It’s good news for those applying with an occupation on the priority skills list, with moderate scoring applicants expected to be invited in June 2021. These applicants will be the first to be invited.

The following is our predictions regarding the General Skilled Migration program and the SkillSelect Regime wait times.

All Occupations other than the “Pro-Rata” Occupations

Priority List Occupations (under COVID guidelines)

PRO-RATA OCCUPATIONS:

233512 Mechanical Engineers, 261312 Developer Programmer, 261313 Software Engineer, 233411 Electronics Engineers 

2611 ICT Analysts, 2613 ICT Software and Test Professionals, 2631 ICT Computer Network Professionals

2211 Accountants, 2212 Auditors

2335 Industrial & Production Engineers, 2339 Other Engineering Professionals

These predictions are based on historical statistics, the number of visas already granted, previous EOI scores at which invitations were issued and the number of places still remaining within the 2020-2021 program and may or may not occur as predicted.

Hopefully now you have a better idea of when SkillSelect invitations may be issued, if you have any questions about your visa or visa application contact Easymigrate – Australian Migration & Citizenship Services on +61 (08) 9221 4888 or book an appointment using the following link – https://easymigrate.as.me/schedule.php

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SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Results plus State-Nominated Invitation results are for:

1.  Skill Select EOI Invitation Round is for people who lodged an Expression of Interest (EOI)
2. The two GSM visa subclasses are 189 (Skilled Independent) (Australian Permanent visa) and subclass 491 (Skilled Family Sponsored) (Australian Provisional visa).
3. The two State-nominated visa subclasses are 190 (Skilled State-nominated) (Australian Permanent visa) and subclass 491 (Skilled State Nominated Regional) (Australian Provisional visa).

EasyMigrate is a leading Australian migration agency, based in Perth, Australia. Mr Cyrus Mistry (founder of EasyMigrate) has reviewed SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Results – see his comments below.

Skill Select & Migration News

• VETASSESS – COVID-19 IMMIGRATION UPDATES
• Matters Relating to Western Australia’s Economic Relationship with Republic of India
• Novel Coronavirus Information for Visa Holders 
• Visa conditions relaxed for backpackers in Australia
• WA – Graduate Occupation list Update

Tables:

For Non Pro rata occupations the Department of Immigration has announced points cut-off as per table below:

For Pro rata occupations the Department of Immigration has announced points cut-off as per table below:

Invitations issued during last 12 months:

Invitations issued for State Nominated SC190 and Regional State-nominated SC491 (February 2020 results have been published):

Hints & Tips

Apply for state-nominations also, in parallel. We have many clients who were waiting for more than a year for an invitation through SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Results. For these clients we complete a file-review and recommend a suitable state-nomination option. Many of them get invited for permanent residency WITHIN 2 to 3 MONTHS!

You can contact us for an “initial consultancy”, and we can review your case (link for online booking etc.) 

Summary

Next round is 11 April 2020. Commentary regarding that Skill Select invitation round will be published by EasyMigrate as soon as those statistics are made available by the Department of Immigration (usually one month later).

The SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Results for September 2019  was terrible  – 100 invitations instead of 1,000 invitations in July 2019. The 11 October 2019 was much better – with 1,500 invitations! Then, the SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Results for 11 November 2019 and 11 December 2019 rounds were very low and disappointing – only 250 invitations! 10 January 2020 and February 2020 invitations were better at 1000 invitations.

The latest SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Result (13 March 2020) is an improvement – 1750 invitations for subclass 189 independent applicants. But only 300 invitations have been issued for the new SC491 family-sponsored applicants, compared to 500 last month.

• 1,750 applicants for SC189 Independent with 90 points got invited (applied before 29-01-2020)
• 300 applicants for SC489 Family Sponsored with 85 points got invited (applied before 05-02-2020)

In my opinion this is the same as the previous pre-November 2019 rule changes score level “invitation at 80-85 points” for subclass 189. This is because applicants now get 5 or 10 more points for spouse if spouse is skilled and/or speaks good English, if applicants DO NOT have a spouse (10 points), etc. Similarly, applicants for SC491 Family Sponsored also get 15 more points from their regionally-located family.

