This week’s grants, nomination approvals and skills assessmentshave been plentiful!Let’s run through them all in one go — from skills assessment to invitation to grant.There have been plenty of opportunities so far this financial year, but those opportunities aren’t waiting for you alone — so it pays to act quickly!

For the Department of Home Affairs’ current visa processing times, see: Department updates visa processing timeframes | Have 189/190/491 sped up or slowed down? Employer-sponsored visas remain a processing priority!

Newstarsec internal data for the week

6 March – 10 March 2023

Recently, 190/491/887 and other skilled migration categories have accelerated across the board, with high volumes — below we share just a selection of the grant letters.

Skills Assessments

Information and orgranisation professionals↓↓↓

Project Administrator↓↓↓

Financial Investment Manager ↓↓↓

Taxation Accountant skills assessment approved — lodged early February ↓↓↓

Visa Grants

Subclass 190 ↓↓↓

A Subclass 190 through the MINT programme: nominated occupation 234312 Environmental Consultant. The MINT programme began in mid-October 2021, the formal invitation came in February 2022, the Subclass 190 visa was lodged in March 2022, and the grant came through in March 2023 — congratulations to our client!

Subclass 190 processing overall is still sitting around mid-2022

Subclass 491 grants ↓↓↓

Subclass 491 wasn’t to be outdone this week either, with a whole batch of grants — overall processing has advanced to the first half of mid-2022, catching up to the pace of Subclass 190!

This week we also received the latest official figures on Subclass 491-to-191 conversions

As at the end of January 2023, there had been more than 50 lodgements, but no grants as yet. The grants over this period have all been under the HK Stream.

Subclass 189 points-tested Skilled Independent ↓↓↓

Priority occupations still dominate; there’s no timeframe for other occupations, with only the rare grant for engineering and accounting applications lodged at the end of 2022

A social worker lodged in mid-December 2022

Subclass 887 grants ↓↓↓

No sign of slowing down — grants keep rolling in!

GTI858 ↓↓↓

A family of three granted (offshore)

Subclass 143 Contributory Parent visa ↓↓↓

Lodged mid-March 2017; received a request for further documents in early December 2022; asked to pay the second instalment in early March 2023; granted a few days after payment was completed

Lodged late October 2016; received a request for further documents in early December 2022; asked to pay the second instalment in early March 2023; granted a few days after payment was completed

Lodged late October 2016; received a request for further documents in mid-October 2022; asked to pay the second instalment in December 2022; granted in early March after payment was completed

State Nominations Approved / Invited

NSW Subclass 491 formal nomination ↓↓↓

NSW Subclass 190 formal nomination ↓↓↓

Marketing Specialist, an entirely offshore applicant with 5+ years of relevant work experience — pre-invitation received mid-February, lodged late February, nomination obtained early March!

A Financial Investment Adviser on 70+5 points who received a pre-invitation on 15 February also secured nomination in early March! NSW has been genuinely strong for finance and marketing occupations this financial year!

There are still plenty of state-nomination opportunities across the states this financial year

We welcome both onshore and offshore applicants to have their occupation assessed!

VIC Subclass 190 nomination approved ↓↓↓

Nominated occupation Electronics Engineer — Victorian nomination processing has picked up again over the past week or two!

Victoria approved another engineering nomination — Engineering Professionals

Also received nomination this week — an ET occupation secured its nomination

And of course accounting featured too, with the nomination smoothly approved!

QLD Subclass 190 nominations approved ↓↓↓

One was a Mechanical Engineer on 75+5

One was a Developer Programmer on 85+5

Both had applied for priority processing earlier and received formal approval in about a month

WA nomination approved ↓↓↓

A Chemical Engineer lodged mid-December 2022 (who received a pre-invitation via the graduate stream) finally secured nomination in early March

SA pre-invitation↓↓↓

TAS nominations approved ↓↓↓

Plenty of occupations featured — Tasmania has been quietly stepping up over this period, issuing many invitations across both Subclass 491 and Subclass 190!

Northern Territory – MINT Stream↓↓↓

Formal nomination obtained — a Contract Administrator. The skills assessment was completed last September, MINT programme pre-approval came through in November, the investment payment was completed in December, and formal sponsorship was secured in early March this year!

There really are plenty of [passed] [approved] [granted] good-news stories every week now — don’t sit on the fence any longer. Get in touch with us quickly for an initial assessment — and in a few months’ time, the good news on this list could be yours!

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