subclass 309 Visa Processing Times in 2019

Partner Offshore Provisional Visa (subclass 309) Processing Times in 2019.

These are the official times quoted by Australian Immigration, for the visas finalised in each month, for 2019.

More recent data is at: 309 Processing times in 2020

They show the maximum time that it took for the fastest 75%, … Read the rest

subclass 100 Visa Processing Times in 2019

Partner Offshore Permanent visa (subclass 100) Processing Times in 2019.

These are the official times quoted by Australian Immigration, for the visas finalised in each month of 2019.

More recent data is at: 100 Processing times in 2020

They show the maximum time that it took for the fastest 75%, … Read the rest

Australia Day 2020 Citizenship Conferrals

26th January 2020 Australian Citizenship Conferrals.

27,419 Australian Permanent residents became Australian Citizens on Australia Day, 26th January 2020.

The top five countries of Nationality becoming Australian Citizens were:

5,053 United Kingdom
4,031 India
2,175 China
1,531 Philippines
1,000 South Africa

followed by:

886 Vietnam
847 Pakistan
814 Afghanistan
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Australian Citizenship Queue January 2020

Australian Citizenship Queue.

Numbers waiting for Australian citizenship by conferral.

The numbers of people waiting for their Australian Citizenship Grant has been reducing quickly over the last couple of years.

From almost a quarter of a million waiting at 30th June 2018, down to about 100,000 by the end of … Read the rest

Citizenship Grant Processing Times 2019

Processing Times for Australian Citizenship Grants in 2019.

This is a selection of some known processing times for Australian Citizenship by Conferral Grants, with Ceremonies held in 2019 and the beginning of 2020.

    • Applied in Dec 2017 with Ceremony in Jan 2019 after 13 months.
    • Applied in Oct 2017 with
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December 2019 Skilled Invitation Round subclass 189

Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) Invitation Round December 2019.

The number of invitations issued in the SkillSelect invitation round on 11 December 2019 was:

250 for the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) and
200 for the Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491) – Family Sponsored.

Skilled Independent visa (subclass

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PMV to 801 Grants in 2019

Processing Times for subclass 801 Grants via PMV 300 Route.

The following processing times are examples of subclass 801 grants, where the applicant began the process with a PMV subclass 300 visa, and received the 801 Permanent Resident visa grant in 2019.

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Does a Permanent Resident of Australia need a Foreign Passport?

Do Australian PR’s need to Renew their Foreign Passports?.

The question seems self explanatory,  as most people assume that they need to have a valid passport while in a foreign country.

But do they?

I am pretty sure that some countries would insist on anyone in their country having a … Read the rest

Subclass 485 Visa Application and Grant Statistics

Application and Grant Statistics for subclass 485 visas.

In the last financial year there were 68,917 applications submitted for the subclass 485 visa streams.
During the same period, 63,994 grants were made for this visa stream.

The above figures included 17,758 subclass 485 secondary applications, and 16,532 secondary application grants.… Read the rest

Subclass 485 subsequent entrant visa processing times 2019

Processing Times for subclass 485 subsequent entry visa in 2019.

An analysis of sixty four subclass 485 subsequent entry visa grants in 2019 has shown that the processing times, for those granted, has taken between 50 and 168 days between Application and Grant.

Some applicants made an application that included … Read the rest