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📙 Daily Activity Report: 07 Oct 2026

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📙 Daily Activity Report: 06 Oct 2026

This post summarises crowdsourced visa grant, S56 and invitation comments reported for 06 Oct 2026 across Subclass 189, 190 and 491.

1. Visa Grants

2. S56 Trends

3. Invitation Activity

No invitations (preinvites, full invites or ITAs) were reported for 06 Oct 2026. Invitation dates mentioned in the comments relate to earlier days.

Disclaimer

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📙 Daily Activity Report: 05 Oct 2026

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📙 Daily Activity Report: 02 Oct 2026

This post summarises crowdsourced visa grant, S56 and invitation data shared for 02 Oct 2026 across Subclass 189, 190 and 491.

1. Visa Grants

Notes: - The 190 SA grant date is stated as 2 Sep 2026 in the comment, not 02 Oct 2026. - The 189 Carpenter's timeline lists the medicals date (20 Jun 2026) before the lodgement date (23 Jun 2026), as submitted. - The 190 WA comment lists 85 points in its header and 90 points in its timeline, as submitted. - The 190 QLD Special Needs Teacher comment lists 75 points in its header and 80 points in its timeline, as submitted. - The 189 Carpenter applied offshore following an ART outcome on a student visa refusal.

2. S56 Trends

The "s56 requests for 02 Oct 2026" comment states "To be updated" and contains no S56 data. No S56 requests were reported in the other comments (status UNKNOWN). Reported medical dates are not S56 requests.

3. Invitation Activity

No invitation data was shared for 02 Oct 2026. Invitation dates in the grant timelines are historical and are excluded.

News and Updates

None reported.

Useful Resources

None shared.

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📙 Daily Activity Report: 01 Oct 2026

This post summarises crowdsourced Subclass 189, 190 and 491 visa grant and S56 data shared in today's comments.

1. Visa Grants

2. S56 Trends

3. Invitation Activity

No invitations were issued on this specific day according to the comments.

News and Updates

No news or announcements were included in the comments.

Useful Resources

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📙 Daily Activity Report: 30 Sep 2026

This post summarises crowdsourced comments on Subclass 189, 190 and 491 visa grants, S56 requests and invitations reported for 30 Sep 2026.

1. Visa Grants

Notes: - The Veterinarian 189 grant was reported as 29 Sep. Its lodgement year is taken from the 4 Jun 2026 invitation. - Lodgement years for the Mental Health RN and Aged Care RN rows are taken from the invitation dates in the comments.

2. S56 Trends

• No S56 requests dated 30 Sep 2026 were reported.
• One Subclass 189 offshore RN Perioperative applicant reported no S56. S56 status is UNKNOWN for the Veterinarian and the South Korea RN.

3. Invitation Activity

News and Updates

No news or announcements were reported in the comments.

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📙 Daily Activity Report: 29 September 2026

This report summarises visa grants, S56 requests, and invitation activity for skilled migration subclasses 189, 190, and 491 based on crowdsourced data from the community.

Visa Grants

S56 Trends

Key Observations

Subclass 189 Grants: Multiple direct grants reported for Subclass 189 across various occupations. Agricultural Consultant (90 points, offshore) processed in approximately 9 months. Secondary School Teachers at 80-85 points received grants within 3-4 months. Medical Diagnostic Radiographer (80 points, family of 5) granted in approximately 3.5 months. Mining Engineer (85 points, onshore) received direct grant in approximately 3 months.

Subclass 190 Grants: WA 190 grants included Civil Engineering occupations and Motor Mechanic. Processing times ranged from approximately 5 months to 15 months. QLD 190 grants for Agricultural Engineer and Construction Project Manager processed in approximately 7 and 5 months respectively. NSW 190 Veterinary Nurse granted in approximately 5 months.

Subclass 491 Grants: NT 491 for Civil Engineering Technician (80 points, offshore, family with one child) granted in approximately 17 months without S56 requests.

S56 Activity: Limited S56 requests reported. WA 190 cases received requests for employment verification and remedicals (Motor Mechanic) and spouse AFP check (Civil Engineering Technician).

Processing Priority: Priority occupations (Civil Engineering, Medical Diagnostic Radiographer, Construction Project Manager) demonstrated faster processing times. Onshore applicants generally experienced quicker processing compared to offshore applicants in similar occupation categories.

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📙 Daily Activity Report: 28 Sep 2026

This post summarises crowdsourced comments on visa grants, S56 requests and invitations reported for 28 Sep 2026.

1. Visa Grants

Notes: - The Construction Project Manager (VIC 190) entry is recorded as a direct grant. - Several 189 comments give the invite date as 4 Jun 2026.

2. S56 Trends

The s56 update for 28 Sep 2026 was listed as "to be updated", with no further details.

3. Invitation Activity

No invitation round data was reported for 28 Sep 2026.