For SC189 Independent:

• 1,311 invitations went to applicants with 90 points
• 341 invitations went to applicants with 95 points
• 67 invitations went to applicants with 100 points
• 20 invitations went to applicants with 105 points
• Approx 14 invitations went to applicants with 110 points or more.

For SC491-Family Sponsored:

• 45 invitations went to applicants with 85 points
• 131 invitations went to applicants with 90 points
• 71 invitations went to applicants with 95 points
• 44 invitations went to applicants with 100 points
• Approx 6 invitations went to applicants with 105 points or more.

There were no invitations to persons with 80 points or less (but historically, even at 70 points, 884 persons were invited in March 2019, 848 invited in Jan 2019 and 32 invited in February 2019).

Occupations Analysis

The cut-off for Skilled Independent (SC189) was 90 points, cut-off date 29-01-2020.

The previous cut-off for Skilled Regional Family Sponsored (SC491) was 85 points, cut-off date 08-01-2020 in previous invitation rounds. But this time 300 SC491 Family Sponsored applicants were invited, starting at 85 points with cut-off date 05-02-2020.

The “boom” months were between September 2018 and November 2018 at 4,350 invitations per month.

In the October 2018 invitation round, 70-point holders were also invited for SC189, but not anymore. This is due to a combination of increased numbers of applications received by the Department of Immigration and reduced quota for invitations.

For pro-rata Occupations:

For Accountants, the invitation threshold stayed steady at 95 points (It had come down to 80 points in January 2019). The cut-off date is published as 19-06-2019, which means that all “Accountant” applicants with 95 points who lodged before 19-06-2019 got invited. SC491 Family Sponsored applicants (Accountants, Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers) were not invited at all.

For the Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers occupations, the cut-off points-score has stayed at 95, and the cut-off date is now 13-01-2020. SC491 Family Sponsored applicants were not invited at all.

Electronics Engineers did not get invited for SC189 in the September 2019 or October 2019.  In December 2019 they had been invited at 95 points or more, cut-off date was 04-06-2019. Similar to the last round, Electronics Engineers have been invited a 90 points, cut-off date is 29-01-2020. SC491 Family Sponsored applicants were invited for Electronic Engineer occupation at 85 points, cut-off date 15-01-2020.

Historical Analysis

The number of monthly invitations used to hover around the “two thousand-plus” around 2017 good months.  They went lower between November 2017 to June 2018 at about 305 “SkillSelect” invitations per fortnight for the EOI applicants! 

From July 2018 the invitations were on par with the good months in previous year (2017).

The two rounds of October 2018 and November 2018 EXCEEDED our expectations at 4,340 invitations.  

But the December 2018 round and January 2019  halved to 2,500 invitations. February 2019,  March 2019  were FURTHER REDUCED to 1,500 invitations, and April 2019 plus May 2019 plus June 2019 invitations were a disappointing 100 invitations only. 

July 2019 invitations had bounced back to 1,000 invitations. But August 2019 and September 2019 had fallen back to just 100 invitations! October 2019 invitations looked much better at 1,500 invitations. But November 2019 round was very poor at 250 invitations. The December 2019 was not much better – 250 invitations for SC189 and 200 invitations for SC491-Family-Sponsored. The January 2020 and February 2020 invitations were better with 1,000 SC190 invitations and 300 to 500 SC491-Family-Sponsored invitations. The current round under review (13 March 2020) was much better at 1750 invitations for SC189 but 300 invitations for SC491 Family Sponsored.

The total number of invitations for the financial year (July 2018 to June 2019) was 22,920.

Based on July 2018,  August 2018, September 2018,  October 2018, November 2018,  December 2018  January 2019  February 2019 March 2019, April 2019 and May 2019 figures, I had forecast in my previous articles that the total number of EOI applicants invited for the financial year July 2018 to June 2019 would be  22,820 – my estimate was very close because the FINAL COUNT SkillSelect Invitation Round Results was 22,920!

