Processing Times for Australian Visas.
The Australian Immigration department produce Visa Processing Times on a monthly basis.
These times normally comprise two figures, such as 15 – 21 months, and many people have been assuming that it means that the processing time for that particular visa will take between 15 and 21 months.
However, it does NOT mean that; although 15% of that visa class did take between 15 and 21 months for the month prior to the figure being released.
Note: These figures are taken from the previous Months actual processing.
It actually means that 75% (75 out of every 100) grants in the previous month, were processed in UNDER 15 months, and 10% (10 out of every 100) grants in the previous month, were processed in OVER 21 months.
Two examples to show how these ’15-21 months’ processing time figures could be created:
Example ONE, Visa Processing Time 15-21 months
- 25 Visas were processed in 12 months
- 25 Visas were processed in 13 months
- 25 Visas were processed in 15 months
- 10 Visas were processed in 16 months
- 5 Visas were processed in 21 months
- 10 Visas were processed in 22 months
The median average for that example, of 15-21 months, was 13 months, ie: Half took under 13 months, yet the times took between 12 months and 22 months.
Example TWO, Visa Processing Time 15-21 months
- 25 Visas were processed in 5 months
- 25 Visas were processed in 6 months
- 25 Visas were processed in 7 months
- 1 visa was processed in 15 months
- 9 Visas were processed in 16 months
- 5 Visas were processed in 21 months
- 10 Visas were processed in 28 months
The median average for that example, of 15-21 months, was 6 months, ie: Half took under 6 months, yet the times took between 5 months and 28 months.
I personally feel that the Immigration department should produce a different time frame range, such as:
- [12-13-15-21) ie: 25% took under 12 months, 50% under 13 months, 75% under 15 months and 90% under 21 months, and
- [5-6-7-21] ie: 25% took under 5 months, 50% under 6 months, 75% under 7 months and 90% under 21 months.
Those would give a better indication of the two examples that I created above, much more descriptive than the 15-21 system that they use.
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