Now that DIBP have advised just 700 places for each round in November 2017 we are able to see why there were so few invitation results from the 9th November round.

We think this 700 places per round for November is so that DIBP do not over commit with invitations while they sort out the skill select issues of recent months. The average for each month until the end of the program year needs to now be around 2000 (so 1000 per round, even allowing for the New Zealand citizen allocation for 189s) in order to get to their usual 31,000 for the program year. So our calculations later today will be based on 2000 per month being the “average” for the next 7 months.

Here is an update on our unofficial results from the 9th November round. It is based on invitations that we have seen from our own cases, databases and web forums, our FB followers contacting us, and mathematical logic that we know to be correct from other results.

We have also been able to predict whether the full quota was invite for that occupation in that round. As that will not be the case for all occupations with just 700 invitations possible.

2211 Accountants – 75 points – 15/09/2017* (full quota invited for the round)
2212 Auditors – no results but … (full quota invited for the round)
2334 Electronic Engineer – 70 points – 19/10/2017*
2335 Industrial, Mech and Prod Engineers 70 points – 21/10/2017*
2339 Other Engineering Professionals – no results
2611 ICT Business and System Analysts 70 points – 27/07/2017* (full quota invited for the round)
2613 Software/Applic Programmers 70 points – 21/10/2017*
2631 Computer Network Professionals – 70 points – 21/10/2017
ALL OTHER NON Pro rata occupations – 70 points – 21/10/2017*

(Note these are not DIBP figures and there may well be other invitations more recent we are unaware of)