AUSTRALIA: Immitracker vs. DOHA, immigration processing time insights (February-March 2024)(SC190 Only)
Starting December 2023, we launched the Australian equivalent of the Canadian monthly report that analyzes the application trends for the most popular skilled immigration / visa programs. With the help of our users who thoughtfully put in their case information, we’re able to glean valuable insights regarding actual processing times for Australian immigration.
For each visa program, the Australian Department of Home Affairs (DOHA) provides average processing time estimates. These official estimates by visa can be found here. From the cases that get logged in the Australian trackers on Immitracker, we noticed that sometimes the actual processing times can vary from the ones presented by the government.
February-March 2024 High Level Processing Time Comparison
For this analysis, we’re presenting the Immitracker numbers for February-March 2024. The program that Immitracker took for our analysis is from the popular SC190 Visa tracker.
In the graph below, we display the government processing time estimates for this program for both of the months (published for the dates of February 1st and March 1st) on the left side and the actual processing time estimates calculated by Immitracker on the right side. The Immitracker numbers were calculated based on the cases that successfully finished processing separately in February and in March.
In-Depth Processing Time Analysis
In this section, we break down our Immitracker processing time insights for the SC190 program including the quantity of cases that were analyzed and the number of days it took on average for the cases to go from submission to completion.
February 2024
In February, a total of 40 cases received their visa grant and it on average took them 349 days in order to receive it.
This number is very similar to the January 2024 processing time average of 340 days.
March 2024
In March, a total of 14 cases received their visa grant and it on average took them 385 days in order to receive it.
We can see that the SC190 average case processing times have increased by over 35 days since February. We also noticed that the DOHA processing time estimates increased from 12 months in January to 15 months in February and March. The processing times for this program have steadily been increasing over 2024.
If you’re interested in getting a copy of our data analysis summaries, you can download them for free at the following link!
Looking for processing time insights for other programs? Check out the Immitracker trackers or reach out to us through our Contact Form and we can help you find the answers!