Useful Resources

No URLs were shared in the comments.

News and Updates

No news or announcements were shared in the comments.

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Number of visa applications on hand as at 30 April 2026: 189 Skilled Independent: 4,407 in Australia; 1,660 outside Australia; 6,067 total. 190 Skilled Nominated: 14,807 in Australia; 7,094 outside Australia; 21,901 total. 491 Skilled Work Regional: 12,314 in Australia; 8,211 outside Australia; 20,525 total.

These figures include primary and secondary applicants. Source: Department of Home Affairs.

📙 Daily Activity Report: 25 September 2026

This report summarises visa grants, S56 requests, and invitation activity for 25 September 2026, based on crowdsourced data from the skilled migration community.

Visa Grants

S56 Trends

No S56 requests were reported for 25 September 2026. The report indicates S56 data is to be updated.

Summary

The 25 September 2026 activity shows significant grant activity for Subclass 189 visas, predominantly for offshore applicants in priority occupations. Processing times for June 2026 lodgements ranged from approximately 3 months 16 days to 3 months 21 days. Notable occupations include Secondary School Teachers, Registered Nurses (various specialisations), and CPM occupations, with points ranging from 80 to 90.

Two Subclass 190 QLD grants were reported, with processing times of approximately 6 months for both March 2026 lodgements. One applicant noted receiving their grant while at the airport, highlighting the unpredictable timing of grant notifications.

Several applicants reported direct grants with no S56 requests, suggesting well-prepared, frontloaded applications. Family sizes varied, with one grant reported for a family of 5.

🔴 Disclaimer: This blog post is an AI summary of the comments below and may be refreshed as more comments arrive. Due to the nature of crowdsourced and AI-generated content, mistakes and discrepancies are possible. This information should be consumed with caution.

📊 This data represents crowdsourced information and is a subset of total grant activity. Only the Department of Home Affairs has complete grant data for all visa subclasses.

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📙 Daily Activity Report: 24 Sep 2026

This report summarises visa grants, S56 requests, and invitation activity for skilled migration subclasses 189, 190, and 491 based on crowdsourced data from the community.

Visa Grants

S56 Trends

News and Updates

One applicant proactively renewed their Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) on 02 March 2026 while awaiting visa processing. Another applicant updated their AFP on 18 September 2026 before Direction 122 came into effect, recognising it was outside the 12-month validity range.

Tasmania continues to demonstrate rapid processing for Gold priority applicants, with one Social Worker receiving nomination support within 4 days of ROI submission and visa grant within 14 days of visa lodgement.

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TAS Processing Times and Invitations

Data on processing times, ROIs and nomination applications ROIs invited to apply for nomination on 24/09/2026: Subclass 190 - 38 invitations - 20 Gold invitations and 18 Green invitations Subclass 491 - 24 invitations - 0 Gold invitations and 24 further invitations

The lowest scores invited: Subclass 190 - 352 points Subclass 491 - 72 points

Number of ROIs on hand (ROIs with a status of Submitted after the invitation round has taken place): Subclass 190 - 905 ROIs Subclass 491 - 593 ROIs

Nomination places available: Subclass 190 - 992 places Subclass 491 - 712 places

Nomination applications lodged but not yet decided: Subclass 190 - 41 applications Subclass 491 - 37 applications

Invitations issued but application not yet lodged: Subclass 190 - 76 invitations Subclass 491 - 63 invitations

Oldest nomination application lodged and not yet allocated to a case officer - 17/09/2026

Lowest point score required to gain nomination (at assessment): Subclass 190 - 478 points Subclass 491 - 81 points This is a rolling three-month average of the lowest point score resulting in an invitation.

Where an ROI is invited, all priority attributes claimed are verified and the information provided in the ROI and nomination application is considered to be true and correct, nomination will be approved. If one or more priority attributes are not verified, and the point score falls below the lowest score threshold, the application will be declined.

Where candidates are found to have intentionally claimed priority attributes to artificially inflate their score, the application will be declined.

Any Gold pass holder that does not meet the Gold priority attribute will be declined, regardless of their total point score.

📙 Daily Activity Report: 23 Sep 2026

This report summarises visa grants, S56 requests, and invitation activity for 23 September 2026, based on crowdsourced data from the SmartVisaGuide community.

Visa Grants

S56 Trends

Invitation Activity

No invitation round data was reported for 23 September 2026.

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📙 Daily Activity Report: 22 Sep 2026

This report summarises visa grants, S56 requests, and invitation activity for 22 September 2026, based on crowdsourced data from the Australian skilled migration community.

Visa Grants

S56 Trends

Invitation Activity

News and Updates

NSW Nomination Rules - Important Clarification: One applicant shared a critical lesson about NSW nomination rules. NSW may only nominate an applicant once. If you accept a NSW 491 nomination, you cannot later be nominated by NSW for a 190 visa, even if you receive a 190 invitation. Applicants should carefully consider their pathway before accepting any NSW nomination.

