“It won’t help to encourage people to take out citizenship,” he told SBS News.
“If you raise the price of something, it will make people less likely to take that up and I can’t see how that’s good policy.”
Mr Rizvi said when he was working in the immigration department in the 2000s there was a deliberate strategy to encourage as many budding citizens as possible.
But, he said, the policy changed in September 2005.
“Until 2005 we went to the extent of running TV ads encouraging people to take out citizenship,” he said.
“For whatever reason . ever since then successive governments gradually have made it harder and harder to get citizenship.”
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