This Week in Migration

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1. NSW’s March Subclass 190 round arrives on schedule — offshore finance, marketing, engineering and management applicants are the big winners

2. Productivity Commission report: scrap business migration, remove the occupation list for employer sponsorship, and reform the Subclass 189 points system

3. The Immigration Minister shows off the Subclass 887 grant scorecard — the backlog is halved in a single month, and grants won’t stop!

4. Tasmania’s quota usage, and Canberra issues its latest round of invitations

5. The week’s grants, invitations, skills assessments and citizenship processing wrap-up

1. NSW’s March Subclass 190 round arrives on schedule — offshore finance, marketing, engineering and management applicants are the big winners

A month on, NSW has issued another round of Subclass 190 pre-invitations. This round focused on offshore applicants, and we saw a wider range of occupations invited from offshore — most of them at the lower 65–80 point range. For example, a Marketing Specialist invited at 70/75+5, finance-related occupations invited at 75+5, a Project Administrator invited at 75+5, and Civil Engineering invited at 75+5.

Onshore applicants have good news too: Auditors remain steady at 85+5, and Accountants dropped to 95+5 for an invitation. If an Accountant needs to obtain an Auditor skills assessment through bridging study, this can be completed in as little as around 7 weeks — in time to lodge this financial year. Feel free to message us for a consultation.Engineering occupations also received plenty of invitations this round, with scores of around 80 points enough to qualify.By comparison, however, there was very little data on ICT occupations this time.

See the chart below for invitations among our clients and those gathered from external sources

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2. Productivity Commission report: scrap business migration, remove the occupation list for employer sponsorship, and reform the Subclass 189 points system

See today’s lead article for details

3. The Immigration Minister shows off the Subclass 887 grant scorecard — the backlog is halved in a single month, and grants won’t stop!

After roughly three months, the Immigration Minister is once again showing off the visa-processing scorecard. This time the focus was on the long-troublesome Subclass 887 — since February, 887 grants have been steady and fast, with applications lodged in 2020/21/22 all coming through. According to the figures, the Minister says that through roughly a month of effort the original Subclass 887 backlog of around 20,000 has already been halved! That set a record for the most Subclass 887 grants in a single month. He made clear that 887 processing will keep clearing the backlog — we wish everyone still waiting an early grant! We also hope that processing of Subclass 191 begins as soon as possible — with this lesson learnt, let’s not wait until every visa class has a backlog of 20,000–30,000 before waking up to it.

On top of this, those following visa processing will also know that processing of most visas has sped up over the first three months of 2023. The Minister noted that since Labor took office, the number of staff handling visa processing has grown by 582, and the team has approved a total of 5.5 million visas (temporary plus permanent). The mainstream skilled visa with the largest backlog right now is likely Subclass 189. Overall, Subclass 190 pre-grant processing has reached as far as September/October 2022 at the fastest, Subclass 491 has reached the first half of 2022, and while Subclass 189 is processing applications lodged in October–December last year, these are still mostly priority occupations.

4. Tasmania’s quota usage, and Canberra issues its latest round of invitations

Tasmania updated its state-nomination quota usage and processing progress this week, as at 14 March 2023. There are 731 Subclass 190 places remaining and 1,141 Subclass 491 places remaining.

The current processing position is as follows:

– Subclass 190/491 places used: 1,269 and 1,109

– Subclass 190/491 currently under assessment: 119 and 232

– Subclass 190/491 invitations not yet accepted: 200 and 244

Subclass 190 processing has reached 27 January 2023, while Subclass 491 is a little faster, reaching 3 March 2023. Over this period we have also seen Tasmania issue plenty of invitations, showing real goodwill towards onshore applicants.

Also showing goodwill is Canberra — although the official report is not yet out, from the volume we are seeing it has issued a large number of Subclass 190 invitations to onshore applicants, with plenty going through the small-business stream as well, and scores remaining very low.

5. The week’s grants, invitations, skills assessments and citizenship processing wrap-up

A wrap-up of Newstarsec’s recent grants and invitations across all categories: press and hold below to view. The page is updated continuously, so we strongly recommend you save and bookmark it!