Useful Resources

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🔵 This data is crowdsourced and represents only a subset of total visa activity. Only the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) and individual states have complete data.

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📙 Daily Activity Report: 21 Sep 2026

This report summarises visa grants, S56 requests, and invitation activity for skilled migration subclasses 189, 190, and 491 based on community-shared data for 21 September 2026.

Visa Grants

S56 Trends

Key Observations

Subclass 189 Grants: Multiple direct grants reported for offshore applicants across various occupations including healthcare (RN Disability and Rehabilitation, Medical Diagnostic Radiographer), education (Secondary School Teacher), social services (Social Worker), and trades (Bricklayer, AC and Mechanical Services Plumber). Processing times ranged from approximately 10 months to 10 months for applications lodged in November 2025.

Subclass 190 Grants: NSW and SA state nominations resulted in grants with processing times ranging from approximately 8 months (TSE pathway Chef) to 16 months (Civil Engineers and Construction Project Manager). All reported 190 grants were direct grants with no S56 requests during processing. Priority occupations featured prominently including Civil Engineers, Construction Project Manager, and Computer Network and Systems Engineer.

S56 Activity: Medical examination requests were the primary S56 type reported for 20 September 2026, affecting applications lodged between April and May 2025. One QLD nomination also requested PCC alongside medicals for a family of 3.

🤝 This data represents crowdsourced information and is a subset of total visa activity. Only the Department of Home Affairs has complete grant statistics.

⚠️ Disclaimer: This blog post is an AI summary of community comments and may be refreshed as additional information becomes available. Due to the nature of crowdsourced and AI-generated content, mistakes and discrepancies are possible. This information should be consumed with caution.

Useful Resources

• NSW 190 Civil Engineer Grant Details: https://smartvisaguide.com/koalamoyt

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📣 New Visa Processing Time

New Processing time estimates based on Ministerial Direction 122 are now deployed on user profiles as well as visa subclass pages. Since Direction 122 came into effect today (19 Sep 2026), it will take a few weeks of grants for the calculations to stabilize and start reflecting the underlying trends.

Ministerial Direction 122 is now available.

The new order of visa processing (higher to lower priority) is: 1. Priority Occupations (both onshore and offshore equal priority) 2. Non-Priority Occupations (where primary applicant is onshore) 3. Non-Priority Occupations (where primary applicant is offshore AND there ARE NO other applicants) 4. Non-Priority Occupations (where primary applicant is offshore AND there ARE other applicants)

Official Notification

Processing priorities for visa applications for certain Skilled visas Visa applications for certain Skilled visas are processed according to Government policy priorities, which are outlined in Ministerial Direction 121 for temporary skilled visas and Ministerial Direction 122 for provisional and permanent skilled visas. Both Directions came into effect on 19 September 2026. From this date, Ministerial Directions 121 and 122 have replaced all processing priorities under Ministerial Direction 119.

Certain provisional and permanent Skilled visa applications are processed in the following order of priority: - Visa applications relating to Construction, Healthcare, Teaching, Agriculture, Aquaculture, Fishing, and Resources sectors, or Australia's law enforcement and defence interests. - Visa applications where the applicant was in Australia at the time they lodged their application. - Visa applications where the primary applicant was outside of Australia at the time they lodged their application and whose application is not combined with another person’s application at any time. - All other visa applications.

Visa subclasses included in this Direction: - Employer Nomination Scheme (subclass 186) visa - Regional Sponsored Migration Scheme (subclass 187) visa - Skilled Independent (subclass 189) visa - Skilled Nominated (subclass 190) visa - Permanent Residence (Skilled Regional) (subclass 191) visa - Skilled Regional (Provisional) (subclass 489) visa - Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) (subclass 491) visa - Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (Provisional) (subclass 494) visa - Skilled Regional (subclass 887) visa - Business Innovation and Investment (Permanent) (subclass 888) visa.

Official DHA Notification here Priority occupations are listed in the PDF and include construction, healthcare, teaching, agriculture, aquaculture, fishing, resources and defense sectors.

Download Direction 122 PDF.

📙 Daily Activity Report: 18 Sep 2026

This report summarises visa grants, S56 requests, and invitation activity for skilled migration subclasses 189, 190, and 491 based on community-shared data for 18 September 2026.

Visa Grants

S56 Trends

No S56 requests were reported for 18 September 2026.

News and Updates

Ministerial Direction 122 has been published, establishing processing priorities for skilled visa applications. The direction creates three processing groups: priority occupations regardless of location, onshore non-priority applicants, and offshore non-priority applicants. This framework determines the order in which visa applications are processed by the Department of Home Affairs.

