Western Australia Invitation Rounds Begin in February 2023

Australia Immigration – Western Australia Invitation Rounds Begin in February 2023

Jan 23,2023

The latest update came from Western Australia regarding the upcoming State Nomination Invitation Rounds. As per the department, they have received an overwhelming amount of applications for the state nomination migration program. As a result, the department requires sufficient time to process this large volume of applications.

The department is planning to prioritize the volume of applications and especially, the remaining applications before the end of the program year 2022-23. Moreover, the state nomination invitation rounds are likely to begin in the first week of each month and are about to start in February 2023.

About the State Nomination Program

The nomination is required from the state or territory such as the nomination from the Government of Western Australia (WA). This nomination is necessary to be qualified for the state-nominated skilled visa. Moreover, the eligibility of the WA nomination will only be confirmed when one must meet both the criteria of the Department of Home Affairs (Home Affairs).

In addition, the state nomination provides extra points in the DHA’s points test. These extra points will be added automatically to the EOI (Expression of Interest) in the Home Affairs Skill Select database. Candidates may be nominated based on getting extra points for

Subclass 190 Skilled Nominated Visa will be added extra five points
Subclass 491 Skilled Work Regional (Provisional) Visa will add extra 15 points.

WA State Nomination Streams

The general stream WASMOL schedule 1
The general stream WASMOL schedule 2
The graduate stream

Invitations Issued on 16 December 2022

Intending visa subclass	SNMP General stream –WASMOL schedule 1	SNMP General stream –WASMOL schedule 2	SNMP Graduate stream – higher education graduates	SNMP Graduate stream – vocational education and training graduates
Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190)	194	1053	814	304
Skilled Regional (Provisional) visa (subclass 491)	194	1915	269	263

Invitations Issued During The Program Year 2022 – 2023

Visa subclass	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	June	Total
SNMP General stream – WASMOL schedule 1
190		159	373	531	510	194							1767
491		41	127	822	458	194							1642
SNMP General stream – WASMOL schedule 2
190		83	195	563	463	1053							2357
491		117	263	938	1037	1915							4270
SNMP Graduate Stream – higher education graduates
190		97	241	959	1069	814							3180
491		53	129	313	327	269							1091
SNMP Graduate stream – Vocational Education and Training Graduates
190		12	63	241	376	304							994
491		38	62	159	260	263							778
Total
		600	1453	4526	4500	5006							16085

Conclusion

As the new year begins aspirants who wish to Migrate to Australia are expecting some more good news from the country. Last year after July 2022, Australia declared some significant draws. As a result, around 55000+ candidates have received the invitation to apply. States also play an important role to invite plenty of immigrants from the draw. As far as, WA has concerned, the state already invited 16000+ candidates from the recent draws and from the next month onwards hoping for more positive rounds.