Received s56 Request for Further Information (RFI) from Visa Case Officer
17
Oct
2025
• 491
• 90 pts
Submitted Visa Application
Waiting for
11 months and 4 days
21
Aug
2025
• 491
• 90 pts
General Event
491 family sponsored invitation received
24
Feb
2025
NSW
• 190
• 80 pts
Submitted State Registration of Interest (ROI)
06
Dec
2024
VIC
• 190
• 80 pts
Submitted Expression of Interest (EOI)
06
Dec
2024
• 189
• 75 pts
Submitted Expression of Interest (EOI)
Expected Visa Grant
Priority
Social Worker lodged Subclass 491 on 17
Oct
2025
About this estimate:
Level 1 (priority occupations) and level 2 (onshore non-priority) each use grant samples from their own group.
Levels 3 and 4 (offshore non-priority) use a combined sample set because many past grant profiles do not say
whether the person applied alone or with a partner or family. Combining them gives us more data
for a stable estimate. Priority levels follow
Direction 122.
Direction 122 started on 19 September 2026, so these estimates currently rely on data from before the change.
We expect to need 4–6 weeks of data under the new rules, until around the end of October, for estimates
to stabilise and reflect the new processing patterns. Treat them as provisional until then.
Your grant is expected to be expedited because Social Worker is a
priority occupation under Ministerial Direction 122. This is reflected in the Expected Visa Grant dates
above.
89 lodged before you
·
64 lodged after you
· 153 tracked
total
Priority
Onshore Non-Priority
Offshore Non-Priority
Your month
Important:
This chart only includes SmartVisaGuide users actively tracking their visa profile. It is not the
complete population of Subclass 491 visa applicants.
We have prepared a detailed s56 request analysis report (~2000 words) based on an analysis of recent s56 to
grant timelines in
the SmartVisaGuide database for Subclass 491 visas.
