The Department of Home Affairs has released theSubclass 189 June 4 invitation round official report — this round issued 10,000 invitationsand confirmed thatthe next round is expected to be issued before 30 September(is expected to be held by )
, State nomination quota usage figures up to May have also been published!
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We have extracted a selection of occupations that are of most interest to applicants — the invitation scores for most occupations fall between 75 and 85 points:
Construction and engineering
Architect 85
Landscape Architect 85
Electrical Engineering Draftsperson/Technician 80
Electronics Engineer 95
Telecommunications Engineer 95
Mining Engineer (excluding Petroleum) 80
Petroleum Engineer 80
Land Economist 80
Other professional occupations
Multimedia Specialist 95
Food Technologist 85
Management Consultant 80
Solicitor 80
Statistician 90
ICT Business Analysts — check whether adding a statistician skills assessment could push your score higher, since that occupation is not being invited even at very high scores. If you work in IT, the same qualifications and experience can be assessed under a different occupation — we have multiple successful Subclass 189/190 cases to show for it!
Health and allied health
Medical Laboratory Scientist 80
Midwife 75
Occupational Therapist 75
Psychologists nec 75
Three Treasures occupations
Registered Nurses nec 75
Secondary School Teacher 75
Social Worker 75
Trades occupations
Carpenter 65
Carpenter and Joiner 65
Plumber (General) 65
Occupations confirmed as not receiving invitations this round
Early childhood teacher
University lecturer
IT 2613/2611/2631
Civil engineer, including draftsperson and technician
Electrical engineer (however, draftsperson and technician did receive invitations)
QS, accounting, auditing, and related occupations
The following shows the invitation scores for all occupations
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State nomination quota usage as at the end of May —
Subclass 190: The majority of states have used over 85% of their allocation. States with relatively more remaining quota are Queensland (248 places remaining), South Australia (186 remaining), and Western Australia (258 remaining). These three states — excluding Victoria — also approved the highest number of Subclass 190 nominations in the month of May alone.
Subclass 491: Western Australia has exhausted its full allocation. New South Wales, the ACT, Queensland, and Victoria have used almost all of theirs. South Australia and Tasmania have 1,104 and 149 places remaining respectively, both reserved for outstanding pre-invitations.
