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Tasmanian Update 15 May 2025 Registrations of Interest restrictions for remainder 2024-25 program year: With demand for nomination now exceeding the remaining places available for the Tasmanian Skilled Migration State Nomination Program, from 5:00 pm Monday, 19 May 2025, Registrations of Interest (ROIs) will only be accepted from candidates who are allocated a Gold Pass.
The Gold Pass category – which applies to candidates who have a skills assessment and eligible employment related to a critical role – will then close at 5:00pm Monday, 16 June 2025, with no further ROIs accepted for the remainder of the 2024-25 program year.
Migration Tasmania will resume accepting ROIs from all eligible candidates when the 2025-26 program commences. Further information regarding the 2025-26 program will be published on the Migration Tasmania website and in our newsletter when it becomes available.
Migration Tasmania will continue to assess applications for nomination that have been lodged but not yet decided. However, with few nomination places remaining, not all applicants will be nominated this program year.
Once all nomination places are used, any applications approved will be nominated after Tasmania receives its nomination allocation for the 2025-26 program year.
ROIs that are not invited to apply for nomination before the end of the program will continue to be held in the Application Gateway and considered for an invitation to apply for nomination when the 2025-26 program opens.
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Planning Levels
Migration Planning Levels refers to the total number of migration places i.e. the TOTAL NUMBER OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY VISA GRANTS planned for the Financial Year (FY). Each grant consumes one place from the planning level. The place is consumed when visa is granted, regardless of when the visa was lodged, lodgement could be in the same FY, or the previous FY or anytime in the past.
For example: FY2023-24 Subclass 190 planning level is 30,400 places. If a family of 3 (husband, wife and child) gets a 190 grant today, it will consume 3 places from the planning level, leaving (30,400 - 3) = 30, 397 places.
Therefore, the total number of visa grants for subclass 189, 190 and 491, in any FY, is generally limited by the planning levels for that FY.
Note: The planning level is not the same thing as State Nomination Allocation (which is discussed further).
State Nomination Allocation
State Nomination allocation refers to the TOTAL NUMBER OF PRIMARY APPLICANTS a state can nominate (for Subclass 190 and 491) in the FY. State Nomination refers to a Full Invite, not a preinvite. Each FY, DHA will allocate a certain number of state nomination places to each state. The state nomination allocation is generally in sync with FY planning levels.
For example: For FY2023-24, total Subclass 190 state nomination allocation is 10, 300 and Subclass 491 allocation is 6400, which is distributed between states and territories.
A Full 190 or 491 Invite means the state will nominate the applicant in SkillSelect and the applicant will receive an Invitation to Apply Visa (ITA). Each time a state nominates an applicant, it will consume one place from its state nomination allocation. The applicant will then lodge the visa and the visa application may contain more than one applicant (primary + secondary). This means, whenever the visa is granted, the grant will now consume places (equal to number of applicants in visa application) from the planning level of the FY in which the grant takes place.
For example: For FY2023-24, VIC has a Subclass 190 State Nomination of 2700 places. Let's say VIC issues a full invite to an applicant, and the applicant has a skilled partner. After issuing full invite VIC will have 2700 - 1 = 2699 nomination places left. The applicant will now lodge the 190 visa and include the skilled partner in the visa application. Whenever the visa gets granted, it will consume 2 places (1 primary + 1 partner) from the planning level of the FY in which the grant takes place.
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TAS Update 12 May 2025 Processing times: The oldest nomination application which has not been allocated for processing was lodged on 17 April 2025.
Nominations, applications and Registrations of Interest (ROI) Skilled Nominated (subclass 190) visa: - Nominations – 1762 of 2100 places used - Nomination applications lodged but not decided – 118 - Invitations to apply for nomination issued but not yet accepted – 124 - ROIs on hand - 290
Skilled Work Regional (subclass 491) visa: - Nominations – 666 of 760 places used - Nomination applications lodged but not decided – 50 - Invitations to apply for nomination issued but not yet accepted – 83 - ROIs on hand - 247 Candidates with at least one Orange-Plus attribute will be issued an Orange pass. However, they will be noted internally by Migration Tasmania as a high priority and are highly likely to receive an invitation to apply for nomination within six months. The higher the number of Orange-Plus attributes a candidate attains, the sooner an invitation will be issued.
All subclass 190 candidates with at least one Orange-Plus attribute will be invited to apply for nomination this program year.
Employment must be skilled to claim Orange-Plus attributes.
Processing arrangements for end of 2024-25 program year With almost 90 per cent of nomination places either used or offered, restrictions may be placed on submission of further ROIs in the coming weeks.
Once all nomination places are used, applications for nomination will still be able to be lodged and Migration Tasmania will continue to assess any applications that have not yet been decided. However any applications that are approved will be nominated after Tasmania receives its nomination allocation for the 2025-26 program year.
Further information will be published on this website and in our newsletter when it becomes available.
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📙 Daily Activity Report: 09 May 2025 👨🏻💻 Data will be entered into our database at end of day. 📮 Older Posts | 💾 FOI Data | 🗂️ Reports 🗳️ FY2025-26 Guide to Australian Permanent Residency
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📙 Daily Activity Report: 08 May 2025 👨🏻💻 Data will be entered into our database at end of day. 📮 Older Posts | 💾 FOI Data | 🗂️ Reports 🗳️ FY2025-26 Guide to Australian Permanent Residency
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📙 Daily Activity Report: 07 May 2025 👨🏻💻 Data will be entered into our database at end of day. 📮 Older Posts | 💾 FOI Data | 🗂️ Reports 🗳️ FY2025-26 Guide to Australian Permanent Residency
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📙 Daily Activity Report: 06 May 2025 👨🏻💻 Data will be entered into our database at end of day. 📮 Older Posts | 💾 FOI Data | 🗂️ Reports 🗳️ FY2025-26 Guide to Australian Permanent Residency
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TAS update 5 May 2025 Processing times: The oldest nomination application which has not been allocated for processing was lodged on 11 April 2025.
