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Subclass 190 visa state-by-state nominations Oct 2020

Ana Carolina — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 06:16:26 +0000

The subclass 190 Skilled Nominated visa will be opening for application in some states in October. The following is a state-by-state summary of current subclass 190 visa programmes in Australia. It may help you plan your next move with confidence.

NSW: Only applicants currently in selected health, ICT and engineering occupations will be invited, and only those who currently reside in NSW. You do not need to submit a new EOI in SkillSelect if your current EOI is valid.

https://www.business.nsw.gov.au/live-and-work-in-nsw/visas-and-immigration/skilled-visas/Skilled-Nominated-visa-subclass-190

VIC: Victoria has limited its list of subclass 190 occupations and applicants who submitted a Registration of Interest on the Live in Melbourne website before 5pm AEST on the 21st September are being considered for application.

https://liveinmelbourne.vic.gov.au/migrate/skilled-migration-visas/skilled-nominated-visa-subclass-190

SA: Will be posting the subclass 190 visa occupation list soon. Stay up to date here:

https://www.migration.sa.gov.au/occupation-lists/south-australia-skilled-occupation-list

TAS: Will continue to operate an interim occupation list for the Subclass 190 visa. Updates here:

https://www.migration.tas.gov.au/skilled_migrants/skilled_nominated_visa

QLD: The Business and Skilled Migration Queensland program remains closed until the allocations are finalised by the Federal government.

https://migration.qld.gov.au/latest-news/bsmq-business-and-skilled-program-remains-closed-on-1-july-2020/

WA: The subclass 190 visa nominations are expected to restart in October. Follow developments here:

https://migration.wa.gov.au/services/skilled-migration-western-australia/how-to-apply-for-state-nomination

NT: Onshore General Skilled Migration nomination applications and all Business Investment and Innovation Program nomination applications will continue to be accepted and assessed, but no nominations can be issued until the Northern Territory has been allocated quotas. There are no offshore applications being accepted yet.

https://theterritory.com.au/migrate/migrate-to-work/northern-territory-government-visa-nomination

ACT: 190 applications are being accepted for people on the Critical Skills Occupation list. A new round of nominations is expected on October 23.

http://www.canberrayourfuture.com.au/portal/migrating/article/canberra-matrix-invitation-round/

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South Australia Skilled Visa Recommencing Soon

Ana Carolina — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 09:14:17 +0000

South Australia is preparing to open its borders to International arrivals! From the 31st of August 2020, South Australia will review expressions of interest on the Department of Home Affairs SkillSelect system, with certain Applicants getting priority.

The visas are the Skilled Work (Provisional) visa subclass 491 and Skilled Nominated visa subclass 190.

If you are critical to supporting South Australia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including individuals providing critical or specialist medical services, critical skills required to maintain the supply of essential goods and services or delivering services in sectors critical to Australia’s economic recovery you may be given priority.

Or if you apply via the Business Innovation and Investment Program and your application is of a high standard, you will have a better chance of being granted a visa.

What is your plan for your future in Australia? To apply for a visa or request advice contact Easymigrate – Australian Migration & Citizenship Services on (08) 9221 4888 or book an appointment using the following link: https://easymigrate.as.me/schedule.php

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WA introduced a new Regional WA only category

Emma Gallagher — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 05:39:11 +0000

Perth, Western Australia from Kings Park

Migration Update WA Occupation List

A new condition has been applied to some health care related occupations in the WA state nomination. In the last week, WA has introduced a new category that applies to some health-care sector occupations. WA state nomination has announced that following occupations are subject to the “Regional WA only category”.

252711 Audiologist
253111 General Practitioner
254111 Midwife
254413 Registered Nurse (Child and Family Health)
254414 Registered Nurse (Community Health)
254415 Registered Nurse (Critical care and Emergency)
254422 Registered Nurse (Mental Health)
254423 Registered Nurse (Perioperative)
251511 Hospital Pharmacist

All the occupations that fall under the “Regional WA only” category must have an offer letter or the contract of employment from a regional area to be able to apply for Graduate stream or General stream. This condition is applicable to both the visas: 190 visa as well as 491 visa.

Following postcodes are considered as the regional areas for this category: 6041 to 6044, 6084, 6207, 6213, 6215 to 6537, and 6560 to 6770.

