[NSW 190 Invitation Downpour + 21 April EOI Official Bulletin!] NSW Loads Up on Popular ICT and Engineering Occupations! 189 Accounting, ICT and More See Zero Invitations All Year…

This morning, the Department of Home Affairs published the official 189 EOI invitation data for the 21 April 2021 round. This afternoon, NSW issued its May 190 invitations, in very large numbers. Let’s go through it all together today!

NSW 190 invitations

Newstars received several dozen invitations,there’s too much data to list one by one, so we’ve picked out a selection,we’ve included every invited occupation we found, along with that occupation’s minimum invited score.

Engineering-related

233211 Civil Engineer 90+5 02/02/2020

233211 Civil Engineer 90+5 23/10/2020

233211 Civil Engineer  90+5 15/02/2021

233211 Civil Engineer 90+5 26/02/2021

233512 Mechanical Engineer 95+5 22/09/2020

233999 Engineering Professionals nec 90+5points 26/2/2021

ICT-related

261111 ICT 90+5 04/02/2021

261312 ICT 90+5 28/01/2021

261312 ICT 95+5 21/04/2021

261313 ICT 90+5 11/09/2020

261313 ICT 90+5 19/02/2021

261313 ICT 90+5 10/5/2021

261313 ICT 90+5 08/10/2020

261313 ICT 90+5 15/10/2020

261313 ICT 95+5 09/04/2021

261313 ICT 95+5 13/04/2021

We didn’t see any nursing invitations this time,if youknow of other occupations, or lower-score invitations for that occupation, feel free to comment on this article and share with us!

NSW hasn’t seen an invitation downpour like this in a long time. While NSW never reveals the timing or figures of its invitation rounds in advance, in recent months it’s been issuing at least one round a month, and the last few rounds were also broad-based. So, once again,, for high-scoring ICT and engineering students in other states, NSW is now a window of opportunity!Don’t hesitate, seize the opportunity now!

Attached is the list of occupations currently sponsored under NSW 190 (updated as of 30 April 2021)

21 April 2021 official EOI bulletin

Numbers issued on 21 April 2021:

189 issued 500, and 491 Family issued 160. Both are higher than the January 2021 round.

Popular non-Go8 majors:

189 had reached the 80-point mark from July 2019 — in fact, the October round had already reachedthe 65-point mark from April 2020. So once again, a reminder that under manual invitation rounds, the Department selects which occupations to invite — even if your major is outside the popular Go8 fields,this processing speed doesn’t represent the speed for your occupation, let alone guarantee that your occupation will receive an invitation.The Department of Home Affairs’priority occupations remain healthcare-related occupations, or a very small number of occupations they consider helpful to pandemic recovery. According to a leaked internal Department communication email, this will remain the case for the rest of this financial year.

491 Family has progressed to the 65-point mark for applications submitted in March 2021 — meaning a base score (without bonus points) of just 50 was enough to be invited.

Apart from the popular Go8 fields, progression data for all other occupations is tallied together — in reality, most unpopular and popular occupations alike simply received no invitations at all.Some students want to know exactly which occupation that 65-point figure applies to,but because unpopular occupations aren’t listed individually with specific scores the way popular Go8 ones are, there’s no way to know.

Popular Go8 fields

2335 Mechanical Engineering 189 progressed to the80-point mark from July 2019(based on our own tally of invitation reports, for the 2335 group we onlysaw 233513  Production or Plant Engineer)

2339 Other Engineering 189 progressed to the90-point mark from May 2020

2339 Other Engineering Family 491 progressed to the 70-point mark from September 2020

What we collected at the time •

were 189 engineering invitations

(for reference only)

–85 points Petroleum Engineer, DOE 02/10/2019

–85 points Petroleum Engineer, DOE 05/12/2019

–85 points Petroleum Engineer, DOE 05/12/2019

–85 points Petroleum Engineer, DOE 20/01/2020

–95 points Mining Engineer ( ex Petroleum), DOE 11/12/2020

–85 points Mining Engineering (ex Petroleum), DOE 22/02/2021

–85 points Mining Engineer (ex Petroleum) , DOE 19/06/2020  

–85 points Production or Plant Engineer, DOE 18/5/2020

–85 points Production or Plant Engineer, DOE 05/5/2020

–95 points Environmental Engineer, DOE 03/08/2020

–100 points Environmental Engineer, DOE 15/12/2020

2339 showed a total financial-year invitation count of fewer than 20 in the October round (the exact number wasn’t stated),and after the January round it showed 32 — meaning that although there were invitations, a generous estimate puts the number at only around ten to twenty or so.

189 wraps up for this financial year

This financial year has now wrapped up,with a total of 6 rounds issued; partway through, the frequency changed to one round every three months, for a combined total of 1,690 189 invitations and 743 491 Family invitations

Occupations invited in the 21 April round

Comparing against the cut-off occupation invitation numbers from the January 2021 round, we can see thatthe April 2021 roundmainly invited the following occupations:

–2544 Registered Nurses issued 117(many of our nursing clients with 85-90 points didn’t receive a 189 invitation, so this occupation was likely allocated to 491 Family instead)

–2539 Other Medical Practitioner: 17

–2531 General Practitioners and Resident Medical Officers: 206

–2335 Mechanical Engineering: 73

–2339 Other Engineering: 21

–2336 Mining Engineers: 74

–2346 Medical Laboratory Scientists: 19

–2725 Social Worker : 22

Many other occupations, including 2332 Civil Engineering, 2333 Electrical Engineers, and 2334 Electronics Engineers, received no invitations this round

The financial year wrap-up means the following occupations waited an entire year for a 189 invitation for nothing:

Common popular ones include

Accounting: 0

Auditing: 0

Architects and Landscape Architects: 0

Secondary School Teachers and Early Childhood Teachers: 0

ICT occupations 2611/2613/2612/2621/2631 all at 0

2713 Solicitors 0

3513 Chefs: 0

Next financial year, 189 remains the same…

Next financial year, the 2021-22 PR quota for 189 remains at just 6,500 — still covering both the points-tested stream and New Zealand applicants. While the PR quota doesn’t directly determine how many invitations 189 issues each round, it remains the fundamental baseline. Next financial year is most likely to continue focusing mainly on healthcare and other occupations in short supply for pandemic recovery; a return to monthly invitation rounds is unlikely, and invitation numbers are unlikely to improve significantly either.

For many of the popular occupations we used to see often, the odds are now slim. How many points? How long until invited? At this point, asking these questions has lost much of its meaning — the key issue is that manual invitation rounds simply aren’t offering opportunities right now, so projections and forecasts can’t really be made.

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