You might need to replace an Australian citizenship certificate that has been lost, destroyed or damaged due to a natural disaster. Like a bushfire, flood or storm.
If we list the natural disaster here, and you apply for a new certificate within 18 months of the date listed for the event, there is no application fee.
If you apply more than 18 months after the date listed here for the event, you will have to pay the application fee.
Apply for a replacement citizenship certificate using paper Form 119 - Application for evidence of Australian citizenship.
With your application you must provide:
- a statutory declaration stating that the Australian citizenship evidence has been lost, destroyed or damaged due to the natural disaster
- if the Australian citizenship evidence is damaged, then you must provide the damaged citizenship evidence
Australian Capital Territory
13 January 2018
ACT Wind Storm
New South Wales
March 2018
Bega Bushfire
February 2018
Tamworth, Uralla and Gwydir Bushfires
17 January 2018
Narrabri and Warrumbungle bushfires
13 January 2018
Singleton, Cessnock and Muswellbrook Bushfires
8 January 2018
Port Stephens Bushfire
25 December 2017
Tamworth Bushfires
18 December 2017
Singleton Bushfires
9 December 2017
Clarence Valley Storm
5 December 2017
Kempsey and Port Macquarie-Hasting Bushfire
5-6 November 2017
Eastern NSW Storms
26 October 2017
East Coast Storms
23 September 2017
Mid coast, Port Macquarie Hastings, Dungog and Upper Hunter Bushfires
12 September 2017
Cessnock Bushfire
8 September 2017
Tenterfield Bushfires
30 August 2017
Mid Coast and Port Macquarie-Hastings Bushfires
27 August 2017
Kempsey Bushfire
Northern Territory
March 2018
Tropical Cyclone Marcus
January 2018
Daly River Flooding
Queensland
24- 29 March 2018
Tropical Cyclone Nora and associated flooding
6 – 10 March 2018
North Queensland Flooding
24 February – 8 March 2018
North and North Queensland Low – Storm and Flood
20 – 21 February 2018
Central and South West Qld Storm
19 January 2018 – 2 February 2018
Cape York Queensland Trough
16 – 19 October 2017
Central Coast Queensland Severe Weather and associated rainfall and flooding
South Australia
Tasmania
17 October 2017
St Helen's Bushfire
Victoria
17 March 2018
South West Victoria Storms and Bushfires in the affected local government areas of:
- Colac Otway
- Corangamite
- Moyne
- Southern Grampians
- Warrnambool
19 December 2017
Victorian Storms
1 December 2017
Victorian Floods and Storms
26 November 2017
Pyrenees Storms
16 August 2017
West Victoria Floods and Storms
Western Australia
17 -19 February 2018
Tropical Cyclone Kevin and associated flooding
29 – 31 January 2018
Tropical Low and Associated Flooding in the Kimberley and East Pilbara
11 – 16 January 2018
Rainfall following Tropical Cyclone Joyce
27 December 2017
Tropical Cyclone Hilda and associated heavy rainfall in Broome and West Kimberley
25 -26 September 2017
Flooding in the Great Southern Region
