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Has any offshore applicant contacted or approached DHA regarding their pending Subclass 190 application? If yes, did you receive any specific response regarding why the processing of offshore applications are not picking up or when offshore grants may resume?

Hi all,

Can someone make a FOI to ask for nb of PR grant onshore vs offshore since beginning of FY? I do not understand how there has not been even one offshore grant popping up while, the budget clearly allocates 55k spot to the offshore, going primarly to highly skilled applicants according to them.

@gregormendel, what is your opinion on the situation ?

Thank you

📙 Daily Activity Report: 23 July 2026

Today's report summarises visa grant activity for Subclass 189 and 190 visas, highlighting processing times, S56 request patterns, and trends across different states and occupations.

Visa Grants

S56 Trends

Trends and Patterns

Priority Occupation Processing: Health occupations (Registered Nurses, Medical Practitioners, Physiotherapists) continue to demonstrate expedited processing under Ministerial Direction 105. Multiple RN grants were processed in approximately 3 months, with some receiving straight grants without S56 requests. Medical Practitioner NEC received grant in just over 1 month.

Non-Priority Occupation Processing: The Civil Draftsperson application lodged in June 2025 took approximately 13 months to process, with two S56 requests (PCC and Medical). The Carpenter and Community Worker applications showed processing times of approximately 3-4 months.

S56 Request Patterns: Most grants today were straight grants with no S56 requests. Where S56s were issued, they primarily requested medicals and PCCs. One case required relationship proof documentation. The timing of S56 requests varied from immediately after lodgement to several months into processing.

State Distribution: Tasmania and WA featured prominently in today's grants, with Victoria and NSW also represented. Subclass 189 grants were distributed across multiple states, while 190 grants came from TAS, VIC, NSW, and WA.

📊 This report represents crowdsourced data and is therefore a subset of total visa activity. Only the Department of Home Affairs has complete grant data for the day.

🔴 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.

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