Submitted Documents to comply with s56 Request for Further Information (RFI) from Visa Case Officer
21
Nov
2025
• 189
• 80 pts
Received s56 Request for Further Information (RFI) from Visa Case Officer
Request for Evidence of Employment (current)
Requested for additional evidence Employment letter and duty statements, Even while it was submitted earlier while lodgement already.
04
Jan
2025
• 189
• 80 pts
Submitted Visa Application
Waiting for
20 months and 17 days
07
Nov
2024
• 189
• 80 pts
Received Skillselect Invitation to Apply (ITA) Visa
Skill assessment 7 aug 2024, English test on 5 oct 2024, submitted EOI on 10th oct 2024, received ITA on 7th Nov 2024,189 lodged on 4 January 25 & waiting for grant
10
Oct
2024
• 189
• 80 pts
Updated Expression of Interest (EOI)
Expected Visa Grant
Priority
Civil Engineering Technician lodged Subclass 189 on 04
Jan
2025
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 4–6 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.
Civil Engineering Technician lodged Subclass 189 on
04
Jan
2025
Your grant is expected to be expedited because Civil Engineering Technician is a
priority occupation under Ministerial Direction 122. This is reflected in the Expected Visa Grant dates
above.
9 lodged before you
·
80 lodged after you
· 89 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 189 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 189 visas.