Cyrus Mistry Comments:

Recent developments around the word regarding the Coronavirus is likely tyo have some effect on Dept of Immigration managers. As the “migration program” especially in the GSM and State-Nominated subclasses are “long term” processes taking 12-24 months to be finalised, we hope that the DoHA management keeps these subclasses ongoing and auaffected.

The effect of “re-invitation” continues to plague the SkillSelect invitations program. In my previous articles, I had mentioned about the impact of “re-invitation”. Many applicants have changed to other countries or changed their plans but have not removed their Expressions of Interest (EOI). So they get invited, but they do not apply within the next 60 days. These applicants usually get “re-invited” as per the Dept of Immigration rules one more time! I estimate this figure to be as high as 30-40% in many occupations. This severely affects the program. For example, out of the 1,000-odd invitations in January 2020 only about 600-800 may take it up, 200-400 “invites” are wasted! This is something that the Department of Home Affairs has not been able to tackle yet.

Please keep in mind that for the SC491 FAMILY-SPONSORED visa, the applicant needs to have scored 70 points “independently” plus the 15 points from their family-sponsor (if invitations are starting at 85 points). From 16 November 2019 onwards the new Subclass 491 Regional Family-Sponsored visa has come into effect, replacing the SC489.

Our EasyMigrate website has statistics for previous SkillSelect Invitation Round Results. My ongoing analysis commencing October 2017 invitation round and right up to the most recent invitation rounds are all available on our website. 

Department of Home Affairs Invitations Round Results

The results in the next section have been taken from the Department of Home Affairs website: 

Invitations issued on 13 March 2020

The following information has been taken from the Department of Home Affairs website. The table below shows the number of invitations issued in the SkillSelect invitation round on 13 March 2020.

During 2019-20 program year the following numbers of invitations have been issued:

13 March 2020 results

The following graph shows the points for clients who were invited to apply in the 13 March 2020 round.

Invitation process and cut offs

The highest ranked clients by points score are invited to apply for the relevant visa. For clients who have equal points scores, the time at which they reached their points score for that subclass (referred to as the date of effect) determines their order of invitation. Expressions of Interest with earlier dates of effect are invited before later dates.

Point scores and the dates of effect cut off for the pro rata occupations in the 13 March 2020 invitation round.

Due to high levels of demand, and in keeping with previous years, the below occupation groups will be subject to pro rata arrangements to ensure availability of invitations across the program year.

SkillSelect first allocates available places to Skilled – Independent visas (subclass 189) and then the remaining to Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491) – Family Sponsored . If all places are taken up by subclass 189 visas then there will be no invitations issued for subclass 491 visas in these occupations.

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The Department of  Home Affairs (DoHA) has released the statistical analysis of the  11th December 2019 “Skill Select EOI Invitation Round” results. 

By Cyrus Mistry

Who are these results for:

1.  Skill Select EOI Invitation Round is for people who lodged an Expression of Interest (EOI)
2. Submitted EOI’s must be for the General Skilled Migration or “GSM” stream of visa subclasses
3. The two GSM visa subclasses are 189 (Skilled Independent) (Australian Permanent visa) and subclass 489 (Skilled Family Sponsored) (Australian Provisional visa).

EasyMigrate is a leading Australian migration agency, based in Perth, Australia. Mr Cyrus Mistry (founder of EasyMigrate) has reviewed these SkillSelect results – see his comments below.

Skill Select & Migration News

• Australian Capital Territory (ACT) has released new State List for 2019 / 2020  – Have you ever wanted to Migrate to Australia and live in Canberra, but haven’t been able to because your occupation wasn’t on the required statelist? Now is your chance.
•  New South Wales (NWS) has released new State List for 2019/2020  – Have you ever wanted to Migrate to Australia and live in NSW, but haven’t been able to because your occupation wasn’t on the required statelist? Now is your chance.
• Northern Territory (NT) has released new State List for 2019/2020 –Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) Migration Occupation List includes occupations that are in demand in the NT eligible for NT nomination under the General Skilled Migration Program. If your occupation is not on the NT Migration Occupations List but is on the Department of Home Affairs, Combined current list of eligible skilled occupations and identified as being eligible for subclass 491 (S/T) or subclass 190 visa you can still apply for NT Government nomination.a
   

