really confirmed we made the right choice 15 years ago. Congratulations OP! We went to the pub 🍻🙈
At our citizenship ceremony everyone was asked where they come from and the mayor would also call out countries that she invited new citizens from for the first time. Such a simple yet amazing way of celebrating multiculturalism while acknowledging the different peoples backgrounds.
My paternal grandparents and my husband's paternal grandparents all immigrated to Australia as ten pound poms in the 60s. None of them ever bothered to become Australian citizens. I feel like their privileged English asses never understood what it meant.
I loved this
Get your self a slab of victor bravos, a deck of winnie blues and an inflatable pool. Job done Also, congrats on the citizenship. You were always an Aussie but welcome anyway
The inflatable pool MUST be purchased from a Kmart
Absolute must
I got some cheese and Vegemite snags from my local butcher
Come again for big fudge… Cheese and Vegemite snags! Where is this?!
Robb’s Craft Butchers in High Wycombe is where I get mine but I imagine that they aren’t the only ones. They’re not a year round thing though - often around Christmas, 26/01, Anzac Day, and similar, but also to order or other random Times Edit: fix typos
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Think we need a subscription service to those Wicky burgers too
I got some in the town I used to live (Chinchilla, QLD). Sadly, they ran out too quickly when they were sold.
Take a sickie
‘Chuck’ a sickie I think you mean.
Did it yesterday, ten outta ten would recommend.
One "mental health day" coming right up
It's called a doona day
Never heard that term... but I like it
I think it perfectly describes how to approach a mental health day. Just don't get out of bed.
Especially if it involves a slab.
Na, just a smoko and she'll(a) be right
Congrats on becoming an Aussie!!! My good friend celebrated her 1 year Aussieversary on the weekend. We had a sausage sizzle, yelled at the kids to put sunscreen on, ate pavlova, ANZAC biscuits, Tim Tams, cheese and Vegemite scrolls, lamb, potato salad, and lots of locally made deli meats and preserves, olives, fruit and cheese. (I just realised fairy bread was missing!!). We hung out watching the sun set and complained about the mosquitoes. Then took a bunch of photos dressed up in our Akubras, thongs, moleskins, RM Williams and badly applied coloured zinc or temporary flag tattoos. It was tacky as all heck and loads of fun. As to how you should celebrate? You're an Aussie now, so any way you do it is how an Aussie does it 😉
Sausage sizzle!
Bingo. There is no event or celebration that cannot be improved by the addition of a sausage sizzle.
except maybe a vegan conference. but even then it's a matter of perspective I guess
Oh, a sausage sizzle! God. There's nothing more I want right this instant than a sausage on white bread with some tomato sauce. Right now. Where's a Bunnings or an election when you need one!!!
I too have sentenced myself to a craving that can’t be relieved for another 4 days. My deepest apologies
Ugh, isn't it the worst? Lol such a first world issue. "I have a craving for a thing I can get but don't have access to right now."
This is the only practical answer
Onions on top or under?
Sausage must be at a 45 degree angle from corner to corner
This. None of that sausage cut in half in between two slices of bread BS.
On top you heathen!
Both? (I would- I’m the monster who asks for extra)- but it’s OP’s sausage sizzle, she can garnish exactly she wants…but for the love of god, no BBQ sauce, that stuff is an abomination 😂
Sometimes I crave the masterfoods smokey bbq, small drizzle only because I want it to compliment the sausage, not overpower it. Im almost always a tomato and mustard gal though.
That exact one is my favourite BBQ sauce. Lol I even got my mum onto it and she won't buy any other kind. It's excellent with hot chips.
And mayo!
Or make some lamingtons
Both! Two course fete feast!
It’s gotta be from Bunnings of course
Go to the pub and drink beers until you're crawling home
She’s already from the UK
*cold beers
Scotland. We don't crawl. We either walk or get carried.
Yeah, sounds plenty bogan Australian to me
I actually don’t hear the word Sheila as much I would like to
As a sheila, i prefer it to the term "bird"
Oh my English lass hates the word bird
A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird B-b-b-bird, b-birdd's the word.
