The relaxing salary requirement is in the outlook and it hasn’t taken effect yet as It’s a prospect.
This is a relatively recent paper released by treasury that maybe useful to read.
These are aspects that matters to them. I just want to provide this document that some folks are referring to. This is for whoever wants to read further on this.
They are not relaxing the salary requirement. They are making it so only three years will be required at the existing income threshold to be eligible instead of four. To be blunt, that won’t really make many more people eligible than before, unless they remove the requirement that the most recent year be one of them (because, you know, COVID-19 and rampant unemployment).
Ok …If you don’t want to use the word relax that’s fine, let’s leave it the way treasury state this new rules reduce the salary requirement.
The Government will make this clear later on as It can be read. There is no point in wasting too much time on this, however, they are certainly showing interest in them to take that pathway and this what some folks are concerned about as they have been prioritising in some new programs since last year it was the regional visa and also released a letter where they clear stated this visas were going to be processed first, and they left visa 189 last.
This is why some folks are expressing concerns about their constant change in priority that is impacting the queue of visa processing. This is why their announcement on new visas path and priority has been brought up to this forum. This is the way it can have a negative impact on us.
The new rules do not reduce the salary requirement. You’re still required to earn the same amount, just for only three years instead of four. This isn’t really useful though, because you still have to currently be resident in Australia, have arrived before 2016 but after 2001, you still have to earn more than $53,800 in the year of a global pandemic with mass unemployment, and you still have to pay $4200 which not many can. It increases net migration by… around about zero. I’m actually quite convinced it’s the “$4200” bit that interests the government, because the treasury proposal sure doesn’t mention any discounts!
More interesting will be when they finally get back to me on how they’re actually selecting applications for processing. Unfortunately, I have not heard anything since they acknowledged the request.
Yes, you’re right. We need the paper you required to have more clarity.
This is a bite on this. This is what happened last year with regional program. You know that this was first announced in April in response to Australians complaints on Melbourne and Sydney overcrowded cities in their view along with the property affordability issue given the upcoming May elections and the political turmoil, but the policy wouldn’t have started taking effect until November and then you could see from April on how visa processing slowed down dramatically.
I witnessed very closely that process and then close the date of effect of this new policy they released a set of rules for this new regional visas and they stated they were going to be priority for processing.
This refers to the document you requested. It’s called Direction 86. However, It’s not very specific in term of the criteria to select a case from the pool.
It’s also not hugely relevant to the COVID processing, which is what I’m sure we all are very interested in right now. Unless they pull the “too hard” card and refuse to answer my request (which they can do) then their response should tell us how they’re picking them now. Maybe even give us the priority order of ANZSCO codes, or better yet tell us if there is a stop on processing anything but priority applications.
That’s very true. We’re after updated policies in response to the current Covid crisis.
We gotta wait to see what they have to say.
Please let us know.
Isn’t Skillselect system is a first in first serve system? Whoever got highest point that will be invited ? But why the visa processing time takes so long ? I do not understand why some applicants will get their visa granted within few months and there are plenty of us that have been waiting for years and years…so if I got invited with 85 points in 2019 but the other applicant got Invited with 100 points in 2020. (So both of them are at the highest invitation pts correspond to the time frame) And somehow 100 Pts one got his visa granted within few months but the first one is still waiting ?
According to the freedom of information FA20/06/01210-R1 , there are 5421 (189 visa application ) cases on hand with points tested and (primary and secondary) applicants between 31/12/18 - 30/06/20. So DHA just let these cases pending ? No need to complete it?
Latest FOI for 189 points tested grants and lodgements. Promising to say the least with an average of 200 visa grants for the past few months (Covid-19 period).
So only 10% of the 5421 pending cases was granted in July 20. And from FOI 20/07/01466 said there were 544 (189 visa) granted in July 20. So the 224 granted was point tested (3% of the 5421 pending cases) and how about the other 324 (189 visa)? NZ stream?
For the ones who have been waiting for over 12 months.
Applications on hand aged between 12 to 18 months Points tested stream, primary and secondary applicants 1,208.
Interesting data to note from this one is that 497 applications pending for final assessment within this age application range as this number includes primary applicant only. Meaning working at a normal pace they could decide these cases in a month.
This is mouth watering statement. How did you conclude that? I am interested because i fall in that category. 14 months onshore applicant
Well the conclusion they could decide these cases in a month from the data shared by @Pesh. However, They may need to request medicals and PCC expired first.
I got this data on this 12 to 18 months aged applications from below link.
I have been waiting for 19 months and 14 days since I lodged my 189 in Jan 2019 offshore. But I am currently on shore, I believed my app should be classified as an offshore application. So if only 497 pending cases (189 visa) on hand between 12 to 18 months. How about those have been waiting for more than 18 months? I have been contacted by CO twice in June 19 and Oct 19, then no news until now. They made a mistake with a wrong passport number on the body check request form and also Police Check letter (my own county one). So I submitted police check (my own county one) in Dec 2019 and most of the docs have been submitted in June 19.
My agent told me that the medical check is valid for 1.5 years. And local federal police check cert only valid for a year.
Correct. The 544 for was for 189 visa as a whole, which include NZ and Points tested. So you are correct to say the 324 went to Nz 189 stream, after the release of this document which gives us only points tested stats.
There is nth we can do… waiting process is painful…
Not sure about a month. The 200 grants include primary and secondary applicants , so even if they focus on clearing the 1208 primary and secondary applicants, that would still take a-lot of time at this pace.