Previous Updates

• Western Australia released new State List for 2019 / 2020 -Have you ever wanted to Migrate to Australia and live in Perth, but haven’t been able to because your occupation wasn’t on the required state-list, or that Perth wasn’t a specified regional area? Now is your chance – the WA “Graduate Occupations List” is quite extensive and has now been expanded to students who have studied at CERTIFICATE or DIPLOMA levels in WA, not just BACHELORS and MASTERS degree holders.
•  Queensland released new State List for 2019 / 2020 – Have you ever wanted to Migrate to Australia and live on the Gold Coast, but haven’t been able to because your occupation wasn’t on the required state-list, or that Gold Coast wasn’t a specified regional area? Now is your chance.
• South Australia released new State List for 2019 / 2020 – The South Australian government has now released its 2019-2020 Skilled Migration Occupation Lists, if you have previously applied or are now interested in applying for state nomination in South Australia under the General Skilled Migration (GSM) program, now could be your chance.

Hints & Tips

Apply for state-nominations also, in parallel. We have many clients who were waiting for more than a year, so we do a file-review and recommend a suitable state-nomination option. Many of them get invited for permanent residency WITHIN 2 to 3 MONTHS!

You can contact us for an “initial consultancy”, and we can review your case (link for online booking etc.) 

Summary:

Next round is 11 January 2020. Commentary regarding that Skill Select invitation round will be published by EasyMigrate as soon as those statistics are made available to the public by the Department of Immigration (usually one month later).

The invitation round for September 2019  was terrible  – 100 invitations instead of 1,000 invitations in July 2019. The 11 October 2019 was much better – with 1,500 invitations! Then, the 11 November 2019 round was very low and disappointing – only 250 invitations! This latest round (11 December 2019) is the same at 250 invitations for subclass 189 applicants and another 200 invitations for the new SC491 family-sponsored applicants.

The exact number of invitations on  11th  December 2019: 

250 invitations in the Skilled Independent subclass 189 and 200 invitation in the new subclass 491 family-sponsored stream. The Family-Sponsored Subclass 489 has been discontinued from 16 Nov 2019 and replaced by the “SC491 Family Sponsored” stream.

For this round, no invitations went to applicants who have 90 points or less (but in my opinion this is the same as the previous “invitation at 80 points”. This is because applicants now get more points for spouse if spouse is skilled or speaks good English, applicants also get more points if they are “SC491 Family Sponsored”, etc).

• 169 SC189 invitations and 132 SC491-Family-sponsored invitations went to applicants with 95 points.
• 49 invitations went to applicants with 100 points for both SC189 and SC491-Family-Sponsored applicants.
• 16 SC189 invitations and 18 SC491-Family-sponsored invitations went to applicants with 105 points.
• Approximately 20 SC189 invitations and approximately 5 SC491-Family-sponsored invitations went to applicants with 110 or more points. 

There were no invitations to persons with 90 points or less (but historically, even at 70 points, 884 were invited in March 2019, 848 invited in Jan 2019 and 32 invited in February 2019).

Occupations Analysis

The cut-off for Skilled Independent (SC189) was 95 points, cut-off date 30-11-2019. This means that only the 250-odd persons with 95 points and above got invited.

The previous cut-off for Skilled Family Sponsored (SC489) was 85 points, cut-off date 15-08-2019 in previous invitation rounds. But this time 200 SC491 Family Sponsored applicants were invited, with cut-off date 04-12-2019.

The “boom” months were between September 2018 and November 2018 at 4,350 invitations per month.

In the October 2018 invitation round, 70-point holders were also invited for SC189, but not anymore. This is due to an increase in the number of applications received by the Department of Immigration and reduced number of invitations.

