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Skill Select EOI Invitation Results for April 4th, 2018
On 7th May 2018, the Department of Home Affairs has released the analysis of the 4th April 2018 “Skill Select” invitation results (Expressions of Interest – EOI) for the visa subclass 189 (Skilled Independent) and 489 (Skilled Family Sponsored). EasyMigrate’s Principal Migration Consultant Mr Cyrus Misty has reviewed these results:
“Broad Overview: Once again the Dept of Immigration (now Department of Home Affairs) has released only 305 which is the same as the invitation-rounds since November 2017! Once again, not a single “Accountant” was invited! The total number of invitations for this financial year (July to April 2018) has been 14,771 so I am hoping that in the remaining financial year (May-June 2018) it is likely that there will be some increase in the number of invitations provided by the Department of Immigration… but I am beginning to lose hope.
Why only 305 invitations at each round? Why did this start happening from November 2017? To me, the “November 2017” date has significance because Dept of Immigration takes about 8 months to process SC189 / 489-Family-Sponsored applications so it would not affect their statistics till June 2018!! But this slow-down will certainly affect their statistics in the 2018-2019 financial year. So is this a deliberate attempt to slow-down the “pipeline” in preparation for some dramatic changes to be announced in July 2018? I hope I am wrong but I expect dramatic changes will be announced in July 2018!
Once again for this latest round of invitations under the subclass 189 (Skilled Independent) visa, only 300 invitations were issued, at 70 points or above. Only five invitations were issued to SC489 Family-Sponsored applicants – 2 at 80 points and 3 at 75 points.
As I have mentioned in my previous newsletter, This is a decrease of about 2250 invitations per month compared to the October 2017 invitations, it is about 1105 invitations less than the November 2017 round. The December 2017 round, January 2017 round, February 2017 round, March 2018 round and April 2018 round. All of these have been very low with the number of invitations, with only 610 invitations per month (305 invitations x 2 invitation-rounds each month). My estimate is that the current rounds are only at about 25-30% of the usual monthly track-record before October 2017.
Please note that these figures do not include invitations under the state-nominated subclass 190 and state-nominated “Regional” subclass 489.
For this round, most invitations (190) were to applicants who have 75 points. Another 34 invitations went to persons with 80 points. 13 invitations were given to applicants having 85 points.
63 applicants were invited at 70 points. There were NO INVITES to applicants with 60 or 65 points.
As I have mentioned before – when the number of invitations are so low, then anomalies creep in – let me explain. My estimate is that about 15% of the “invitations” usually do not get taken up (because of the applicant’s changed circumstances). These “invitations” expire after 60 days and lead to a “re-invite” in the next round of invitations (maximum two invites). When the number of invitations is reduced by DIBP to a paltry 300 (instead of the usual 2000-3000 per month) then these “re-invitation” tend to skew the results and give inaccurate statistics.
For the occupations subject to pro-rata arrangements, Accountants did not get any invitations on 4th April 2018. However, “Auditors”, “Company Secretaries” and “Corporate Treasurers” got invited at 80 points, with a cut-off date of 03-02-2018. I am hoping that Department of Immigration recommences invitations for “Accountants” soon. Accountants have been excluded (or dramatically reduced) since Oct-Nov 2017 invitation-rounds!
Electronics Engineers got invited at 70 points with the date of effect 03-12-2017, so they seem to have waited ONLY FOUR MONTHS IN THE QUEUE! Unfortunately, this is only for 70 point applicants, all others lost out.
Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers got invited at 70 points with a date of effect 23-11-2017.
Other Engineering Professionals got invited at 75 points with the date of effect 21-03-2018. The new date 219-03-2018 is quite significant – waiting in the queue is down to TWO WEEKS but only for 75-point holders! As the number of “invitations” increase over the next few rounds, this is a good sign for other engineers who are waiting at 70 points and 65 points.
ICT Professionals (Business and Systems Analysts) got invited at 75 points with visa date of effect 13-02-2018.
ICT Professionals (Software and Application Programmers) got invited at 75 points with visa date of effect 13-03-2018.
ICT Professionals (Computer Network Professionals) got invited at 75 points with visa date of effect 28-03-2018.
So for ICT professionals, there is about 1 to 2 month’s waiting in the queue, but the good news is only for 75-point holders.
04 April 2018 Invitation Round
The table below (published by Department of Immigration – now renamed Depart of Home Affairs – DoHA) shows the number of invitations issued in the SkillSelect invitation round on 04 April 2018.
Invitations issued on 4 April 2018