Latest Australia SkillSelect Invitation Round held on 10th January 2020

Latest Australia SkillSelect Invitation Round held on 10th January 2020

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The Department of Home Affairs, Australia has announced the results of its latest SkillSelect Invitation Round 2020 held on 10th January 2020. Generally, the DHA releases its SkillSelect invitation round on 11th day of every month to invite skilled applicants to apply for Australia PR visa via GSM program.

Similarly, in this latest invitation round held on 10th January, total 1300 invitations have been issued by the DHA to eligible candidates under two main visa categories of GSM (General Skilled Migration), i.e. Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) and Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491) – Family Sponsored.

Both the above mentioned visas follow a point based system.

Latest SkillSelect Invitation Round Details

 

Date

Visa subclass

Number of Invitations

Minimum Score Requirement

Latest date of effect

10-Jan-2020

Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)

1,000

90

2/10/2019  11:05pm

 

Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491) – Family Sponsored

300

90

16/12/2019  1:01am

 

In this draw, Australia invited 1000 candidates from Skilled Independent visa subclass 189 and 300 candidates from Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) Family Sponsored visa subclass 491. The minimum cut off score requirement for both visa subclasses was 90 points.

Pro Rata Occupations in the 10th January 2020 Invitation Round

Subclass

Occupation ID

Description

Minimum points score

Latest date of effect

189

2211

Accountants

95

23/04/2019  1:56pm

189

2212

Auditors, Company Secretaries and Corporate Treasurers

95

18/10/2019  10:51am

189

2334

Electronics Engineer

90

25/09/2019  6:35am

491

2334

Electronics Engineer

95

3/01/2020  3:10pm

189

2335

Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers

90

1/06/2019  4:20pm

189

2339

Other Engineering Professionals

90

28/08/2019  12:31pm

189

2611

ICT Business and System Analysts

90

1/09/2019  9:12am

189

2613

Software and Applications Programmers

90

2/10/2019  8:32am

491

2613

Software and Applications Programmers

90

11/12/2019  7:33pm

189

2631

Computer Network Professionals

90

30/09/2019  4:46pm

491

2631

Computer Network Professionals

90

20/11/2019  2:40pm

Due to high demand, the above occupation groups are subject to pro rata arrangements so that invitations can be issued through the year.

SkillSelect has first allocated the available places to Visa subclass 189 and then the remaining places have been allocated to Visa Subclass 491.

This was the first SkillSelect round of 2020, the last draw of 2019 was held on 11th December 2019.

 

Details of previous draws is mentioned below:

Date

Visa subclass

Number

Minimum points score

11-Dec-2019

Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)

250

95

 

Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491) – Family Sponsored

200

95

                                                                       

11-Nov-2019

Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189)

250

85

 

Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 489) – Family Sponsored

0

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