For the twentyfirst round of invitations, DoHA has been inviting Accountants, Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers! For Accountants, the invitation threshold has GONE UP TO 100 points as compared to the previous round of 11 November 2019 (It had come down to 80 points in January 2019). The cut-off date is published as 19-11-2019, which means that all “Accountant” applicants with 90 points who lodged before 19-11-2019 got invited. SC491 Family Sponsored applicants were not invited at all.

For the Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers occupations listed above, the cut-off points-score has gone up to 95, and the cut-off date is now 27-05-2019. SC491 Family Sponsored applicants were not invited at all.

Electronics Engineers did not get invited for SC189 in the September 2019 or October 2019.  In November 2019 they have been invited at 80 points or more, cut-off date was 04-06-2019. For this latest round, Electronics Engineers have been invited a 95 points, cut-off date is 30-11-2019. SC491 Family Sponsored applicants were invited for Electrical Engineer occupation at 100 points, cut-off date 04-12-2019.

For Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers – last month the new invitations stopped at 95 points, with cut-off date 10-11-2019. The situation has remained the same –invitations have been issued at 95 points, with cut-off date 29-09-2019! SC491 Family Sponsored applicants were not invited at all.

(Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers were previously invited in November 2018 at 70 points)

Other Engineering Professionals also got the invitation-score increased from 85 points to 95 points! The date of effect is 18-11-2019. SC491 Family Sponsored applicants were not invited at all.

For ICT Business and Systems Analysts – the SC189 invitation threshold has increased from 85 points to 95 points with the visa date of effect 27-11-2019. In this occupation, SC491-Family-Sponsored applicants were also invited at 95 points with cut-off date 18-11-2019.

Software and Application Programmers – for SC189 the pass mark increased from 85 to 95 points; the cut-off date is now 30-11-2019. In this occupation, SC491-Family-Sponsored applicants were invited at 95 points, cut-off date 29-11-2019.

Computer Network Professionals – SC189 applicants got invited at 95 points with the visa date of effect 29-11-2019. In this occupation, SC491-Family-Sponsored applicants were invited at 95 points, cut-off date 02-12-2019.

If the number of invitations goes up in future general skilled migration program invitations, then more occupations with 90 points or less are likely to be invited. From the next invitation round onwards (January 2020) we will start to see the new Subclass 491 invitations increase as a full-month of application-time kicks in. This is likely to dilute the SC189 applicant’s chances. My recommendation is: PLEASE CONTACT US TO SEE IF YOU ARE ELIGIBLE AND THEN LODGE SC491 EOIs ALSO, LODGE SC190 EOIs ALSO IF ELIGIBLE.

With the quota having re-set on 1^st July 2019 (financial year-end), I expect to see a SUBSTANTIAL increase in the number of invitations in the next few invitation rounds. But from December 2019 round onwards the new Subclass 491 visa (Regional Family Sponsored) has also come under the Expression of Interest scheme so there will be fluctuations and variations. The new SC 491 visa replaced the “old” SC489 visa on 16^th November 2019.

Please note that the EOI date resets each time an applicant does an “upgrade” or change — for example, additional points for age, extra points for work-experience, successful NAATI test, extra points for “single-status”, etc.

Overall, the Australia Government has announced that the quota for general skilled migration is to be reduced from 190,000 to 160,000. This will also affect applicants in future.

Historical Analysis

The number of monthly invitations used to hover around the “two thousand-plus” around 2017-2018 good months.  They went lower between November 2017 to June 2018 at about 305 “SkillSelect” invitations per fortnight for the EOI applicants! 

From July 2018 the invitations were on par with the good months in previous years.

The two rounds of October 2018 and November 2018 EXCEEDED our expectations at 4,340 invitations.  

But the December 2018 round and January 2019  halved to 2,500 invitations. February 2019,  March 2019  were FURTHER REDUCED to 1,500 invitations, and April 2019 plus May 2019 plus June 2019 invitations were a disappointing 100 invitations only. 

July 2019 invitations had bounced back to 1,000 invitations. But August 2019 and September 2019 had fallen back to just 100 invitations! October 2019 invitations looked much better at 1,500 invitations. But November 2019 round was very poor at 250 invitations. This latest round (December 2019) is not much better – 250 invitations for SC189 and 200 invitations for SC491-Family-Sponsored.

