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📙 Daily Activity Report: 15 Nov 2025

This report summarises visa grants and related activity for 15 November 2025, based on crowdsourced data from the community.

Visa Grants

Trends and Patterns

Subclass 189 Processing: All Subclass 189 grants reported today were processed in approximately 10 months and 23-26 days. These grants span various non-priority occupations including Civil Engineer, Accountant, Construction Project Manager, Statistician, Biotechnologist, ICT Business Analyst, and Chemical Engineer. Notably, all 189 grants were direct grants with no S56 requests, indicating streamlined processing for these applications. Both onshore and offshore applicants received grants with similar processing times.

Subclass 491 Processing: One Subclass 491 WA grant was reported with significantly longer processing time of approximately 21 months. This application received an S56 request for medicals and PCC on 15 October 2025, which was submitted on 22 October 2025, followed by grant on 15 November 2025.

Weekend Grant Activity: Multiple users noted that non-priority grants were issued on Saturday, 15 November 2025, which is noteworthy as visa grants typically occur on business days.

News and Updates

Non-priority occupation grants were processed and issued on Saturday, 15 November 2025, which represents unusual weekend processing activity by the Department of Home Affairs.

⚠️ 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 crowdsourced information and is a subset of total visa activity. Only the Department of Home Affairs has complete grant data for all visa subclasses.

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Recently my immi account status changed from received to initial assessment then initial to further assessment and then to received again. My question, is it normal and what this means for my case.

What are the chances of getting invite for occupation- Software and Applications Programmers nec - 261399 by QLD migration this financial year?

Meet all QLD ROI criteria:

Point- 85 Works experience- 4year onshore experience ROI Annualised Salary- 136K

Thanks