@william_prm_adler

When will they start processing this year's 190 lodgements?

I have been tracking 190 grant database here for a while, and I have been seeing grants for 190 applications lodged from July 2023 to June 2024, especially July 2023 to December 2023, in the last month or so.

In contrast, as of 30 September 2025, based on the data provided by FOI requests, only 5 out of the 1610 cases lodged by 30 September 2025 in this program year have been processed.

I have also note seen 190 visa grants for those applied during the current program year in our database here either.

So, when will they start processing this year's 190 applications? Seems very different from the last program year, where they almost immediately started processing current cases.

Should I take a one-year study in nursing, carpentry, social work, or teaching?

I just lodged my 190 visa application, but due to the long processing time for non-priority occupations, I wonder if it would be a good idea to take a one-year study, then wait for 189 invitation, then lodge a 189 visa application.

(Note: This post is pure rage bait, but please engage my bait. Thank you.)

Just a general question: when applying for 190 visa (not for nomination, but the actual visa), what are some of the most common mistakes to avoid?

How is the processing time for various visas calculated? Yes, I know it is based on the average between visa lodgements and visa decisions, whether grant, refusal, or withdrawal. But which batches of visa decisions? The decisions last 4 weeks? The decisions last 3 months? Or what? Also, do they use the simple average, some kind of weighted average, some kind of exponential average, or what?

We should be approaching an inflection point this program year.

As noted in, our 190 backlog level has been reduced by around 4000 last program year, down to the near 35000 level.

This year, while we still do not have the State and Territory nomination quotas yet, based on what we have heard, namely the quotas will be reduced by around 22% across States and Territories, we can use 13200 as an approximate number for all 190 nominations. Then using 2 as the approximate family size, we would have no more than 26400 nominations for 190 visa this program year.

Then we will have delays due to documentation gathering and two onshore candidates applying as a couple (primary and secondary), we would have even less actual lodgements. Last program year, a total of roughly 29000 applications for 190 visa were lodged, so this program year, we can also take an educated guess that no more than 25000 applications will be lodged.

Using some very rough math, the backlog should be reduced by at least 8000 by the end of this program year and if we still have 33000 planning level for 190 visa the next program year, then the backlog would be even lower than the planning level, which means even more people will get processed within 12 months.

Regardless, a lot of us who apply for 190 this program year will get processed within 12 months even if we are not priority candidates. Hopefully this helps.

Where's our live chat? Is it gone? @gregormendel @biotechy

I got my PTE score near the end of February 2023, with 90 for all four subjects. What worries me is that they continue dragging things out to the point of no state and territory nomination even late in February 2026, then my PTE score would have expired.

For your information, I have received an email from the Tasmanian government saying they have granted a provisional application for my nomination application, and they will nominate me once they get the quota. The 85 interim slots they got for 190 have been used up for applicants whose visas are expiring sooner than mine.

So I have two questions:

(1) With my English capability, how much time should I spend to be able to get superior English again, namely equivalent to IELTS 8 for all four subjects?

(2) If I somehow bomb my tests and just keep getting equivalent of IELTS 7, will it invalidate my nomination?

Should I be safe for my situation? I submitted my TAS 190 application last fiscal year and got an email noticing me of a provisional nomination in July, which is three months ago. My TAS 190 application went via the skilled graduate pathway. I just saw changes on TAS 190 rules, but I think since (1) I applied via the skilled graduate pathway, which has not changed in priority attributes, and (2) they have already said I have received a TAS provisional nomination, I should be safe here? Hopefully nothing will go wrong on me.

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.