Source: https://migration.wa.gov.au/services/skilled-migration-western-australia/occupation%20lists

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Western Australia Now Open for Migration

Emma Gallagher — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 07:42:34 +0000

Apply to live and work in Perth, Western Australia

Migrate to Perth, Western Australia

Words by Emma Gallagher

Australia is one of the largest countries on our planet, and Western Australia (known as WA) is the largest state. WA covers an impressive third of Australia’s landmass. The Indian Ocean borders WA to the west and north, the Great Australian Blight and the Southern Ocean to the south, South Australia to the southeast and the Northern Territory to the northeast.

The States capital Perth, is known for being one of the most isolated cities in the world. The closest city is Adelaide in South Australia, which is a short 2,200km away. Perth may be isolated, but this has not stopped Perth becoming one of Australia’s fastest-growing cities over the last decade.

Due to the mining boom, Western Australia is full of young people from all over the world working in every industry and profession.

Perth from Kings Park

Why you should move to Perth

Perth has fantastic public transport, excellent bicycle/pedestrian paths that run for hundreds of kilometres along some of the world’s most beautiful coastline. There are numerous vast open spaces throughout the city and suburbs alike filled with walks, lakes, parks and shaded areas to escape the midday sun. Try to imagine what it would be like to live in a city where the public facilities are better than fantastic, free hot showers at the beach and free sizzling barbecues to use at the many beaches and parks.

Regional Area and Regional Visas

Western Australia is a regional area (including Perth), meaning that you can apply for the new regional visas subclass 491 and 494. To apply for a State Nominated Skilled visa (subclass 190 or 491), you must be nominated by a State or Territory such as the Government of Western Australia (WA). To be eligible for WA nomination you must meet both the Department of Home Affairs (Home Affairs) criteria for the nominated visa and the WA criteria for State nomination.

Family enjoying a day out in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia

DAMA Area

Western Australia’s Goldfields region currently has an active Designated Area Migration Agreement (DAMA) agreement. DAMA is a formal agreement between the Australian Government and a regional, state or territory authority. It provides access to more overseas workers than the standard skilled migration program.

Study Pathways

Western Australia has world-class education institutions like Edith Cowan and Curtin Universities. It is to see why thousands of international students come in their droves not only they receive some of the education in the world, but they provided with a safe environment to study and has a strong economy. It is a resource-rich growth state, providing the opportunity for industry work experience and part-time work while you study. Not mention some students may be eligible for Graduate visas pathways which can lead to Australian permanent residency once they complete their studies.

With over 2 million people, including a mix of cultures from all around the world, speaking over 170 languages and practising over 100 religions, you’ll always feel welcome and respected in Western Australia.

Western Australia is not the only part of Australia that allows valid applicants to apply, The Gold Coast, Queensland, Northern Territory, Regional Victoria, Regional New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania all are open to immigration applications.

If you would like more information on getting started on your journey to Australia, please fill in our initial Online Assessment form to see if you qualify. You can book a face-2-face appointment, telephone or Skype with one of our Registered Migrations Agents through our online booking calendar.

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Pros and Cons of New Regional Visas

Emma Gallagher — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 06:01:44 +0000

by Victoria Cassey and Clarence Ling

Regional Australia – The Outback

Pros and cons of the newly announced visa for the Australian regional areas

Two new regional visas, came into force this month, have opened the door for qualified immigrants to obtain permanent residence and ultimately citizenship.

The new regional pathways are excellent news for potential migrants who want to live in Australia, but there is one problem: you have to live and work in a specific or regional area.

If you meet this requirement, this could open the door to obtain permanent residence. After a few years, you may even be eligible for citizenship.

The Australian government announced that eligible immigrants would receive two new temporary visas that started on 16th November 2019. The list for these visas includes hundreds of occupations, including real estate agents, journalists, accountants, paramedics, filmmakers, historians, among other things, will be able to apply for this visa.

Persons who have been granted a regional visa may apply for permanent residence if they demonstrate that they have lived in a given area for at least three years.

The two new visas are:

Regional town in Australia lighting Christmas lights

Pros and Cons

“States are very interested in this because it creates the motivation to live in small cities,”

The Government has also simplified the definition of Australia’s territory. With the exception of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane metro postcodes, all Australia has been reclassified for immigration purposes.

This means that skilled immigrants can settle in satellite cities such like Wollongong, Newcastle or Geelong not far from Sydney or Melbourne. Other options include the Gold Coast, an hour’s drive from Brisbane and Perth the capital city of Western Australia.

