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 23 September 2011 and will be updated fortnightly.
Important Information:
New State Migration Plans (SMPs) for some states and territories have been released. Details are available on the relevant state or territory websites.
Due to the implementation of these new SMPs, some existing GSM applications are eligible for Priority Group 3 processing. GSM is currently re-categorising these applications to ensure they are prioritised correctly and affected applicants do not need to contact GSM processing centres regarding this.
As a result this of re-categorising the allocation of Priority Group 4 applications has been reduced for this update period.