The total number of invitations for the financial year (July 2018 to June 2019) was 22,920.

Based on July 2018,  August 2018, September 2018,  October 2018, November 2018,  December 2018  January 2019  February 2019 March 2019, April 2019 and May 2019 figures, I had forecast in my previous articles that the total number of EOI applicants invited for the financial year July 2018 to June 2019 would be  22,820 – my estimate was very close because the FINAL COUNT was 22,920!

Cyrus Mistry Comments

Recent announcements by the Department of Home Affairs (DoHA) point to a further slow-down in the number of “general skilled migration” (GSM) invitations.

The effect of “re-invitation” continues to plague the SkillSelect invitations program. In my previous articles, I had mentioned about the impact of “re-invitation”. Many applicants have moved on to other countries or changed their plans but have not removed their Expressions of Interest (EOI). So they get invited, but they do not apply within the next 60 days. These applicants usually get “re-invited” as per the Dept of Immigration rules one more time! I estimate this figure to be as high as 30-40% in many occupations. This severely affects the program. For example, out of the 1,500-odd invitations in March 2019 only about 900-1000 may get taken up! This is something that the Department of Home Affairs has not been able to tackle yet.

This time, few invitations were issued to new SC491 Family-Sponsored applicants. The points allotted for Family-Sponsorship under the new legislation have increased from 10 to 15 points. Please keep in mind that for the SC491 FAMILY-SPONSORED visa, the applicant needs to have scored 80 points “independently” plus the 15 points from their family-sponsor (if invitations are being issued at 95 points). From 16 November 2019 onwards the new Subclass 491 Regional Family-Sponsored visa has come into effect, replacing the SC489.

On our EasyMigrate website, we have the statistics. My ongoing analysis for the  October 2017 invitations; the November 2017 invitation round and the December 2017 round are available. January 2018 round, February 2018 round, March 2018 round, April 2018 round, May 2018 Round, the two x June 2018 rounds, the 11th July 2018, 11^th August 2018   the 11 September 2018,  October 2018, November 2018,  December 2018 rounds are available.  January 2019,  February 2019,  March 2019,  April 2019  May 2019,  June 2019 July 2019 ,August 2019,   September 2019  October 2019 and November 2019 invitation rounds are also available on our website. 

Department of Home Affairs Invitations Round Results

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The Department of  Home Affairs (DoHA) has released the statistical analysis of the 11^th June 2019 “Skill Select EOI Invitation Round” results. This is for persons who lodged Expressions of Interest (EOI) for the General Skilled Migration or “GSM” visa subclass 189 (Skilled Independent) (Australian Permanent visa) and subclass 489 (Skilled Family Sponsored) (Australian Provisional visa).

EasyMigrate is a leading Australian migration agency, based in Perth, Australia. EasyMigrate’s Migration Consultant Mr Cyrus Mistry (our principal immigration consultant in Australia) has reviewed these SkillSelect results – see his comments below.

Broad Overview:

New SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round news: From 1 July 2018 the “pass mark” has been increased from 60 to 65 points. New applicants can lodge their Expression Of Interest (EOI) with 65 points or more. Other applicants who submitted their EOI before 30 June 2018 with 60 points will continue to stay in the queue.

New SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round news: Department of Immigration (now DoHA) has announced that from Financial Year 2018-2019 there will be only ONE ROUND OF SKILL SELECT INVITATIONS PER MONTH – usually around the eleventh of the month.

Our Recommendation: Most applicants with 60 or 65 points are not getting invited at all since the last 18 months or so. Many 70-pointers are also not getting invitations for a long time.

SOLUTION: apply for state-nominations also, in parallel. We have many clients who were waiting for a more than a year, so we do a file-review and recommend a suitable state-nomination option. Many of them get invited for permanent residency WITHIN 2 to 3 MONTHS!

You can contact us for an “initial consultancy”, and we can review your case (link for online booking etc.).

