189/190 actual visa grant waiting times! Over 3,000 people still waiting for a visa under NSW 190! The industries with the most approved critical-skills border entry exemptions!
In terms of current visa processing speed, state-nominated categories managed by state governments are relatively fast — for example, the group of students who received NSW pre-invitations two weeks ago have, from last weekend through this week, received their formal nominations after submitting their complete documents, and the next step is lodging the visa application. Right now, apart from engineering/ICT/accounting plus PMSOL pandemic-era critical-skills occupations, most applications are stuck at the Department of Home Affairs' visa processing stage.
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