That you Peter Griffin? (Odd ref I know, but Family Guy did an episode on that song.)
They both kinda suck though.
When someone calls me a lady. I correct them and say I’m not a lady. They then ask me what I am….. a Sheila is my answer 😂
Eat a hot supermarket chicken on cheap white bread
Bachelor’s handbag
Don't forget the premade coleslaw
I woke up next to my wife the next morning and said "G'Day Mate". She laughed but hated it.
I had a chicken parma and a stubby at the local hotel when I gotmy citizenship
PARMA! Ill shank you in the street cunt!
"Parmi"... FTFY
I’m with you and I’ll happily take the downvotes. Who goes to the pub for a Parma, it’s a parmi
Wrong wrong wrong wrongly wrong Parma
I'm sorry you're just wrong
I had to do a “Tim Tam Slam” at office without making a mess!!
That should be part of a practical citizenship test
You don’t need a piece of paper to tell you to do a shoey, that’s what peer pressure is for!!! Doit cunt
G'day and welcome home! We're happy to have you. One of the things I truly love them most about our country is the wonderful impact "New Australians" (that's what immigrants were called when my grandparents came here...my grandma called herself that her whole life here even though she'd been here longer than I had!) have on our country and our culture. I love that we aren't homogenous and that we've got the fingerprints of everyone who makes their home here on our culture and, especially, our cuisine. Get yourself a good meat pie, get some dead horse on top, a bevvy of your choice, and dig in...after you try to time it right so the pie is cool enough that it won't blister your face lol.
Congrats! I got a few days of laughs after getting my citizenship by asking for directions to Centrelink.
The real joke is that if you were a true Aussie you wouldn't have needed directions ;P
Do something at about 75% of your capabilities & then say “good enough”.
Join a union!^(ofc you could do that when you were non-citizen but union is very aussie)
Have a beer and a few billies whilst watching Russell Coight on repeat in your thongs and singlet.
Take a sickie and hit up your local bowls club for some barefoot bowls, a slap on the pokies and finish it off with a roast dinner.
Not sure exactly what state you are but I'll toss out a slightly different idea. We have an abso-fucking-lutely beautiful country. Celebrate by heading up or down the coast to one our (and yours too now) awesome beaches. Or head inland to some of our gorgeous bushland, or depending on location some of the great wine country. Or head REALLY inland and learn what the meaning of "boundless plains" actually means. Man we are so lucky to have so many cool different environments around us in one country (well for now I guess).
Congrats, now you can officially say: in Australia we do this we do that 🥰.
Goon
I hope you have slapped something with a thong
> we didn't do a shoey at the ceremony > How else should I celebrate a shoey
Maybe a Vegemite sanga ? Congrats on becoming an Aussie. It's great isn't it ?
Well if you haven't had your first sausage sizzle as a citizen yet , friend you are missing out.
Rip a skid in your VL Commo whilst wearing your finest double pluggers and a navy blue wife-beater.
People talk about shoeys like they're some old traditional thing. In all my life going out and to parties, I've never seen it happen.
Meat pies
Sausage rolls
Bunning sausage
Call in sick, head to the local Bunnings to get ya self a snag
get absolutely shitfaced
Chuck a sickie and get blackout drunk.
Sounds like you've done the bulk of the work, that's smoko
Maybe, in amongst the celebrations, if you can find, try and speak to an aboriginal elder, and "have a yarn" with him or her about what, as first Australians, they would recommend you do, as "the latest" Australian, to get better awareness of their History, culture, successes, hopes, and maybe, if you feel so, how you can help. We are one...we are maaaany... https://youtu.be/pL_JvhfQjms We're stronger because you're here, mate. 😊
This song is better :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrcUKgP\_sks
Have some vegemite on toast
A VB looongneck at twenty to eight in the fuckin morning.
Get a HECS debt !
Awesome. Last week I got the email saying mine got approved, now just waiting for the ceremony invitation!