Summary:

Next round will be 11 July 2019. Commentary regarding that Skill Select invitation round will be published by EasyMigrate as soon as those statistics are made available to the public by the Department of Immigration.

Compared to the last invitation round (09 May 2019) this current Round was a repeat of the same disappointment – only 100 invitations! Compare this to 4,350 invitations per month during the “boom” months that we had between September 2018 and November 2018.

The exact number of invitations on 11^th April 2019: 100 invitations in the Skilled Independent SC189 subclass and 10 in the Family-Sponsored Subclass 489. As before, my analysis is that the “quota” for the year 2018-2019 is running out and the Department of Immigration is adjusting the figures to keep the final year count within the recently announced “reductions”.

For this round, 59 were to applicants who have 85 points.

Twenty-two invitations were given to applicants having 90 points.

Nineteen invitations were given to persons with 95 points or more. 

There were no invitations to persons with 70 points (compared to 884 in March 2019, 848 in Jan 2019 and 32 in February 2019).

This time, there were NO INVITES to applicants with 75 points or 80 points either.

Occupations Analysis:

The cut-off for Skilled Independent (SC189) was 85 points, cut-off date 10-06-2019.

The cut-off for Skilled Family Sponsored (SC489) was 85 points, cut-off date 05-06-2019.

This is now the fifteenth round of invitations where DoHA has re-commenced inviting Accountants, Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers! For Accountants, the invitation threshold has gone up to 95 points as compared to the previous round of 09 May 2019 (It had come down to 80 points in January 2019). The cut-off date is published as 10-06-2019, which means that all “Accountant” applicants with 95 points who lodged before 10-06-2019 got invited. For the other occupations listed above, the cut-off points-score has gone up to 90, and the cut-off date is 28-05-2019 (in the last round of invitations this was 28-12-2018).

Electronics Engineers got invited at 90 points with the date of effect 10-06-2019. In the October 2018 invitation round, 70-point holders were also invited, but not anymore. So this is due to a combination of factors: an increase in the number of applications received by the Department of Immigration and reduced number of invitations because of end of the financial year (July2018-June2019).

Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers were previously invited at 70 points with a date of effect 04-02-2019. But new invitations stop at 85 points, with cut-off date 20-05-2019.

Other Engineering Professionals got invited at 85 points with the date of effect 23-05-2019.  

ICT Professionals (Business and Systems Analysts) got invited at 85 points with the visa date of effect 10-05-2019.

ICT Professionals (Software and Application Programmers) – the pass mark had previously remained steady at 75 points with the visa date of effect 13-02-2019. Unfortunately, the pass mark has gone up to 85 points from 11 June 2019; the cut-off date is now 07-06-2019.  

ICT Professionals (Computer Network Professionals) got invited at 85 points with the visa date of effect 31-05-2019 – this moved forward by two months.

So for most ICT professionals, there is now a substantial waiting in the queue for their Expression of Interest to be converted into an “invite”.

If the number of invitations goes up in future general skilled migration program invitations, then more occupations with 80, 75 and 70 points are likely to be invited. With the quota re-setting on 1 July 2019 (financial year end), I expect to see a SUBSTANTIAL increase in the number of invitations in the next 11 July 2019 round.

Please note that the EOI date resets each time an applicant does an “upgrade” or change, e.g. additional points for age, extra points for work-experience, successful NAATI test, etc.

Overall, the Australia Government has announced that the quote for general skilled migration is to be reduced from 190,000 to 160,000. This will affect applicants in future.

Historical Analysis:

The number of monthly invitations used to hover around the “two thousand-plus” mark for last few months and were even lower between November 2017 and June 2018 at about 305 “SkillSelect” invitations per fortnight for the EOI applicants! 

For July 2018, 1,010 invitations had been issued to persons who had lodged their Expression of Interest (EOI). This was better than the 610 invitations being issued from Nov 2017 onwards until June 2018. But still a lot less than the 2,000-odd invitations that were being issued per month before October 2017. Until January 2019 the number of invitations was regularly above the two-thousand mark. In the 11 August 2018, AND the 11 September 2018 SkillSelect results were above the two-thousand mark – then jumped up to 4,340 invitations on 11 October 2018 and 11 November 2018 invitations. December 2018 and January 2019 invitation-rounds have seen a drop-back to the 2,000+ levels and reduced further since February 2019,  March-2019 and April 2019 invitation-rounds.

