Final Skill Select Round for 2020/2021 Financial Year
Results have now been launched for the last invitation spherical of the 2020/2021 economic year, with some huge jumps in invitation numbers for sure occupations.The mixed complete of 660 invites is an 81% amplify on the wide variety of invitations despatched in the January 2021 round,
with 500 of these for a Subclass 189 Skilled Independent visa and one hundred sixty for the Subclass 491 Skilled Work Regional (Family Sponsored) visa.
The minimal factors rating for the 491-visa remained at sixty-five points, however, the 189 minimal rating shot up to eighty points. The most currently lodged EOI for a 491 used to be from March 2021, at the same time as the most contemporary EOI for a 189 visa was once as soon as dated in July 2019 – almost a 2-year wait for an invitation!
Pro-Rata Occupations
Two of the pro-rata occupations obtained invitations this round:
| Occupation ID | Description | Minimum Points Score | Latest date of EOI |
| 2335 | Industrial, Mechanical and Production Engineers | 80 (SC189) | 07/2019 |
| 2339 | Other Engineering Professionals | 90 (SC189) | 05/2020 |
| 2339 | Other Engineering Professionals | 70 (SC491) | 09/2020 |
Accountants, Auditors, ICT Business and System Analysts, Software and Applications Programmers, and Computer Network Professionals did no longer obtain a single invitation in the 2020/2021 economic yr Applicants in these occupations have to think about choice selections which includes State- and Employer-Nominated applications.
Crunching the Numbers
According to the Occupation Ceiling table, these who acquired invites this spherical included:
• 206 General Practitioners and Resident Medical officers;
• 117 Registered Nurses;
• 74 Mining Engineers;
• 73 Industrial, Mechanical, and Production Engineers;
• 41 Veterinarians (only these days introduced to the precedence expert migration list);
• 22 Social Workers (the first invites this monetary year); and
• 21 Other Engineering Professionals.
The stability invites have been despatched to Medical Laboratory Scientists, Other Medical Practitioners, Internal Medicine Specialists, Medical Imaging Professionals, Environmental Scientists, Other Natural and Physical Science Professionals, Psychologists, and Geologists/Geophysicists/Hydrogeologists.