Nominations, applications and Registrations of Interest (ROI) Skilled Nominated (subclass 190) visa: - Nominations – 1703 of 2100 places used - Nomination applications lodged but not decided – 98 - Invitations to apply for nomination issued but not yet accepted – 100 - ROIs on hand - 326
Skilled Work Regional (subclass 491) visa: - Nominations – 636 of 760 places used - Nomination applications lodged but not decided – 62 - Invitations to apply for nomination issued but not yet accepted – 29 - ROIs on hand - 292 Candidates with at least one Orange-Plus attribute will be issued an Orange pass. However, they will be noted internally by Migration Tasmania as a high priority and are highly likely to receive an invitation to apply for nomination within six months. The higher the number of Orange-Plus attributes a candidate attains, the sooner an invitation will be issued.
All subclass 190 candidates with at least one Orange-Plus attribute will be invited to apply for nomination this program year.
Employment must be skilled to claim Orange-Plus attributes.
Processing arrangements for end of 2024-25 program year With almost 90 per cent of nomination places either used or offered, restrictions may be placed on submission of further ROIs in the coming weeks.
Once all nomination places are used, applications for nomination will still be able to be lodged and Migration Tasmania will continue to assess any applications that have not yet been decided. However any applications that are approved will be nominated after Tasmania receives its nomination allocation for the 2025-26 program year.
Further information will be published on this website and in our newsletter when it becomes available.
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📙 Daily Activity Report: 01 May 2025 👨🏻💻 Data will be entered into our database at the end of day. 📮 Older Posts | 💾 FOI Data | 🗂️ Reports 🗳️ FY2025-26 Guide to Australian Permanent Residency
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📙 Daily Activity Report: 30 Apr 2025 👨🏻💻 Data will be entered into our database at the end of day. 📮 Older Posts | 💾 FOI Data | 🗂️ Reports 🗳️ FY2025-26 Guide to Australian Permanent Residency
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TAS Processing arrangements for end of FY2024-25 With almost 90 per cent of nomination places either used or offered, restrictions may be placed on submission of further ROIs in the coming weeks.
Once all nomination places are used, applications for nomination will still be able to be lodged and Migration Tasmania will continue to assess any applications that have not yet been decided. However any applications that are approved will be nominated after Tasmania receives its nomination allocation for the 2025-26 program year.
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📙 Daily Activity Report: 29 Apr 2025 👨🏻💻 Data will be entered into our database at the end of day. 📮 Older Posts | 💾 FOI Data | 🗂️ Reports 🗳️ FY2025-26 Guide to Australian Permanent Residency
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TAS Update 28 April 2025 Processing times: The oldest nomination application which has not been allocated for processing was lodged on 28 March 2025.
Nominations, applications and Registrations of Interest (ROI) Skilled Nominated (subclass 190) visa: - Nominations – 1654 of 2100 places used - Nomination applications lodged but not decided – 125 - Invitations to apply for nomination issued but not yet accepted – 49 - Registrations of interest on hand - 338
Skilled Work Regional (subclass 491) visa: - Nominations – 610 of 760 places used - Nomination applications lodged but not decided – 72 - Invitations to apply for nomination issued but not yet accepted – 25 - Registrations of interest on hand - 282 Candidates with at least one Orange-Plus attribute will be issued an Orange pass. However, they will be noted internally by Migration Tasmania as a high priority and are highly likely to receive an invitation to apply for nomination within six months. The higher the number of Orange-Plus attributes a candidate attains, the sooner an invitation will be issued.
All subclass 190 candidates with at least one Orange-Plus attribute will be invited to apply for nomination this program year.
Employment must be skilled to claim Orange-Plus attributes.
📙 Daily Activity Report: 28 Apr 2025 👨🏻💻 Data will be entered into our database at the end of day. 📮 Older Posts | 💾 FOI Data | 🗂️ Reports 🗳️ FY2025-26 Guide to Australian Permanent Residency
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Note on Subclass 190 Subclass 190 case load from July to October is small in proportion to June 2023, OR Nov 2023 onwards.
July/Aug/Sep/Oct are one months each, but they should not be viewed in terms of months because the pipeline should be viewed in terms of cases, not days/months.
So if you have lodged in July 2023, and your friend has lodged in Nov 2023, you are not 4 months part. You are practically 1 months apart if we consider that sum of caseload from July-October is roughly equal to one decent month.
COs dont process dates, they process cases.
What dates are being processed, is simply an outcome of cases getting processed. So the distribution of cases over months is what matters.
To summarise, in terms of case pipeline, June 2023 is much closer to Nov 2023 than it looks.
Now, if DHA processes July-October actively (instead of Nov 2023 onwards), then processing time will look higher, and we are approaching end of FY where these numbers might be reported somewhere / part of KPIs etc.
So, it might just make rational sense to let July-Oct wait a bit, and start processing Nov 2023 onwards (which is what DHA is doing).
Overall, July/Aug/Sep/October 2023 applicants shoudnt be surprised if they all start getting grants in rapid succession, or even at same/similar times.
P.S. Chart below is SmartVisaGuide users waiting for 190 grants. The sample size is lower than DHA (which has ALL applicants), but the sample size is large enough to give a lodgement pattern which (I know from past analysis) is very close to actual DHA lodgement pattern.