Immigration agent Cyus Mistry say that these cities are ready to benefit more from the new changes.

Cyrus also said that regional visa holders will also

“qualify for health insurance, which will reduce the cost of living for families States are very interested in this because it creates the motivation to live in small cities .”

Benefits for International Students

For international students, students studying in Australia, the “Postgraduate Visa” can be extended to “three or four years” or, in some cases, if the student takes a two-year course in a regional city, the visa can be extended to “three or four years”. Conditions apply.

Most importantly, “the vast majority of states have permanent residency nomination programs for their graduates, so the study becomes the way to permanent residence.”

Mr. Mistry said these are “particularly exciting programs” in Perth.

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SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Results for 11th October 2019

Emma Gallagher — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:33:24 +0000

Invitation rounds for Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) and Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489) visas will be run once a month.
Invitation rounds are anticipated to run on the 11^th day of each month. Dates for the rounds are subject to change.

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

Who are these results for:

Skill Select EOI Invitation Round is for people who lodged an Expression of Interest (EOI)
Submitted EOI’s must be for the General Skilled Migration or “GSM” stream of visa subclasses
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.

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Skill Select & Migration News

New Skill Select Point System commences 16th November 2019 – The Australian Skilled Migrant points system has been revised points, so skilled migrants have new ways to earn points towards their score.
Perth and Gold Coast to be classified as REGIONAL – Skilled migrants are now being encouraged to move to Perth and the Gold Coast as the Federal Government grapples with congestion in Australia’s three biggest cities.
Extra options for international graduates from regional institutions – Subclass 485 Holders May Be Eligible For Extra One Year

Previous Updates

New SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round news: From 1 July 2018 the “pass mark” was increased from 60 to 65 points July 2018. DOHA confirmed November 2019 that the pass mark will remain at 65.
Changes in State Nomination Migration Program of WA’s Graduate Stream Criteria – International students who study in Western Australia will soon find The State Nomination Migration Program (SNMP) Graduate stream more accessible.
Changes on Points test for General Skilled Migration: (apply to 189, 190, 489, and 491) from 16 November 2019 – There have been recently announced changes in the points test for General Skilled Migration. They apply to visa subclasses 189, 190, 489, and 491 from 16 November 2019.

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 November 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 (usually one month later).

The last invitation round (11 September 2019) was terrible – 100 invitations instead of 1,000 invitations in July 2019. But the last round (11 October 2019) was much better – with 1,500 invitations!

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

The exact number of invitations on 11th October 2019:

1,500 invitations in the Skilled Independent subclass 189 and zero in the Family-Sponsored Subclass 489.

For this round, no invitations went to applicants who have 75 points or less.

318 invitations went to applicants with 80 points.
992 invitations went to applicants with 85 points.
149 invitations were given to applicants having 90 points.
38 invitations were given to persons with 95 points.

There were no invitations to persons with 70 points (compared to 884 in March 2019, 848 in Jan 2019 and 32 in February 2019). There were no invitations to persons with 75 points either.

Occupations Analysis

The cut-off for Skilled Independent (SC189) was 85 points, cut-off date 04-06-2019.

The previous cut-off for Skilled Family Sponsored (SC489) was 85 points, cut-off date 15-08-2019 in last invitation round. But this time none of the SC489 Family Sponsored applicants were invited.

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 nineteenth round of invitations, DoHA has been inviting Accountants, Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers! For Accountants, the invitation threshold has DROPPED to 90 points as compared to the previous round of 11 September 2019 (It had come down to 80 points in January 2019). The cut-off date is published as 06-09-2019, which means that all “Accountant” applicants with 90 points who lodged before 06-09-2019 got invited.

For the Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers occupations listed above, the cut-off points-score has remained steady at 85, and the cut-off date is 12-04-2019.

Electronics Engineers did not get invited for SC189 in the last round but this time they have been invited at 80 points or more, cut-off date 04-06-2019.

For Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers – new invitations stop at 80 points, with cut-off date 11-12-2018.This result is a lot better than last month – when invitations had stopped at 95 points!

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

Other Engineering Professionals also got the invitation-score dropped from 95 points to 80 points! The date of effect is 03-04-2019.

However, Engineering Professionals AND applicants in all other occupations who had a FAMILY SPONSOR (SC489) did not get invited at all.

