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📙 Daily Activity Report: 06 Nov 2025 This report summarises visa grants, S56 requests, and invitation activity for 06 November 2025, based on crowdsourced data from the community.
Visa Grants
| Subclass State | Location Occupation | Lodge → Grant | S56 Date Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 189 ONSHORE | External Auditor | 16 Dec 2024 → 06 Nov 2025 | - |
| 190 NSW ONSHORE | Systems Analyst | 11 Jun 2024 → 06 Nov 2025 | 23 Oct 2025: Medicals |
| 190 ACT ONSHORE | ICT Project Manager | 14 Jun 2023 → 06 Nov 2025 | UNKNOWN |
| 190 NT ONSHORE | IT Related | Aug/Sep 2024 → 06 Nov 2025 | 27 Oct 2025: Medicals |
| 491 QLD ONSHORE | SBO Pathway | 24 Apr 2024 → 06 Nov 2025 | - |
| 491 VIC OFFSHORE | Primary School Teacher | 24 Apr 2025 → 06 Nov 2025 | 07 Oct 2025: Spouse Functional English, PCC, F80, F47a, BC |
| 491 NSW OFFSHORE | Software Engineer | 01 Mar 2024 → 06 Nov 2025 | 03 Nov 2025: Remedicals |
| 491 NSW OFFSHORE | Civil Engineering Technician | 07 Jul 2023 → 06 Nov 2025 | 11 Aug 2025: Remedicals, Wife Functional English |
| 491 NSW OFFSHORE | Engineering Technologist | 02 Jul 2023 → 06 Nov 2025 | 08 Aug 2025: Medicals, PCC |
| 491 NSW OFFSHORE | Construction Estimator | 20 Jul 2023 → 06 Nov 2025 | 15 Aug 2025: Remedicals |
| 491 QLD ONSHORE | Chef | 30 Jun 2023 → 06 Nov 2025 | 11 Aug 2025: Remedicals |
| 491 VIC OFFSHORE | Hospital Pharmacist | 08 Mar 2025 → 06 Nov 2025 | 14 Jul 2025: Polio Certificate, Health Undertaking; 07 Oct 2025: PCC, Remedicals |
| 491 NSW OFFSHORE | Mechanical Engineer | 30 Jun 2023 → 06 Nov 2025 | 07 Aug 2025: Medicals |
| 491 NSW OFFSHORE | Civil Engineer | 05 Jul 2023 → 06 Nov 2025 | 11 Aug 2025: PCC, Form 80, Remedicals |
| 491 NT ONSHORE | External Auditor | 11 Oct 2023 → 06 Nov 2025 | 16 Sep 2025: Remedicals |
S56 Trends
| Subclass State | Location Occupation | Lodge Date | S56 Date Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 491 OFFSHORE | NP | 29 Apr 2024 | 06 Nov 2025: Medicals |
| 491 OFFSHORE | IN | 12 Apr 2024 | 06 Nov 2025: Medicals |
| 491 OFFSHORE | SL | 08 Apr 2024 | 06 Nov 2025: Medicals |
| 491 OFFSHORE | IN | 30 Nov 2023 | 07 Oct 2025: Medicals; 06 Nov 2025: Health Undertaking Form 815 |
Invitation Activity
NSW 190 Round (06 Nov 2025)
| Occupation | Location | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Architectural Draftsperson | ONSHORE | 80 |
| Civil Engineer | ONSHORE | 100 |
| Community Worker | - | 90 |
| Construction Project Manager | ONSHORE | 80 |
| Early Childhood Teacher | ONSHORE | 95 |
| Environmental Consultant | ONSHORE | 100 |
| Food Technologist | ONSHORE | 85 |
| General Practitioner | ONSHORE | 75 |
| ICT Business Analyst | ONSHORE | 100 |
| ICT Project Manager | ONSHORE | 105 |
| Medical Diagnostic Radiographer | ONSHORE | 90 |
| Metallurgical or Materials Technician | ONSHORE | 75 |
| Mining Engineer | ONSHORE | 100 |
| Motor Mechanic | ONSHORE | 85 |
| Network Analyst | ONSHORE | 95 |
| Painter | ONSHORE | 85 |
| Psychologist NEC | ONSHORE | 90 |
| Research and Development Manager | ONSHORE | 100 |
| Registered Nurse NEC | ONSHORE | 85 |
| Software and Application Programmer NEC | ONSHORE | 95 |
| Systems Analyst | ONSHORE | 100 |
| University Lecturer | ONSHORE | 110 |
| Veterinarian | - | 95 |
TAS Preinvites (06 Nov 2025)
| Subclass | Occupation | Pathway | Pass Type | ROI Points | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 190 | Science Technician NEC | TSG | Green | 516 | ROI: 24 Oct 2025 |
| 491 | Accountant | - | Orange Plus | 105 TAS, 65 EOI | Aged Care |
| 491 | Accountant | TER | Green | 303 | ROI: 03 Nov 2025, 9+ months Accounting work |
Trends and Patterns in S56 Requests
The S56 requests on 06 November 2025 primarily involved medical examinations for offshore 491 applicants who lodged their visas between November 2023 and April 2024. One applicant received a request for Health Undertaking Form 815 in addition to remedicals. This pattern suggests DHA is actively processing offshore 491 applications from mid-2023 to early 2024.
For visa grants, S56 requests predominantly involved remedicals and PCC updates, particularly for applications lodged in 2023. Priority occupation applicants (Primary School Teacher, Hospital Pharmacist) received grants within 6-8 months despite multiple S56 requests, while non-priority occupations experienced processing times ranging from 11 months to over 2 years. The longest processing time observed was for a 491 NT External Auditor (lodged October 2023, granted November 2025).
NSW conducted a substantial 190 invitation round covering 23 occupations, all for onshore applicants with points ranging from 75 to 110 (inclusive of state nomination). Tasmania issued preinvites for both 190 and 491 pathways, targeting graduates and established residents.
⚠️ 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 a subset of total activity. Only DHA and individual states possess complete grant and invitation data. For NSW invitation rounds, this summary reflects reported invitations only; NSW holds the complete round data.
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State and Territory nominations for FY2025-26 Using interim allocations only: The number of EOIs that have received nominations from state and territory governments from 1 July 2025 to 31 October 2025.
| State / Visa subclass | 190 | 491 |
|---|---|---|
| ACT | 85 | 80 |
| NSW | 197 | 173 |
| NT | 83 | 80 |
| QLD | <5 | 24 |
| SA | 83 | 51 |
| TAS | 85 | 68 |
| VIC | 164 | 98 |
| WA | 62 | 54 |
Source: DHA Website
We should be approaching an inflection point this program year.
As noted in, our 190 backlog level has been reduced by around 4000 last program year, down to the near 35000 level.
This year, while we still do not have the State and Territory nomination quotas yet, based on what we have heard, namely the quotas will be reduced by around 22% across States and Territories, we can use 13200 as an approximate number for all 190 nominations. Then using 2 as the approximate family size, we would have no more than 26400 nominations for 190 visa this program year.
Then we will have delays due to documentation gathering and two onshore candidates applying as a couple (primary and secondary), we would have even less actual lodgements. Last program year, a total of roughly 29000 applications for 190 visa were lodged, so this program year, we can also take an educated guess that no more than 25000 applications will be lodged.
Using some very rough math, the backlog should be reduced by at least 8000 by the end of this program year and if we still have 33000 planning level for 190 visa the next program year, then the backlog would be even lower than the planning level, which means even more people will get processed within 12 months.
Regardless, a lot of us who apply for 190 this program year will get processed within 12 months even if we are not priority candidates. Hopefully this helps.