Submit skill assessment to TRA May 2022
Received positive skill assessment 6/10/2022
PTE clear 3/1/2023
EOI submitted 3/10/2023
Received pre invite from NSW 15/12/2023
Invitation to apply 9/1/2024
Visa applied 29/2/2024
Family of 4
Waiting for
31 months and 17 days
Expected Visa Grant
Priority
Fitter (General) lodged Subclass 491 on 29
Feb
2024
About this estimate:
Level 1 (priority occupations) and level 2 (onshore non-priority) each use grant samples from their own group.
Levels 3 and 4 (offshore non-priority) use a combined sample set because many past grant profiles do not say
whether the person applied alone or with a partner or family. Combining them gives us more data
for a stable estimate. Priority levels follow
Direction 122.
Direction 122 started on 19 September 2026, so these estimates currently rely on data from before the change.
We expect to need 4β6 weeks of data under the new rules, until around the end of October, for estimates
to stabilise and reflect the new processing patterns. Treat them as provisional until then.
Fitter (General) lodged Subclass 491 on
29
Feb
2024
Your grant is expected to be expedited because Fitter (General) is a
priority occupation under Ministerial Direction 122. This is reflected in the Expected Visa Grant dates
above.
2 lodged before you
Β·
129 lodged after you
Β· 131 tracked
total
Priority
Onshore Non-Priority
Offshore Non-Priority
Your month
Important:
This chart only includes SmartVisaGuide users actively tracking their visa profile. It is not the
complete population of Subclass 491 visa applicants.
We have prepared a detailed s56 request analysis report (~2000 words) based on an analysis of recent s56 to
grant timelines in
the SmartVisaGuide database for Subclass 491 visas.
