Australian Education and Migration Services

11 Mar 2015

Skill Select Invitations to apply to migrate – Round Feb 2015 Results

The automated invitation round for Skill Select in March 2015 was successfully completed. The table below lists the number of invitations issued:

Visa subclass
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Total
Skilled - Independent (subclass 189)
2500
2547
2430
2800
1983
2770
2400
19930
Skilled – Regional Provisional (subclass 489)
110
100
100
100
200
200
700
1530
Total
2610
2647
2530
2900
2183
2970
3100
21460

The above automated invitation rounds do not include invitations issued under the state and territory government nominated subclasses. Separate results for these visa subclasses are provided monthly

The following information shows the points claimed by clients who were invited to apply in the 13 Feb 2015 and 27 Feb 2015 rounds:

Points claimed by clients who were invited to apply on 13 Feb

Points
60
65
70
75
80
85
90
189 (Number of invitations)
≈450
≈550
≈150
≈75
<10
<5
0
489(Number of invitations)
>200
>250
<20
<5
0
0
0

Points claimed by clients who were invited to apply on 27 Feb

Points
60
65
70
75
80
85
90
189 (Number of invitations)
>600
>400
≈100
≈50
≈5
<5
0
489(Number of invitations)
>50
>100
≈15
≈5
0
0
0

Points

13 Feb 2015

Visa Subclass
Points
Visa date of effect
189 Visa
60
29 January 2015 9:51pm
489 Visa
60
23 April 2014 11:56am

27 Feb 2015

Visa Subclass
Points
Visa date of effect
189 Visa
60
8 February 2015 7:31pm
489 Visa
60
17 June 2014 2:43pm

If you want to compare your Expression of Interest against the outcomes of the invitation round, you can check your points score and visa date of effect at any time for all visa subclass covered by your Expression of Interest on the home page of your Skill Select Expression of Interest.

Invitation points changes for six occupations Group and Nominations by State and Territory Governments

Due to the continuing high numbers of EOIs received for the below occupations, invitations for some occupations (ICT Business and Systems Analysts, Accountants, Software and Applications Programmers) will be issued on a pro rata basis in each twice monthly invitation round over the 2014-15 programme year. These arrangements are subject to change throughout the programme year. Please also note that SkillSelect first allocates available places to Skilled – Independent (Subclass 189) visas and then remaining to Skilled – Regional (Subclass 489) (Provisional – Family Sponsored) visas. If all places are taken up by Subclass 189 visas then there will be no invitations issued for Subclass 489 visas in these occupations:

The points scores and the visa dates of effect cut-offs for the occupations in 27 Feb 2015 invitation round is as follows:

Occupation ID
Description
Points score
Visa date of effect
2211
Accountants
60
8 February 2015 3:18pm
2611
ICT Business and System Analysts
60
8 February 2015 1:44am
2613
Software and Applications Programmers
60
8 February 2015 4:35am

Please note that ICT Business and Systems Analysts has reached the occupation ceiling for this financial year and no further invitations will be issued for the year 2014-2015.

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