Now this word “received” giving us irritation …
Visa Grant Delay 189
Got this reply today from nick. Feels like waiting is the only option left now for expired bvb holders…
lets see what will happen now… any CO contacts??
Just one reported yesterday. Applied May 2018 business analyst offshore.
Found out that it is May 2019 infact. We dont have any applicants form May 2018. I’m an admin for a 189 Visa Wait Whatsapp group and the oldest we have here is from September 2018.
Now Immitracker is rubbing it in for us 
Can’t update our cases if the lodgement date is older than 3 yrs
Any news on visa processing??
We have close to 10-12 CO contacts in the last 2 weeks for 261313 old timers. from 2018 till Apr 2019 Mostly Medicals, PCC and Form 80s. People are currently in the process of getting everything ready. We should hear something in the next 2 weeks to 28 days as that is generally the turnaround time for Co Contacts.
Any new CO contacts for other occupation codes ??..
Not really ! random one or two but this CO contacts spur has been driven by the growing demand for 261313 code from all the IT organizations in Aus is what we are guessing. Severe shortage of skills
Demand is already there as due to this PMSOL list was formed in 2020.
But they didnt quite follow that PMSOL for offshore before.offshore 189 was the last in priority. Now that they dont have the required skills onshore they are looking outside. That is the only difference
Any CO contacts for 190 subclass??
No Idea ! we are a 189 exclusive group.
what is the future scenario of processing of visas…do you discussed with your agents??
No one knows anything. The only trend we have seen in the last 2 yrs for offshore was this sudden unexpected spur of CO contacts. Will just have to wait and see how many of those get converted into Grants. Hopefully all !
Most of the people waiting offshore are from 261313 category almost 1/3 as last time I lodged a foi dated November 2021 in which 185/827 were on 261313. My occupation is 261313 as well. That’s why you see more co contacts and grants for this category.
It could be possible that there could be more than 50 CO contacts but we only reported 10 contacts…
We have other codes from 2018 who haven’t heard anything for close to 2-3 yrs now. 261313 except 1 or 2 everyone else till Apr May 2019 have received CO contacts recently in the last 2-3 weeks. so definitely it is a job code related drive
Yea many people are privacy conservative so they don’t report the co contacts.
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