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This week’s overseas study news roundup – TasTAFE opens Early Childhood C3 and Diploma courses (the image caption has a typo — these are early childhood courses) – UniSQ reminder: 2026 Sem 1 key dates and holiday arrangements – University of Sydney December deadline update – UTS 2026 autumn course and timing reminder – Offer show incoming
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For the latest 189/190/491/191 grant data, see Latest skilled migration visa data! 190/491 grants up sharply, 191 clears over 12,000 in four months, and the August 189 round has an acceptance rate close to 70%! If you would like to discuss employer sponsorship | skilled migration | family migration, simply press and hold the QR code in Image 1!
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Our monthly routine update on the 189/190/491 data. Thanks to the 190Grant database, this time we have data up to the end of October 2025 (lead image) — and we have 191 data too! Source data shown in Images 2-3 A closer look Subclass 189 (Image 4) 1,439 applications were lodged — 1,696 fewer than September — so primary-applicant lodgements
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Monthly routine update on 189 190 491 data. This time we have figures through the end of October 2025, and this time we also have 191 data! Original Data Consolidated Data 189 — Lodgement volume was 1,439 — 1,696 fewer than in September, so primary-applicant lodgements from August to October total 4,631 (944+2,142+1,545)。meaning the actual acceptance rate for the August
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Queensland’s NIV state-nomination requirements were officially announced last Friday, 5 December. As a long-time favourite state for investor migrants, everyone has been watching closely to see whether QLD’s NIV would include an investment-focused stream, and what the requirements would be. After much anticipation, they are finally here! The QLD NIV state-nomination program is divided into the following five streams: –Global
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In May this year, the Department of Home Affairs held internal discussions on the reform of the Subclass 189 invitation strategy. We obtained the most recent meeting-minute document through FOI, and These reform discussions were approved before May and have applied to invitations from the 2025–26 financial year onwards; the first two rounds of this financial year have already been
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Canberra announced today that the next Matrix invitation round will be held this Thursday, 10 December，The schedule for subsequent rounds was also released — April is planned to be the final round of this financial year. Canberra is arguably the first state to publish specific state-nomination invitation dates. This provides strong certainty, so that applicants/agents/and even the state government itself
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Western Australia issues 1,800 invitations! Plenty of priority occupations invited from as low as 80 points! Western Australia had already flagged that invitations would go out in early December, and they arrived on Friday afternoon as promised! What’s more, the official report was released within an hour of the invitations being sent — very prompt. This is the second round
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This Week Highlights Australia Migration News 1. WA issues 1,800 invitations in one round; popular priority occupations invited at as low as 80 points 2. 189 round issues 10,000; estimated per-occupation invitation counts for popular occupations 3. VIC requires onshore + work; SA holds first invitation round of the financial year; TAS runs its regular weekly round 4. State nomination
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189 has today releasedthe official report for the 13 November invitation round, and by coincidence we have just completed our analysis of the November 189 EOI SkillSelect data up to end-of-month — let’s look at them together. 189 issued 10,000 invitations, and the 491 Family-Sponsored stream issued 300. The official report confirmed several points; combined with the SkillSelect data –Accounting,
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