WA State Nomination Invitations Imminent! Civil / Building / QS / Landscape and More Can Apply for the 190 Without a Job Offer — and at High Priority! State Officials: Quota Numbers Still Not Confirmed!

Last Friday, Western Australia officially released its 2023–24 financial-year policy (for the details, see “WA Releases Its 2023–24 State Nomination Policy! Construction-related occupations exempt from the job-offer requirement! Offshore invitation priority lifted — potentially more opportunities!”), and announced that it will issue the first round of pre-invitations once quotas are confirmed. This Friday is once again dominated by Western Australia — two pieces of news!

This Week’s Grants + Skills Assessment Wins! Software Engineering / Accounting — Whole Family Gets PR in 10 Months! Subclass 191 Now Moving on May Lodgements! Multiple Subclass 143 Grants!

There weren’t many Subclass 190, 189 and 491 grants this week, but there was a bit of everything: the 491-to-191 transition keeps rolling along smoothly, and on the parent side both the Subclass 143 and 870 came through. Skills assessments keep landing one after another — let’s take a look at this week’s success stories!

Six Finance Professions That Can Migrate to Australia! Leasing / Lending, Insurance Brokers, Bank Investment & Financial Advisers — What Pathways Are Open, and How Easy Is It to Be Invited?

Ask which is one of the hottest offshore skilled-migration occupations in Australia right now. Early childhood education, nursing, social work, IT? Actually, none of these — the industry most people in China are asking about right now may well be finance occupations.