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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

• Civil Engineer 190 NSW Grant Profile: https://smartvisaguide.com/zanyfox7827

🔵 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.

🔴 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.

Useful Links

👨🏻‍🏫 Book IELTS 💾 FOI 🧮 Calculator 🗳️ FY2025-26 Guide to Australian PR

📗 FY2025-26 Migration Planning Levels 🔖 Frequently Asked Questions 📞 Useful phone numbers and emails 📋 Visa Application Document List 🏘️ Guide to Housing, Jobs and Community 📲 Whatsapp Groups ☎️ Book Consultation to explore your 189/190/491 Skilled Visa Options

Hi @gregormedel,

I actually requested this feature almost 2 years ago, and at that time you mentioned that it would be added in the coming days. Unfortunately, I don’t think it was ever implemented.

Could you please consider adding a Country / Nationality filter to the Smart Guide visa data?

For example, if someone wants to check processing timelines specifically for applicants from Canada, the UK, India, etc., it would be very useful to filter the data by country and then see the timelines for visas such as Subclass 189, 190 and 491.

For example:

Country: Canada → 189 processing timelines → 190 processing timelines → 491 processing timelines

Country: United Kingdom → 189 processing timelines → 190 processing timelines → 491 processing timelines

This would help users understand whether applicants from certain countries are currently experiencing different processing times instead of looking only at the overall processing data.

I think a country-wise filter combined with the existing visa subclass filters would make the Smart Guide data much more useful.

Would really appreciate it if you could finally add this feature, Gregor. Thanks!

Looks like there haven’t been any 491 grants seen so far, either onshore or offshore. Anyone have any idea when we might start seeing grants again?