Australia Invites 400 Skilled Workers in the Latest Round of SkillSelect Invitations

The Australian government’s Department of Home Affairs has announced the results of the latest round of SkillSelect invitations. https://youtu.be/DBqYlzpK-VI On October 29, 2021, DHA issued a total of 400 invitations to skilled workers through SkillSelect to Australia skilled migration candidates eligible for the subclass 189 or subclass 491 visa. This is the second round of SkillSelect invitations to be held in the 2021-2022 Program year. For Australian immigration, the 2021-22 program year will run from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. The previous SkillSelect round of invitations was held on July 26, 2021.

An Overview of the October 29 SkillSelect invitations
Visa Type	Total invitations
Skilled Independent visa [subclass 189]	200 Minimum points score – 90
Skilled Work Regional [Provisional] visa [subclass 491] – Family Sponsored	200 Minimum points score – 80

SkillSelect invitations don’t include invitations issued by the states and territories in Australia for the nominated visa subclasses. State and territory governments in Australia nominate individuals, as per their requirements, for specific points-tested skilled migration and business visas. It is the highest-ranked candidates – based on their Expression of Interest [EOI] score – that are invited to apply for the relevant visa. If profiles have equal points scores, their order of invitation will be determined by the date of effect. Here, by the “date of effect” of a SkillSelect EOI profile is implied the specific date that they reached their points score for that subclass. Simply put, profiles created earlier have precedence over those created at a later point in time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELATED Australia Skilled Immigration Points Calculator – Check your eligibility instantly! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generally, quarterly invitation rounds are held for subclass 189 and subclass 491 Australian visas. The number of invitations sent out in any particular SkillSelcet round will be as per the volume of applications being processed by the Department at that point in time. In view of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia has been holding targeted invitation rounds under SkillSelect. The Australian government is closely monitoring visas and migration to ensure that –

• they are consistent with public health measures,
• are flexible,
• don’t displace job prospects for Australians,

so that Australia might “effectively respond to the immediate and subsequent impacts of COVID-19".

Pro Rata Occupations  By a “pro rata arrangement” is implied that SkillSelect will first allocate the available places to subclass 189, and thereafter to subclass 491. If all spaces are taken up by subclass 189, no invitations will be issued for subclass 491 in that occupation.
Occupation ID	Description	Subclass
2211	Accountants	189/491
2212	Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers	189/491
2334	Electronics Engineer	189/491
2335	Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers	189 [minimum points score in October 29 round – 70]
		491
2339	Other Engineering Professionals	189/491
2611	ICT Business and System Analysts	189/491
2613	Software and Applications Programmers	189/491
2631	Computer Network Professionals	189/491

Note. The Occupation ID is as per the Unit Group under the Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations [ANZSCO], 2013, Version 1.2. The ANZSCO Code for a specific occupation is a 6-digit code.

So far, a total of 1,150 SkillSelect invitations have been issued in the 2021-2022 Program Year. On the other hand, 1,929 individuals were nominated by state and territory governments in October 2021.

State and territory nominations are issued for –

• Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190)
• Skilled Work Regional (provisional) visa (subclass 491) State and Territory Nominated
• Business Innovation and Investment (provisional) visa (subclass 188)

SkillSelect Invitations issued during 2021-22 program year  [The program year runs from July to June]
Date of Invitations	Subclass 189	Subclass 491
October 29, 2021	200	200
July 26, 2021	250	500
TOTAL	450	700

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