Latest update on Occupation list
On 17 January 2018, the Department of Home Affairs (“DHA”) has updated its occupation lists. Applications lodged before this date will not be affected. Details are as follows:
Removed from both Medium and Long Term Strategic Skills List (MLTSSL) and Short-term Skilled Occupation List (STSOL)
- Building Associate (ANZSCO:312112)
- Hair or Beauty Salon Manager (ANZSCO: 142114)
Newly added to STSOL
- Property Manager (ANZSCO: 612112) – For regional Australia only, caveat regarding salary, business turnover, number of employee applies.
- Psychotherapist (ANZSCO: 272314)
- Real Estate Representative (ANZSCO: 612115) – For regional Australia only, caveat regarding salary, business turnover, number of employee applies.
Occupations moved from STSOL to MLTSSL
- Horse Breeder (ANZSCO: 121316) For regional Australia only, caveat regarding skilled tasks applies.
- Management Consultant (ANZSCO:224711) – caveats regarding salary, business turnover, and number of employees applies.
Source: DHA (https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/trav/work/work/2018-changes-of-eligible-skilled-occupations)
SkillSelect Update
The DHA has released the invitation rounds results up to 3 January 2017.
There were 305 invitations issued. Of which, 300 were allocated to subclass 189 visa and the remaining five were for subclass 489 applicants.
Based on our analysis, it shows that the DHA is clearing the backlog for IT related occupations and other non-pro-rata occupations, such as General Practitioners and Resident Medical officers, Registered Nurse and Other Practitioners. We can see the Software and Occupation Programmers got the most invitations (80) in this round and ICT Business and System Analysts came second (52).
In contrast, no invitation to Accountants and only 66 invitations were given to Auditors.
The table below set out the invitations of this round by occupation:
| Occupation | No. of invitation 3/1/2018 round |
2611 | ICT Business and Systems Analysts* | 97 |
2613 | Software and Applications Programmers* | 67 |
2212 | Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers* | 66 |
2339 | Other Engineering Professionals* | 18 |
2631 | Computer Network Professionals* | 10 |
2335 | Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers* | 8 |
2531 | General Practitioners and Resident Medical officers | 7 |
2544 | Registered Nurses | 6 |
2539 | Other Medical Practitioners | 3 |
2621 | Database and Systems Administrators and ICT Security Specialists | 3 |
2713 | Solicitors | 3 |
1331 | Construction Managers | 2 |
2333 | Electrical Engineers | 2 |
2334 | Electronics Engineers* | 2 |
2633 | Telecommunications Engineering Professionals | 2 |
2723 | Psychologists | 2 |
2321 | Architects and Landscape Architects | 1 |
2331 | Chemical and Materials Engineers | 1 |
2332 | Civil Engineering Professionals | 1 |
2525 | Physiotherapists | 1 |
2527 | Speech Professionals and Audiologists | 1 |
2725 | Social Workers | 1 |
3123 | Electrical Engineering Draftspersons and Technicians | 1 |
Total | 305 | |
*denotes the occupations subject to pro-rata arrangements |
State nomination statistics for subclass 190 and state requirement updates
DHA has not released the latest figures for January 2018. As such we have stated the latest (December 2017) figures here for reference:
December 2017 | From July 2017 – December 2017 | |
QLD | 86 | 571 |
NSW | 379 | 937 |
VIC | 338 | 1368 |
WA | 0 | 0 |
SA | 57 | 475 |
TAS | 26 | 228 |
ACT | 63 | 286 |
NT | 3 | 113 |
Total | 952 | 3978 |
QLD
- To align with DHA changes to occupation list, QLD has removed Building Associate from its State Occupation List as it will not be an eligible skilled occupation for all skilled visa programs from 17 January 2018.
SA
- Immigration SA announced that their High Points Category will increase from 80 to 85 points (inclusion of 5 points for state nomination)
- High Points Category can gain access to the Supplementary Skilled List (“SSL”) and occupations on the SA Nominated Occupation List which are listed as ‘Special Conditions Apply’. Applicants must meet all other South Australian state nomination requirements to qualify.
VIC
- Temporary closure for nominating engineering and building occupation has been extended. Applications will be reopened on 5 February 2018.
For details, please visit: https://liveinmelbourne.vic.gov.au/news-events/news/2017/changes-to-skilled-applications-for-engineering-and-building-occupations
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