📙 Daily Activity Report: 11 Feb 2026 This report summarises...

📙 Daily Activity Report: 11 Feb 2026

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

Visa Grants

S56 Trends

No new S56 requests were reported for 11 February 2026 beyond those already captured in the visa grants table above.

Invitation Activity

Trends and Patterns

Priority Occupations: Health and teaching occupations continue to demonstrate expedited processing. Secondary Teachers, Early Childhood Teachers, Registered Nurses, Midwives, and Occupational Therapists received grants within 1-3 months of lodgement, consistent with Ministerial Direction 105 priorities.

Non-Priority Occupations: Engineers, Carpenters, and other non-priority occupations experienced significantly longer processing times, ranging from 9 months to over 2 years. The longest processing time observed was 2 years 2 months 14 days for a QLD 190 Mechanical Engineer (offshore).

S56 Patterns: The most common S56 requests were for: - Remedicals: Frequently requested after 12-18 months from initial medicals, particularly for applications lodged in 2023-2024 - Polio Certificates: Multiple requests observed, particularly for VIC and NSW applications - Police Clearance Certificates (PCC): Requested for applications with extended processing times - Parental Consent: Required for applicants with dependent children from previous relationships - Partner Medicals: Requested separately in some cases

Direct Grants: Two SA 190 applications (Carpenter and Production/Plant Engineer) received direct grants without S56 requests, both offshore applications with processing times of 9-10 months.

Family Size Impact: Family sizes ranged from single applicants to families of 6. No clear correlation between family size and processing time was evident from this dataset.

State Processing: SA, VIC, and QLD showed active grant activity. NT and TAS grants were primarily for 491 visas with longer processing times (2+ years for applications lodged in 2023).

📊 This report represents a subset of total visa activity. Only the Department of Home Affairs has complete grant data. State nomination data is similarly incomplete, with only states holding comprehensive round information.

🔴 DISCLAIMER: This blog post is an AI-generated summary of community comments and may be refreshed as additional data becomes available. Due to the crowdsourced and AI-generated nature of this content, mistakes and discrepancies are possible. This information should be consumed with appropriate caution and verified against official sources.

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