Not really.
They may have contacted some for any PCC or medicals expired and just didn’t look back at them. Some were finalised but others were just simple left behind for no particular reason as you may have noticed some folks waiting long time haven’t even been contacted once.
They don’t have any particular case officers assigned to them. They just flagged applications on different status. Let’s say Ready for decision etc and when this is done they all fall in another bucket with a particular category as per status and then they pick them up from there.
Some were finalised, others got stuck in the middle of new policies that’s all. You may be overthinking.
They just jump to check others applications. This is something they have made evident in some of their communications. There is one available on disclosure logs, where you see how staff is being told to flag or make filters as per status and change the flags by onshore/offshore and asked to filter them by occupations as per Direction 87. So, they are all grouped. That’s how it works.
Remember that planning levels this year for this visa subclass 189 is less than half of the total backlog and this is also stretching waiting time. I got a response on this from FOI they haven’t made it available yet, but you’ll see it.
They basically said the priority occupations will be decided first and planning level is also a factor, so basically they said applications outside the priority list may keep waiting until next financial year, so when the next financial year budget is released we’ll see if policies remain the same and if there is any hope for applicants outside priority list.
