@william_prm_adler

Is it okay to live in a friend's house? I have lived in Tasmania for over 4 years, renting different places. Recently, I moved to live in the house of a local friend whom I befriended in some occasions. I have the part-time work payslips from my current job and local spending proof via bank statements, such as groceries, restaurants, and bus fares. Will it be acceptable if I am applying for the 190 visa? Feel free to ask for clarifications if there are any ambiguities.

I have received a 190 nomination from Tasmania (called "Provisional Approval" in email), telling me once state and territory allocations are released, they will confirm my nomination with the Department of Home Affairs. However, is it possible for my nomination to be affected by the new policies or points test system? I feel unlikely, but still want to ask. @gregormendel @biotechy

Can I get refused of invitation because of how I claimed my degrees?

I got a Tasmanian pre-invite and submitted my application to state nomination recently. I just realized something.

Before coming to Australia, I had a 4-year American degree. I had the first 1.5 years at one university and transferred to another university for the rest 2.5 years, and I just realized I just put the 4 years into one single university, though my courses from both universities are shown on the transcript of the university that conferred my bachelor degree.

Then in Australia, I had a non-Tasmanian master degree, yet I switched my major in the middle of the degree, yet I just raelized I just only wrote the final degree conferred, not including the degree I did not finish before switching to the new major, though I included my whole time in the non-Tasmanian university studying both the initial degree and the later degree I completed.

Then I came to Tasmania and had a 2-year full-time master degree, no switch of major, fully present in Tasmania.

I claimed to have Australian qualification(s) at bachelor or master level, because I did finish two masters in Australia, and I claim to have Tasmanian qualification, because one of my two Australian masters is from Tasmania. Can the information I provided be considered incomplete or incorrect information? What will they do? If they do something, what are my options?

Please note, from my understanding, I did not over-claim any points, since I have Tasmanian qualifications to back up my claim for Australian qualification points and regional study points, unless I got it wrong.

Can someone help me do the 190 math here?

Using the latest spreadsheet, I can see there were around 35000 on-hand cases at the start of the 2024-2025 financial year.

I can also see by the end of May, there had been roughly 25000 new applications made in the same financial year, plus about 33000 grants and a few hundreds of refusals and withdrawals.

Yet, there are around 31000 on-hand cases in total.

So, if the number of grants, refusals, and withdrawals are 8000-9000 higher than the number of 190 visa lodgements, why do we only see a 4000 decline of on-hand cases?

What did I get wrong?

Does anyone know how many 189/190 lodgements and grants are from and to priority occupation applicants, and how many non-priority occupation applicants? If not, any reasonable estimates?

Also, we have 16500 new 190 allocations for the eight States and Territories for the 2024-25 financial year, but why am I seeing a total of over 20000 lodgements for the same financial year by the end of April already? How does it make any sense? How can there be more lodgements than allocations?

And no, the 33000 number is for visa grants, not invitation allocations, which is the 16500 number, from my understanding.

Are my bank statements considered alright? A bit tricky situation here.

I share a bank account with a family member outside Australia. The family member is the account owner, and owns the first card, and I own the second card of the account. Since the two cards belong to one single account, the bank can only print bank statements showing card activities from both cards.

The transactions include "date", "description" (merchant), "currency amount (my home country)", and "last four digits", and include both English and local language for these titles. However, the names of the merchants were not translated into English, which means the bank statements show English names for my transactions and non=English names for transactions made by my family member.

The bank has produced an English letter certifying the number of the credit card I use, which can correspond to the last four digits for each transaction.

We were in a rush so we did not have the time to provide NAATI-certified translations for all these bank statements, leaving lots of non-English names on the bank statements.

We just provided the bank proof letter and a letter explaining that those non-English names do not come from my transactions, based on the letter produced by the bank.

Does it pose an issue? If so, will I have a chance to provide a translation?

When can we know the new planning levels for different visas and States and Territories for the next fiscal year?

Got a TAS 190 pre-invitation, so if I have provided the documents provided, how likely is it to get rejected at the state nomination stage? (We are NOT talking about visa application stage, but the state nomination application stage.) Additional details in the reply for context.

How likely is it for you to receive a state 190 (TAS) pre-invitation to apply for state nomination, but then get rejected at the state nomination state? I am not talking about the actual visa application stage, but the stage of state nomination application.