Australia Immigration Application Processing Times And Priorities

Immigration To Australia has always been a main source of infusion of fresh talent and skills into the Australian shores. Over the years, the Australian authorities have used inwards  migration effectively not only to enhance the consumption capacity of the local economy and expanding the tax net but also to find possible and viable sources of skills to replace the aging workforce and infuse fresh talent in the local labor pool. Similarly, infusion of business skills and expertise is sought along with much needed funds to boost the business scenario and enhance the funding capacity of local economy at micro level and macro level.

Naturally, when a call for qualified immigrants is sent by a country like this, there is ought to be a great rush for gold from people from various corners of the world. But as every Australian system is well planned and organized, the inwards migration has also been planned in the similar manner. Everything is well planned and adapted to serve a wider user base and address target audience and also handle a great onslaught of requests flowing in from the aspirants. The authorities design the annual migration policy to meet and address country’s socioeconomic requirements.

Every year, the authorities in close coordination with all stakeholders and DIBP officials define the scope of the inwards migration scheme for the next year (starting from July every year). The Australia Immigration Priorities are established and categorized as per the need for each class of visa, i.e. generally the annual target number of visa are pitched at 190,000which is further bifurcated into following classes

• Around 129, 000 (around 68%) visa are reserved for economic migration (including skills, business and employment based categories), i.e. 

1. Section 189 – federal independent
2. Section 190 – provincial nomination permanent 
3. Section 489 – temporary provincial nomination 
4. Section 186 (ENS) and 187 (RSMS) – employment based permanent 
5. Section 188 (business innovation and investment) – temporary 
6. Section 132 (business talent) – permanent  
7. Section 457 – temporary 

• Approximately 61000 (around 32%) places are reserved (including section 489) for  family class visa 

To handle the huge quantum of applications quickly, the Aussie authorities have defined certain policy objectives and services standards under which they intend and aspire to process 3/4th of the requests received within the pre defined Processing Times And Priorities. The DIBP officials have categorized precedence of evaluation, i.e. group

1. Applications under RSMS
2. Applications under ENS
3. Applications for Visa sections served by CSOL 
4. Applications for Visa sections served by SOL 
5. All other applications

Although the responsibility of dealing with requests depends solely on the authorities, the Australia Immigration Application Processing Times And Priorities process is also grossly impacted by certain unavoidable factors like

• The ease with which information and background of supporting documents submitted by the applicants can be verified and authenticated 
• The time taken by the other connected agencies in reverting back with information requested 
• The response time taken by the applicants to revert back with requested details and additional inputs 
• The number of nodes involved in accepting the requests.  

It is highly suggested here that if you want to ensure that you do not receive rejection or the evaluation of your request is not delayed, you must always double check all the required forms and documents before final submission and also ensure that you have

• Completing, answering, and endorsing all the forms in the application kit, not leaving any column blank and answering ‘N/A’ if query does not apply to you
• Annexing  all supporting.

Although the responsibility of dealing with requests depends solely on the authorities, the Australia Immigration Application Processing Times And Priorities process is also grossly impacted by certain unavoidable factors. Every year, the authorities in close coordination with all stakeholders and DIBP officials define the scope of the inwards migration scheme for the next year.

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