2021年6月24日，澳大利亚移民部长Alex Hawke公布从2021年7月1日起，内政部将更新入籍申请费。
这是自2016年以来入籍申请费的首次变化，是由入籍申请流程和成本决定的。新的费用与入籍申请端到端处理的综合方法相称，并反映了通货膨胀的成本、员工成本和申请复杂性的增加，以至于需要更长的时间来处理。 基于当前收取的费用，政府仅收回处理入籍申请成本的50%。
入籍申请的费用与其他国家保持可比性。 从2021 年7月1日起，授予公民身份的成本仍将低于英国、美国和加拿大。
Changes to Citizenship Application Fees
From 1 July 2021, the Department of Home Affairs will update citizenship application fees to more accurately reflect the cost of delivering the citizenship program.This is the first change to citizenship application fees since 2016 and has been determined by citizenship application processes and costs. The new fees are commensurate with the comprehensive approach to end-to-end processing of citizenship applications and reflect inflation costs, staffing costs and the increased complexity of applications, which take longer to process. Based on existing fees, the Government is only recovering approximately 50 per cent of the costs of processing citizenship applications.
The cost of citizenship applications remains comparable with other countries. From 1 July 2021, the cost of citizenship by conferral will still be lower than in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.
