Anyone manage to get invitation with 60 points for Skilled independent visa 189?

No, no one has got an invitation with 60 points for IT industry in the recent past and neither anyone will ever get an invitation to apply for Australia Skilled Independent Visa subclass 189.

You must be aware that Australian Immigration government has increased its Australia Pass points from 60 to 65 from July 1, 2018 onwards. Thus, nobody will ever get a nomination on 60 points for any skilled migration visa category.

Read- Increased pass points for Australia Immigration

Australia Skilled Independent Visa subclass 189is a point based permanent residency visa that allows skilled workers to live and work anywhere in Australia for indefinite period of time. The applicant does not need any state/territory sponsorship to apply for Australia Skilled Independent Visa Subclass 189. Only, occupation must be listed on Medium and Long Term Strategic Skill List 2018 to be able to apply for Australia PR and 65 minimum eligible point score.

The points are calculated for age, educational qualification, work experience, skills, language proficiency and other factors.

Points can be checked using Australia Point Calculator

However, as an applicant to work in IT industry, be it ICT business and system analyst or IT engineers must have 75 and above immigration score to be able to receive an invitation to apply from Australian government, as per the latest invitation round results 2018.

Check the latest invitation round results 2018

It is good news that occupations related to ICT industry are in demand in Australia labour market and it will continue to be in demand for at least next 5 years. Financial Review reported that Australia needs at least 100,000 new ICT workers to meet the labour requirement in Australia. As there are less than 5000 local graduates from ICT degree each year. Australia needs to depend upon skilled workers to meet their local labour requirement. Last year, there were 22,300 new technology jobs created and Australia is planning to expand these numbers for coming years.

Thus, it is bright chance for you to apply for Australian permanent residency as an IT worker provided you try to improve your immigration point score.

With such a low score my friend, now you are not even eligible to apply for Australian Permanent Residency. Thus, in any way, you need to improve your point score for better immigration chances.

The higher your immigration points, the better your chances to receive an Invitation to apply from the Australian government.

You may improve your point score by taking language proficiency test again or by gaining work experience or trying for state nomination for Australia Subclass 190 or family sponsorship/sate nomination for Australia provisional visa subclass 489.

Tips to improve your Australia Immigration point score!

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What all you need to know about Australia 189 PR processing?

Australia skilled independent visa subclass 189 is a point based immigration visa which allows an applicant to live and work in Australia for indefinite period of time. To apply under subclass 189 visa, an applicant need not to have any state or territory nomination from the Australian government. A minimum of 60 points is required to be eligible to apply for Australian permanent residency which is based on the factors like age, qualification, work-experience, relevant skills, English language proficiency etc.

One can check their score using Australia 189 PR point calculator. The higher the immigration score, the better are the chances to get an invitation to apply for Australia independent subclass 189 visa. Although, the Australia 189 PR processing time depends upon application to application, it is said that the points highest in the pool gets top most priority in receiving an invitation to apply. The general Australia 189 PR processing time for 75 percent of application is 9 months and for 90 percent of applications is 12 months.