One applicant noted that the offshore queue is moving but at a slower pace compared to onshore and priority occupation applications, with parallel processing occurring across different queues. The onshore/priority queue is currently processing applications from the June 2026 round.

Useful Resources

• Ministerial Direction 122 Details: https://smartvisaguide.com/posts/17615

📊 This data is crowdsourced and represents only a subset of total visa activity. Complete data is held exclusively by the Department of Home Affairs and individual states.

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DHA Media Release: Migration reform to end rorts and bring in the skills Australia needs for a strong economy

​​The Albanese Labor Government has spent the past four years delivering a more orderly, fair, and targeted migration system, while also getting Net Overseas Migration down by 47 per cent. Our focus is on attracting the skills Australia needs, supporting economic growth and productivity, and ensuring migration settings work for Australian workers and communities. Today’s Net Overseas Migration data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show our sensible and measured approach is working – with NOM falling to 292,000, down 47 per cent from the post-Covid peak in 2023. Today we are outlining the next stage of migration policies, and they are designed to deliver the Net Overseas Migration forecasts in the Budget of 245,000 in this financial year and 225,000 in 2027/28. Australia welcomes people who make a genuine contribution to our country. Australia does not support people who seek to rort or defraud the system. We’re making changes to give us more control over who arrives, who stays and who leaves.

We will do this by:

• Strengthening compliance measures to ensure people without valid visas leave the country.
• Updating Ministerial Direction 119 to ensure the skilled migration program supports priority processing for a range of key sectors, including healthcare, construction, education, law enforcement, defence, resources, agriculture, aquaculture and fishing.
• Improving the integrity of student visas by stopping visa hopping and restricting secondary applicants on most student visas
• Cracking down on rogue migration agents who knowingly support visa applications without merit Introducing a No Further Stay condition to all visitor visas to ensure they are only used by genuine visitors and not as a pathway to extending a stay in Australia.
• Updating Ministerial Direction 110 to combat hate and criminal behaviour by: ​ - better protecting children who are victims of crime
  • better protecting victims of domestic and family violence, and
  • reflecting modern Australia’s commitment to stamping out hatred.
• Changing the Working Holiday Maker Program to introduce a ballot system for years two and three where there will be a regional work requirement in support of regional Australia. The government will also stabilise processing times for Working Holiday Maker applications to three months.

We will continue to be strong on borders and maintain the integrity of our migration system, while treating people with the fairness and decency that Australians expect.

Quotes Attributable to Minister for Home Affairs, Tony Burke MP “The government supports immigration but is opposed to anyone rorting the immigration system. “Almost everyone who comes to Australia is a good guest in our country. These reforms are to ensure that our migration system can be better targeted to the current needs of Australia.

Source: https://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/TonyBurke/Pages/migration-reform-end-rorts-bring-skills-australia-needs-strong-economy.aspx

More information on Minister's speech here

DHA Minister Tony Burke Livestream link here

TAS Processing Times and Invitations

Data on processing times, ROIs and nomination applications

ROIs invited to apply for nomination on 17/09/2026: Subclass 190 - 37 invitations - 7 Gold invitations and 30 Green invitations Subclass 491 - 26 invitations - 0 Gold invitations and 26 further invitations

The lowest scores invited: Subclass 190 - 375 points Subclass 491 - 72 points

Number of ROIs on hand (ROIs with a status of Submitted after the invitation round has taken place): Subclass 190 - 880 ROIs Subclass 491 - 590 ROIs

Nomination places available: Subclass 190 - 1,000 places Subclass 491 - 713 places

Nomination applications lodged but not yet decided: Subclass 190 - 6 applications Subclass 491 - 24 applications

Invitations issued but application not yet lodged: Subclass 190 - 81 invitations Subclass 491 - 56 invitations

Oldest nomination application lodged and not yet allocated to a case officer - 15/09/2026

Lowest point score required to gain nomination (at assessment): Subclass 190 - 504 points Subclass 491 - 83 points

This is a rolling three-month average of the lowest point score resulting in an invitation.

Source: https://www.migration.tas.gov.au/news/processing_times_and_allocation_usage

📙 Daily Activity Report: 17 Sep 2026

This report summarises visa grants and S56 requests reported by the community for 17 September 2026, providing insights into processing times and trends across different visa subclasses and states.

Visa Grants

S56 Trends

Invitation Activity

No invitation round data reported for 17 September 2026.

Useful Resources

• WA 190 Grant Details: https://smartvisaguide.com/eeda

🔵 This data is crowdsourced and represents only a subset of total visa activity. Complete data is held by the Department of Home Affairs and individual states. For invitation rounds, only states have access to complete round information.

🔴 Disclaimer: This blog post is an AI-generated summary of community comments and may be updated as additional information becomes available. Due to the crowdsourced and AI-generated nature of this content, errors and discrepancies are possible. Please consume this information with appropriate caution.

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