AUSTRALIA: Immitracker vs. DOHA, immigration processing time insights (January 2024)
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 and citizenship, the Australian Department of Home Affairs (DOHA) provides average processing time estimates. These official estimates by visa can be found here (and for citizenship 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.
January 2024 High Level Processing Time Comparison
For the first analysis, we’re presenting the Immitracker numbers for January 2024. The programs that Immitracker took for our analysis are from the most popular trackers and include:
In the graph below, we display the government processing time estimates for each of these programs (published the week of January 15th) 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 in January.
January 2024 Processing Time Analysis by Program
In this section, we break down our Immitracker processing time insights by individual program including the quantity of cases that were analyzed and the number of days it took on average for the case to go from submission to completion.
Citizenship
For Citizenship applicants, we analyzed 12 cases that were invited to their Citizenship Ceremony in January 2024. It on average took them 191 days to receive an invitation after their application was submitted.
The Citizenship Ceremony is the final step in the citizenship application process. During the ceremony, the applicant formally becomes an Australian citizen. The Australian government presents two separate processing timelines for citizenship: pre-application decision and post-approval (waiting on the citizenship ceremony to be scheduled).
The government claims that 90% of the applications should be processed within 13 months (from the date the application was submitted to the time the ceremony is held).
SC190 Visa Program
From the SC190 visa applicants, a total of 20 cases received their visa grant in January 2024 and it on average took them 340 days in order to receive it.
SC189 Visa Program
From the SC189 visa applicants, a total of 17 cases received their visa grant in January 2024 and it on average took them 368 days in order to receive it.
The processing time for this particular visa program seems to have barely changed compared to December (368 days vs 364) and is on par with what the government is reporting.
January 2024 Summary Infographic
If you’re interested in getting a copy of our data analysis summaries, you can download them along with the infographic 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!
