75 points is enough, if not on a pro rata profession....

The statistics are pretty accurate....pro rata professions need 80 points now to get immediate invitation.....

Both can be used for immigration use, but if you profession has an English requirement too, it needs to be academic...

Del

This post has been edited by limeuu: Jul 15 2018, 06:06 PM

To get the 20points, you need pte 79....all bands....

The crucial part is always getting the full 20 points from English.... otherwise you are at 70points and for ICT applicants, in a long queue....

So before starting, get the English sorted out first....

Documents you can collect and certify along the way, but you can put in your eoi anytime, you don't need to submit anything.... only when they invite you for processing, you need to submit the documents....

http://www.iscah.com/estimates-will-get-189-eoi-invitation/

As you can see from above, with 70 points, you will wait 1 year....so get your IELTS band 8 all components/pte 79.....

You can lodge an eoi anytime.... they don't require any documents....but once they invite you for processing, then you have 1 month to submit all the required documents....

So English first, if 80 points, make sure you get all documents ready as you will get invite the next round (every fortnight)....if 70 points, get into queue now, you have 1 year to get documents ready, including ACS.....

If you manage to get 80 points with further tries at IELTS/pte, then once all documents ready, update your eoi, and based on current information, you will get invite the next round....

Also note that processing is VERY slow lately, 189 taking up to 8-10 months to grant....

If one is sitting on 65-70 points with ICT, one is looking at a 1 year queue....so makes sense to lodge first....if circumstances change you can always alter your eoi claimed points...

But yes, if you cannot prove your claimed points, do not submit at invite....you will get barred from reapplying....

Yes, the top applications come from the sub continent, and they seem to do well with the computer based PTE, pushing up the average eoi points 10 points since the last year....as recent as 2016, priority processing was done with 65 points!.... extremely rare to get all bands 8 in IELTS....

Latest: doha now only making invites once a month, instead of the previous fortnightly....

The whole system is really grinding to a halt.... processing used to take 4-6 weeks to grant, is now taking 10 months....

Sounds they don't want so many immigrants nowadays, although on paper they are still committed to the same numbers as before....

Not sure about closing....but they are certainly putting a maze in front of it....lol

The Turnbull government got trounced soundly...so policy reversal?

In any case, like the article said, the reduction was mainly in the skilled migration group, as can be seen in the number of 189s invited since late last year....

This post has been edited by limeuu: Jul 30 2018, 12:16 PM

Actually, lots of msians get overall 8.0 in IELTS....but Oz immigration needs all components band 8 to qualify for the 20 points...

Your result will only qualify you for 10 points.... you got your grant in 2015, that would be enough....but now you need at least >75 points to get immediate invite, which basically means you need full 20 points from English....

Up till early last year, it was fast....

Fast invites depends on points....time to grant now is 8-10 months....may get longer....

Cannot get 80 points without the English 20 points....

If not in a hurry, you can use a bank draft, and deposit in a msian bank physically....but the draft will need to come back physically.... however you will still be subject to rather bad exchange rates....

For travel money, apparently Citibank debit cards are cheap withdrawing from an overseas ATM.... almost at spot exchange rates....Gary, may be easier than bringing cash, convert in msia, deposit in msian account....and then use the msian debit card....

It's the dibp/dha slowing down everything.... processing of pr used to just take 1-2 months 2 years ago and now takes 8-10 months.... despite selecting less people, 30k less last cycle year....

Not sure why....

It means that the sum quoted includes all taxes withheld for submission to ird, and super (pension fund) contributions....so yes what you take home is going to be significantly less that the quoted sum....

At 75k gross, expect nett to be about 55-60k....or about 2400 per fortnight....

Super, not sure if can take out when you leave...

Turnbull in spite of being pro immigration, oversaw a drop in immigrant numbers over the last 2 years as well as ballooning wait for invites and processing time....

Well..

Even I think there are too many Asian migration....lol