Due to the strong demand for places in the General Skilled Migration (GSM) program the department is unable to immediately allocate all GSM applications to a case officer for consideration. When an application is allocated to a case officer depends on a number of factors, including the Priority Group of the application and the visa subclass applied for.
If your application has been allocated to a case officer you should have received communication from your case officer.
The tables below list lodgement dates of applications that have been allocated to case officers. These tables were last updated on 17 February 2012 and will be updated fortnightly.
Priority processing
Applicants who lodged a GSM application before the following dates have been contacted by a case officer.
Important note:
N/A denotes 'Not Applicable'. There are no GSM visa subclasses within these priority groups.
** Not currently allocating.
A high volume of Priority Group 4 applications were received in May and June 2011. Whilst cases continue to be allocated per week, the limited movement of allocation dates reflect the high volume of applications received during this period. The affected visa subclasses are:
Skilled – Independent (Migrant) subclass 175
Skilled – Sponsored (Migrant) subclass 176
Skilled – Regional Sponsored (Provisional) subclass 475
Allocation of Priority Group 5 applications lodged outside Australia is yet to commence.
Information is available about the processing of Priority Group 5 applications.