For ICT Business and Systems Analysts – the SC189 invitation threshold has dropped from 85 points to 80 points with the visa date of effect 20-03-2019.

Software and Application Programmers – for SC189 the pass mark dropped from 85 points to 80 points; the cut-off date is now 09-04-2019.

Computer Network Professionals – SC189 applicants got invited at 80 points with the visa date of effect 20-05-2019 – This dropped from 85 to 80 points.

If the number of invitations goes up in future general skilled migration program invitations, then more occupations with 75 and 70 points are likely to be invited. 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) may also come under the Expression of Interest scheme so there will be fluctuations and variations. The new SC 491 visa replaces 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, 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 up to September 2017 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 look much better at 1,500 invitations.

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 last article 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, no invitations were issued to SC489 Family-Sponsored applicants –Please keep in mind that for the SC489 FAMILY-SPONSORED visa, the applicant needs to have scored 75 points “independently” plus the 10 points from their family-sponsor. From December 2019 onwards the new Subclass 491 Regional Family-Sponsored visa will come into effect, replacing the SC489. New legislation is expected to give 15 points (instead of 10) to these SC491 Regional Family Sponsored applicants.

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 and September 2019 invitation rounds are also available on our website.

Department of Home Affairs Invitations Round Results

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

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

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/working-in-australia/skillselect/invitation-rounds

Current round

Invitations issued on 11 October 2019

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

Visa subclass	Number
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)	1,500
Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489)	0

No invitations are being issued for Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489), due to the introduction of the Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) (subclass 491) visa on 16 November 2019.

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

11 October 2019 results

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

Visa subclass	Minimum points score	Latest date of effect
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)	80	04/06/2019 8:33pm
Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489)

Point scores and the dates of effect cut off for the pro rata occupations in the 11 October 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.

Subclass	Occupation ID	Description	Minimum points score	Latest date of effect
189	2211	Accountants	90	6/09/2019 10:29am
189	2212	Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers	85	12/04/2019 9:46am
189	2334	Electronics Engineer	80	4/06/2019 12:07pm
189	2335	Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers	80	11/12/2018 6:39pm
189	2339	Other Engineering Professionals	80	3/04/2019 6:42pm
189	2611	ICT Business and System Analysts	80	20/03/2019 6:34pm
189	2613	Software and Applications Programmers	80	9/04/2019 8:56pm
189	2631	Computer Network Professionals	80	20/05/2019 10:05am

Invitations issued during 2019-20 program year

Visa subclass	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Total
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)	1,000	100	100	1,500	2,700
Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489)	100	100	100		300
Total	1,100	200	200	1,500	3,000

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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SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Results for 11th September 2019

Emma Gallagher — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 02:21:56 +0000

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

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.

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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: The Department of Home Affairs has announced that there will be only ONE ROUND OF SKILL SELECT INVITATIONS PER MONTH. These results generally are released 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 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 October 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 (usually one month later).

Same as the last invitation round (11 August 2019) this current Round was terrible – 100 invitations instead of 1000 invitations in July 2019! 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 11th September 2019: 100 invitations in the Skilled Independent subclass 189 and 100 in the Family-Sponsored Subclass 489.

For this round, zero invitations went to applicants who have 80 points or less.

One 39 invitations went to applicants with 85 points.

Nineteen invitations were given to applicants having 90 points.

Fortyone 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). There were no invitations to persons with 75 points or 80 points either.

Occupations Analysis:

The cut-off for Skilled Independent (SC189) was 85 points, cut-off date 03-08-2019.

The cut-off for Skilled Family Sponsored (SC489) was 85 points, cut-off date 15-08-2019.

For the eighteenth round of invitations, DoHA has been inviting Accountants, Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers! For Accountants, the invitation threshold has increased to 95 points as compared to the previous round of 11 August 2019 (It had come down to 80 points in January 2019). The cut-off date is published as 05-09-2019, which means that all “Accountant” applicants with 95 points who lodged before 05-09-2019 got invited. For the Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers occupations listed above, the cut-off points-score has remained steady at 85, and the cut-off date is 03-08-2018.

Electronics Engineers did not get invited for SC189. However, Electronic Engineers who had a FAMILY SPONSOR (SC489) got invited at 85 points with the date of effect 28-05-2019. 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.

Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers were previously invited (in November 2018) at 70 points with a date of effect 04-02-2019. But new invitations stop at 95 points, with cut-off date 10-09-2019.

Other Engineering Professionals got the invitation-score raised to 95 points! The date of effect is 27-08-2019. However, Engineering Professionals who had a FAMILY SPONSOR (SC489) got invited at 85 points with a cut-off date 03-06-2018

For ICT Business and Systems Analysts – the SC189 invitation threshold has stayed at 85 points with the visa date of effect 08-07-2019. However, ICT Business and Systems Analysts who had a FAMILY SPONSOR (SC489) got invited at 90 points, with cut-off date 23-08-2019.

ICT Professionals (Software and Application Programmers) – for SC189 the pass mark is still 85 points; the cut-off date is now 03-08-2019. However, ICT Software and Application Programmers who had a FAMILY SPONSOR (SC489) got invited at 85 points, with cut-off date 05-07-2019.

ICT Professionals (Computer Network Professionals) SC189 applicants got invited at 85 points with the visa date of effect 10-07-2019 – This went up from 80 to 85 points. However, Computer Network Professionals who had a FAMILY SPONSOR (SC489) got invited at 85 points, with cut-off date 13-08-2019..

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^st July 2019 (financial year-end), I expect to see a SUBSTANTIAL increase in the number of invitations in the next few invitation rounds.

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, 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 and subsequent 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 was 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 last round of invitations (September 2019) under the subclass 189 (Skilled Independent) visa, only 100 invitations were issued, at 85 points or above. Last month (11 August 2019) the number of invitations was the same. This time, another 100 invitations were issued to SC489 Family-Sponsored applicants –at 85 points or above… so as you can see, the SC489 FAMILY-SPONSORED applicant needs to have scored 75 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 May 2019, June 2019 July 2019 and August 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 plus June 2019 invitations are a disappointing 100 invitations only. July 2019 had bounced back to 1,000 invitations. But August 2019 and September 2019 has fallen back to just 100 invitations!

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

The results in the next section have been taken from the Department of Home Affairs website: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/working-in-australia/skillselect/invitation-rounds

Current round

Invitations issued on 11 September 2019

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

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

11 September 2019 results

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

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Point scores and the dates of effect cut off for the pro-rata occupations in the 11 September 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.

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Invitations issued during 2019-20 program year

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SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Results for 11th July 2019

Emma Gallagher — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:36:54 +0000

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

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.

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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: The Department of Home Affairs has announced that there will be only ONE ROUND OF SKILL SELECT INVITATIONS PER MONTH. These results generally are released 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 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 August 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 (11 June 2019) this current Round was much better – 1,000 invitations instead of 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 11th July 2019: 1,000 invitations in the Skilled Independent SC189 subclass and 100 in the Family-Sponsored Subclass 489. My analysis is that the “quota” for the year 2018-2019 has been reset. The Department of Immigration is adjusting the figures to allow for a realistic “phased” level of invitations between July 2019 and June 2020 (financial year)

For this round, 775 invitations were to applicants who have 80 points.

One hundred thirty invitations went to applicants with 85 points.

Eighty invitations were given to applicants having 90 points.

Fifteen 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 too, but invitations re-commenced at 80 points.

Occupations Analysis:

The cut-off for Skilled Independent (SC189) was 80 points, cut-off date 13-05-2019.

The cut-off for Skilled Family Sponsored (SC489) was 85 points, cut-off date 05-01-2019.

For the sixteenth round of invitations, DoHA has re-commenced inviting Accountants, Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers! For Accountants, the invitation threshold has dropped to 85 points as compared to the previous round of 11 June 2019 (It had come down to 80 points in January 2019). The cut-off date e is published as 14-12-2018, which means that all “Accountant” applicants with 85 points who lodged before 14-12-2018 got invited. For the other occupations listed above, the cut-off points-score has also dropped to 85, and the cut-off date is 09-03-2019.

Electronics Engineers invitation threshold dropped to 80 points with the date of effect 05-05-2019. In the October 2018 invitation round, 70-point holders were also invited, 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.

Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers were previously invited (in November 2018) at 70 points with a date of effect 04-02-2019. But new invitations stop at 80 points, with cut-off date 10-05-2019.

Other Engineering Professionals got invited at 80 points with the date of effect 01-04-2019.

For ICT Professionals (Business and Systems Analysts) – the invitation threshold has dropped to 80 points with the visa date of effect 12-04-2019.

