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📙 Daily Activity Report: 19 Dec 2025
This report summarises visa grant activity and S56 requests for 19 December 2025, based on crowdsourced data from the Australian skilled migration community.
Visa Grants
| Subclass State | Location Occupation | Lodge → Grant Date | S56 Date Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 190 NSW | Offshore Construction Project Manager | 27/12/2023 → 19/12/2025 | 24/09/2025 Remedicals, PCC |
| 190 NSW | UNKNOWN Software Engineer | 30/12/2023 → 19/12/2025 | 24/09/2025 Medicals, Employment |
| 189 | Onshore Registered Nurse (NEC) | 05/12/2025 → 19/12/2025 | 15/12/2025 Medicals |
| 189 | Onshore General Practitioner | 02/12/2025 → 19/12/2025 | UNKNOWN |
S56 Trends
No new S56 requests were reported for 19 December 2025.
Invitation Activity
No invitation round data was reported for this period.
Trends and Patterns
Priority Occupation Processing: The two health occupation grants (Registered Nurse and General Practitioner) under Subclass 189 demonstrated expedited processing consistent with Ministerial Direction 105. Both applications were processed within approximately 2 weeks of lodgement, despite medical requests.
Non-Priority Processing: The two NSW Subclass 190 grants for non-priority occupations (Software Engineer and Construction Project Manager) showed significantly longer processing times of approximately 24 months from lodgement. Both cases received S56 requests in September 2025 for medicals and additional documentation, approximately 21 months after lodgement.
S56 Request Patterns: All reported grants involved some form of S56 request, predominantly for medical examinations. The non-priority occupations also received requests for employment evidence and police clearances alongside remedicals.
⚠️ Disclaimer: This blog post is an AI-generated summary of crowdsourced comments and may be refreshed as additional data becomes available. 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 visa activity. Only the Department of Home Affairs holds complete grant statistics for the day.
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Australia
TAS Processing Times and Invitations Issued updated 18/12/25.
Migration Tasmania will close from 12:00 noon, Wednesday 24 December 2025 for the Christmas / New Year holiday period and reopen Friday 2 January 2026.
Registrations of interest (ROIs) and applications for state nomination can continue to be submitted during this period, however we will not be processing applications or answering any enquiries during this time.
No invitations to apply for nomination will be issued during this period
ROIs invited to apply for nomination on 18/12/2025: Subclass 190 - 20 ROIs invited Subclass 491 - 27 ROIs invited
The lowest scores invited: Subclass 190 - 61 points (Orange pass) Subclass 491 - 30 points (Orange pass)
Number of ROIs on hand (ROIs with a status of Submitted after the invitation round has taken place): Subclass 190 - 366 ROIs Subclass 491 - 198 ROIs
Nomination places available: Subclass 190 - 858 places Subclass 491 - 553 places
Nomination applications lodged but not yet decided: Subclass 190 - 205 applications Subclass 491 - 108 applications
Invitations issued but application not yet lodged: Subclass 190 - 77 invitations Subclass 491 - 78 invitations
Oldest nomination application lodged and not yet allocated to a case officer - 18/11/2025