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Skillselect Invitation Rounds – October 2019

by Mark November 2, 2019, 10:32 amupdated November 2, 2019, 10:38 am 4 Comments

It is almost with a sigh of release that the Australian Immigration has ‘almost’ returned to normality with 1500 invitations to apply for an Australian skilled independent visa issued during October, This is a big increase to the 100 invitations issued during both August and September this year.

I can only hope that whatever backlog they were dealing with over the past few months has since cleared.

No invitations were issued for Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489); however, before we all panic, this is due to the introduction of the Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) (subclass 491) visa on 16 November 2019 we wrote about a month or so ago.

Australia Visa Invitations issued by points scored – October 2019

The following graph shows the points for clients who were invited to apply in the 11 October 2019 round

Australia visa invitations by point score October 2019

As the chart above suggests, the average number of points required to receive an EOI invitation was 85 points during October. Let’s take a look at the points required for some of the sought after pro-rata occupations.

Point scores for the pro-rata occupations in the October 2019 invitation round.

Due to high levels of demand, and in keeping with previous years, the below occupation groups are subject to pro-rata arrangements to ensure availability of invitations across the program year.

SkillSelect first allocates available places to Skilled – Independent visas (subclass 189) and then the remaining to Skilled – Regional (Provisional) visas.

Subclass	Occupation ID	Description	Minimum points score	Latest date of effect
189	2211	Accountants	90	6/09/2019 10:29 am
189	2212	Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers	85	12/04/2019 9:46 am
189	2334	Electronics Engineer	80	4/06/2019 12:07pm
189	2335	Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers	80	11/12/2018 6:39 pm
189	2339	Other Engineering Professionals	80	3/04/2019 6:42 pm
189	2611	ICT Business and System Analysts	80	20/03/2019 6:34 pm
189	2613	Software and Applications Programmers	80	9/04/2019 8:56pm
189	2631	Computer Network Professionals	80	20/05/2019 10:05 am

So this brings us to a total of 3000 invitations offered during the October invitation round.

Did you receive an invitation last month? We’d love to hear from you in our comments below!

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