ICT Professionals (Software and Application Programmers) – the pass mark is now 80 points; the cut-off date is now 13-05-2019.

ICT Professionals (Computer Network Professionals) got invited at 80 points with the visa date of effect 13-05-2019 – this moved backwards by about 15 days.

So for most ICT professionals, there is now a 2 to 3 month waiting in the queue for their Expression of Interest to be converted into an “invite” (provided they score 80 points or more).

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^st July 2019 (financial year-end), I expect to see a SUBSTANTIAL increase in the number of invitations in the next 11 August 2019 round.

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, 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 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.

For this last round of invitations (June 2019) under the subclass 189 (Skilled Independent) visa, only 100 invitations were issued, at 85 points or above. This time (11 July 2019)the number of invitations has gone up to 1,000 which is a good sign. This tie, another 100 invitations were issued to SC489 Family-Sponsored applicants –at 80 points or above… so as you can see, the SC489 FAMILY-SPONSORED applicant needs to have scored 70 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 May 2019 and June 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 plus June 2019invitations are a disappointing 100 invitations only. July 2019 has bounced back to 1,000 invitations.

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

The results in the next section have been taken from the Department of Home Affairs website: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/working-in-australia/skillselect/invitation-rounds

Invitations issued on 11 July 2019

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

Visa subclass	Number
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)	1000
Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489)	100

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

11 July 2019 results

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

Invitation process and cut-offs

Visa subclass	Minimum points score	Latest date of effect
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)	80	13/05/2019 7:32 pm
Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489)	80	05/01/2019 12:22 pm

Point scores and the dates of effect cut off for the pro-rata occupations in the 11 July 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.

Occupation ID	Description	Minimum points score	Latest date of effect
2211	Accountants	85	14/12/2018 12:46 pm
2212	Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers	85	9/03/2019 11:46pm
2334	Electronics Engineer	80	5/05/2019 7:01pm
2335	Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers	80	10/05/2019 2:51 pm
2339	Other Engineering Professionals	80	1/04/2019 4:39 pm
2611	ICT Business and System Analysts	80	12/04/2019 11:53 pm
2613	Software and Applications Programmers	80	13/05/2019 7:10 am
2631	Computer Network Professionals	80	13/05/2019 7:32 am

Invitations issued during 2019-20 program year

Visa subclass	Jul	Total
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)	1,000	1,000
Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489)	100	100
Total	1,100	1,100

The above figures do not include invitations issued for State, and Territory Governments 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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SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Results for 11th June 2019 – End of Year Analysis

Emma Gallagher — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 11:29:35 +0000

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.

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Broad Overview:

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

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.

Visa subclass	Number
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)	100
Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489)	10

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

Visa subclass	Minimum points score	Latest date of effect
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)	85	10/06/2019 3:56pm
Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489)	90	05/06/2019 3:27pm

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.

Occupation ID	Description	Minimum points score	Latest date of effect
2211	Accountants	95	10/06/2019 10:14pm
2212	Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers	90	28/05/2019 5:08pm
2334	Electronics Engineer	90	10/06/2019 2:06pm
2335	Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers	85	20/05/2019 10:18pm
2339	Other Engineering Professionals	85	23/05/2019 4:08pm
2611	ICT Business and System Analysts	85	10/05/2019 3:16pm
2613	Software and Applications Programmers	85	7/06/2019 11:32am
2631	Computer Network Professionals	85	31/05/2019 12:32am

Invitations issued during 2018-19 program year

Visa subclass	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Total
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)	1,000	2,490	2,490	4,340	4,340	2,490	2,490	1,490	1,490	100	100	100	22,920
Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489)	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	120
Total	1,010	2,500	2,500	4,350	4,350	2,500	2,500	1,500	1,500	110	110	110	23,040

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SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Results for 9th May 2019

Emma Gallagher — Tue, 28 May 2019 07:00:46 +0000

SkillSelect EOI Invitation Round Results for 9th May 2019

The Department of Home Affairs (DoHA) has released the statistical analysis of the 9^th May 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 agent, 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.

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Broad Overview:

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 did a file-review and recommended a suitable state-nomination option. Many of them got invited for permanent residency WITHIN 2 to 3 MONTHS!

English Language Level Test (10 – 15 minutes) (Emma pls remove this link, it changes the flow of information, and I have seen ZERO results)

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 June 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 (11 April 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, 36 were to applicants who have 80 points.