State-nomination invitation / GTI invitation statistics

Canberra (ACT) state nomination

None this week

Victoria state nomination

No figures compiled this week

Tasmania state nomination

No figures compiled this week

NSW state nomination

No figures compiled this week

South Australia state nomination

Lodged 1 March 2023, invited for Subclass 190 on 14 March 2023, occupation: Community Worker, onshore

Lodged 6 March 2023, invited for Subclass 190 on 14 March 2023, occupation: Valuer, onshore

Queensland state nomination

No figures compiled this week

Western Australia state nomination

None this week

Northern Territory state nomination

No figures compiled this week

Business and investor / GTI invitations

No figures compiled this week

For more state-nomination and visa case studies, see:Success stories of the week | NSW Subclass 190 granted in batches! An Accountant secures employer sponsorship in a month! Subclass 491/189/190/887 grants still flowing smoothly!

This week’s grant progress and analysis

Subclass 189 Skilled Independent migration

Lodged 25 October 2022, granted 16 March 2023, occupation: Registered Nurses nec, onshore

Lodged 22 November 2022, granted 14 March 2023, Subclass 189 Early Childhood (Pre-primary School) Teacher

Lodged 25/10/2022, granted 16/03/2023, offshore, occupation: Nursing

Subclass 190 State-Nominated skilled migration

Lodged 25 June 2021, granted 17 March 2023, Subclass 190 Accountant (General)

Lodged 23 September 2022, granted 17 March 2023, Subclass 190 Mechanical Engineer

Lodged 9 September 2022, granted 14 March 2023, Subclass 190 Contract Administrator

Subclass 491 (new regional) / Subclass 489 (old regional) nominated visas

Lodged 29 June 2021, granted 16 March 2023, occupation: Marketing Specialist, onshore with spouse

Lodged 22 March 2021, granted 16 March 2023, occupation: Accountant (General), onshore with child

Lodged 11 March 2022, granted 16 March 2023, Subclass 491 Computer Network and Systems Engineer

Lodged 21 January 2022, granted 14 March 2023, Subclass 491 Architect

Subclass 887 Regional permanent residence visa (selected)

No figures compiled this week

Employer sponsorship

No figures compiled this week

Business and investor / GTI

No figures compiled this week

Subclass 600 Visitor visa

Lodged 22 February 2023, granted 15 March 2023, offshore

Lodged 16 February 2023, granted 13 March 2023, Subclass 600

Subclass 500 Student visa

Lodged 2 March 2023, granted 16 March 2023, onshore

Subclass 485 Graduate Work visa

Lodged 10 March 2023, granted 14 March 2023, onshore

Lodged 15 July 2022, granted 13 March 2023, onshore

Lodged 23 February 2023, granted 13 March 2023, onshore

Lodged 15 February 2023, granted 13 March 2023, onshore

Lodged 4 March 2023, granted 14 March 2023, onshore

Lodged 14 March 2023, granted 14 March 2023, onshore

Lodged 15 March 2023, granted 15 March 2023, onshore

Lodged 7 September 2022, granted 15 March 2023, Subclass 485

Lodged 14 March 2023, granted 14 March 2023, Subclass 485

Partner migration

No figures this week

Parent migration / visas

Lodged Subclass 870 on 11 January 2023, granted 15 March 2023, Subclass 870

Child visas

None this week

Subclass 408 visa

Lodged 21 September 2022, granted 11 March 2023, onshore, with secondary applicant

Lodged 9 March 2023, granted 15 March 2023, onshore

Lodged 9 March 2023, granted 16 March 2023, onshore

Lodged 14 March 2023, granted 16 March 2023, onshore

Lodged 9 March 2023, granted 15 March 2023, Subclass 408

Lodged 10 March 2023, granted 15 March 2023, Subclass 408

Subclass 155 visa

None this week

Citizenship applications

None this week

This week’s skills assessment processing progress

CA ANZ (accounting-related)

None this week

ACS (IT-related)

None this week

Engineers Australia (EA) (engineering)

Lodged 13 January 2023, passed 14 March, EA skills assessment, occupation: 233612 Petroleum Engineer

VETASSESS

VETASSESS skills assessment, occupation: 511112 Program or Project Administrator, lodged 4 March, passed 16 March

VETASSESS skills assessment, occupation: Research and Development Manager. Lodged: 06/03/2023. Passed: 13/03/2023

VETASSESS skills assessment, occupation: Quality Assurance Manager. Lodged: 05/03/2023. Passed: 13/03/2023

VETASSESS skills assessment, occupation: Environmental Consultant. Lodged: 04/03/2013. Passed: 14/03/2023

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Can the scores go any lower? Accounting / IT / Engineering invited for Subclass 190 at 65 points!

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NSW / Victoria / Tasmania state nominations rolling in! Subclass 491 grants keep coming!

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