The total number of invitations for the last financial year (July 2017 to June 2018) was 22,920.

Based on July 2018,  August 2018, September 2018,  October 2018, November 2018,  December 2018  January 2019  February 2019 March 2019, April 2019 and May 2019 figures, I had forecast in my last article that the total number of EOI applicants invited for this financial year (July 2018 to June 2019) would be  22,820 – my estimate was very close because the FINAL COUNT is 22,920!

But recent announcements by the Department of Home Affairs (DoHA) point to a further slow-down in the number of “general skilled migration” (GSM) invitations.

The effect of “re-invitation” continues to plague the SkillSelect invitations program. In my previous articles, I had mentioned about the impact of “re-invitation”. Many applicants have moved on to other countries or changed their plans but have not removed their Expressions of Interest (EOI). So they get invited, but they do not apply within the next 60 days. These applicants usually get “re-invited” as per the Dept of Immigration rules one more time! I estimate this figure to be as high as 30-40% in many occupations. This severely affects the program. For example, out of the 1,500-odd invitations in March 2019 only about 900-1000 get taken up! This is something that the Department of Home Affairs has not been able to tackle yet.

For this latest round of invitations under the subclass 189 (Skilled Independent) visa, only 100 invitations were issued, at 85 points or above. Only ten invitations were issued to SC489 Family-Sponsored applicants –at 90 points or above… so as you can see, the SC489 FAMILY-SPONSORED applicant needs to have scored 80 points “independently” plus the 10 points from their family-sponsor. 

On our EasyMigrate website, we have the statistics. My ongoing analysis for the  October 2017 invitations; the November 2017 invitation round and the December 2017 round are available. January 2018 round, February 2018 round, March 2018 round, April 2018 round, May 2018 Round, the two x June 2018 rounds, the 11th July 2018, 11^th August 2018   the 11 September 2018,  October 2018, November 2018,  December 2018 rounds are available.  January 2019,  February 2019,  March 2019,  April 2019 and May 2019 invitation rounds are also available on our website. 

Comment: from July 2018 the invitations are on par with the good months up to September 2017 in previous years, and the two rounds of October 2018 and November 2018 EXCEEDED our expectations.  But the December 2018 round and January 2019 has halved to 2,500 invitations. Now February 2019,  March 2019  are FURTHER REDUCED to 1,500 invitations, and April 2019 plus May 2019 invitations are a disappointing 100 invitations only.

Please note that these figures do not include invitations under the state-nominated subclass 190 and state-nominated “Regional” subclass 489.

Invitations issued on 11 June 2019

The table below shows the number of invitations issued in the SkillSelect invitation round on 11 June 2019.

During 2018-19 program year the following numbers of invitations have been issued:

11 June 2019 results

The following graph shows the points for clients who were invited to apply in the 11 June 2019 round.

Invitation process and cut offs

The highest ranked clients by points score are invited to apply for the relevant visa. For clients who have equal points scores, the time at which they reached their points score for that subclass (referred to as the date of effect) determines their order of invitation. Expressions of Interest with earlier dates of effect are invited before later dates.

Point scores and the dates of effect cut off for the pro rata occupations in the 11 June 2019 invitation round.

Due to high levels of demand, and in keeping with previous years, the below occupation groups will be subject to pro-rata arrangements to ensure availability of invitations across the program year.

SkillSelect first allocates available places to Skilled – Independent visas (subclass 189) and then the remaining to Skilled – Regional (Provisional) visas (subclass 489). If all places are taken up by subclass 189 visas then there will be no invitations issued for subclass 489 visas in these occupations.

Invitations issued during 2018-19 program year

The above figures do not include invitations issued for State and Territory Government nominated visa subclasses. State and Territory Governments nominate throughout the month for specific points tested skilled migration and business innovation and investment visas.

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