Thirty-seven invitations were given to applicants having 85 points.

Twenty-seven invitations were given to persons with 90 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 either.

Occupations Analysis:

The cut-off for Skilled Independent (SC189) was 80 points, cut-off date 22-03-2019.

The cut-off for Skilled Family Sponsored (SC489) was 85 points, cut-off date 28-04-2019.

This is now the fourteenth 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 90 points as compared to the previous round of 11 March 2019 (It had come down to 80 points in January 2019). The cut-off date is published as 01-05-2019, which means that all “Accountant” applicants with 90 points! For the other occupations listed above, the cut-off points-score has gone up to 85, and the cut-off date is 28-12-2018 (in the last round of invitations this was 14-0807-2018).

Electronics Engineers got invited at 85 points with the date of effect 02-05-2019. 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.

Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers were previously invited at 70 points with a date of effect 04-02-2019. But new invitations stop at 80 points, with cut-off date 22-03-2019.

Other Engineering Professionals got invited at 80 points with the date of effect 18-01-2019.

ICT Professionals (Business and Systems Analysts) got invited at 85 points with the visa date of effect 03-05-2019.

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 80 points from 11 April 2019; the cut-off date is now 10-02-2019.

ICT Professionals (Computer Network Professionals) got invited at 80 points with the visa date of effect 20-03-2019 – this moved forward by one week.

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 70 and 65 points are likely to be invited. But I do not think that is likely to happen in the immediate future.

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.

In my earlier articles, I was hoping that the number of “invitations” rises over the next few rounds – BUT I WAS WONG. IT HAS REDUCED DRASTICALLY for this month compared to “boom” months! This is not a good sign for all occupations who are waiting at 70 points and 65 points. This may be a slowdown due to financial-year adjustments – based on the July2018-June2019 quota.

Historical Analysis:

The total number of invitations for the last financial year (July 2017 to June 2018) was 16,296.

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, the total number of EOI applicants invited for this financial year (July 2018 to May 2019) Has been 22,820 per year.

To arrive at the end-of-year figures, we use the formula (22,820 divided by 11 multiply by 12) = approx. 24,900 per year, which would still mean a small increase in Subclass 189 and Subclass 489 (Family) invitations compared to the previous financial year 2017-2018.

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.

For this latest round of invitations under the subclass 189 (Skilled Independent) visa, only 100 invitations were issued, at 80 points or above. Only ten invitations were issued to SC489 Family-Sponsored applicants –at 85 points or above… so as you can see, the SC489 FAMILY-SPONSORED applicant needs to have scored 75 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 January 2019, February 2019, March 2019 and April 2019 invitation rounds are also available on our website.

I estimate that the Nov 2017 to June 2018 rounds were only about 30-40% of the usual monthly track-record before October 2017, but 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 2018round and January 2019 has halved to 2,500 invitations. Now February 2019, March 2019 are FURTHER REDUCED to 1,500 invitations, and April 2019, 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 09 May 2019

The table below shows the number of invitations issued in the SkillSelect invitation round on 09 May 2019, as published by the Department of Home Affairs

Invitation process and cut off

Visa subclass	Minimum points score	Latest date of effect
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)	80	22/03/2019 4:31 pm
Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489)	85	28/04/2019 1:45 am

Point scores and the dates of effect cut off for the pro rata occupations in the 9 May 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.

Occupation ID	Description	Minimum points score	Latest date of effect
2211	Accountants	90	01/05/2019 6:46 am
2212	Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers	85	28/12/2018 5:43 pm
2334	Electronics Engineer	85	02/05/2019 12:44 pm
2335	Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers	80	22/03/2019 4:31 pm
2339	Other Engineering Professionals	80	18/01/2019 3:13 pm
2611	ICT Business and System Analysts	85	03/05/2019 8:13 pm
2613	Software and Applications Programmers	80	10/02/2019 3:58 pm
2631	Computer Network Professionals	80	20/03/2019 6:53 pm

Invitations issued during the 2018-19 program year

Visa subclass	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Total
Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)	1,000	2,490	2,490	4,340	4,340	2,490	2,490	1,490	1,490	100	100	22,820
Skilled Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 489)	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	110
Total	1,010	2,500	2,500	4,350	4,350	2,500	2,500	1,500	1,500	110	110	22,930

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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