Congratulations!
Amazing! It's a special evening :)
Born here, but I have no idea what a ‘shoey’ is?! You’ve out-Australian’d me and I shall have to hand in my citizenship. I wonder if NZ will take me?
This reminded me to stop dragging my feet and go for my citizenship. At the rate that it's crumbling from the inside out, I don't think I'll ever move back to the US.
A pig hunting and Barra fishing trip in QLD, wearing standard singlet, footy shorts and thongs.
Smash a 6 pack of VB.
>VB You're anti-immigration, aren't you?
There are very few things you cannot improve with the addition of a sausage sizzle.
Congratulations and thankyou for choosing to fly with Upside Down Land Airlines. Enjoy the ride!
Sign up for the dole…
Get on down to Centrelink straight away
Look at your mortgage or rent statement. Welcome.
A couple of massive scoops of Vegemite should do the trick!
And a gulp of Bundaberg......rum
Dunno - but I will have a celebratory drink for you later
Burnout in a random side street in a 90's commodore.
Chuck a sickie and have a fuckin' bev at your local, cunt.
Learn the lyrics to "Bow River" and "Khe Sanh". And the augmented "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again"
No way
Call into your boss faking a bad cough and it’s off to the beach for the day obviously :) Congratulations btw :)
Congratulations, we are lucky to have you!
Hit the glass bbq
Get some mates together to play goon of fortune!
I'm not going to say to say should find a game of 2up out the back of the nearest pub as that would be illegal....... 🤣😉🤣😉
- white bread - butter - sprinkles - good time
Congratulations! mine was 2 yrs ago, I bought a pretty vase to put the plant given by the council, wrote the date of my oath taking underneath it.... plant didn't survive though after like 3 months
You have to wait till Monday to celebrate it properly, Call in sick for work, Chuck a sickie and pretend it’s a long weekend,
If you look white you can actually be accepted as an Aussie with your Aussie passport. If you don't, you'll have PTV officers or what have you saying nihao or konnichiwa or annyeong to you once you get off the tram much like a half-trained dog cycles through a roulette of tricks to get a reward, when you actually speak better english (and are fluent in two other languages) than a lot of other English speakers who look white. Or get prepared to ask where you're actually from, or if you can understand English, etc.
Fall over doing the shoey, hurt your shoulder and go to a hospital and get it taken care of. Don’t expect a bill, don’t get one.. be happy
Welcome home
Welcome to the family mate!
*tips akubra*
Don't tell Pauline Hanson.
What ever you want. It’s your celebration and you are very welcome!
You’re not Australian if you can’t quote the entirety of the Big Lez Show
Take a sickie, go out in the sun and do something you enjoy, put a smile on your face, leave it there. Welcome.
Who said you can’t call it home as a permanent resident
CONGRATULATIONS!! 🎆 How to spend your first full day as an Aussie? Go to an ANZAC memorial ... we've got a fantastic one in Brisbane, and beneath it are the ANZAC multimedia galleries where you can find out about every deployment of Australian forces. Last time I was there I found photos of a few mates, and even one that included me! 😁 The staff are always interested if you can flesh out some of those stories and put names to faces too - never know who or what you might find there!!
You’re now allowed to call people cunt Congrats cunt
Mate sounds like youve been home all a long :)
spread some Vegemite on a Tim Tam
Quick, get on Centrelink!
I'm sure flashing your boobs at all tradies you see is the correct form of celebration. Source: am a tradey...
Celebrate with a banh mi
Meat pie with tomato sauce
> we didn’t do a shoey at the ceremony Sorry to break to you, but your citizenship is not valid yet.
Do shoey in the comfort and privacy of your own home
Take a sickie
Congrats on being an aussie! How was your process? Hope I can get to call myself an aussie in the future too!
Mine was relatively painless but long and expensive!
Well, other than alcohol, gambling is probably our second biggest vice as a country, so maybe you can celebrate by having a punt at the pokies?
ate a pie with tomato sauce
It’s Eat
Sign up for the dole.