SKILLED INDEPENDENT VISA (SUBCLASS 189)

Is your score enough for 189 Engineering Professionals nec?

Two questions, one honest answer: is your points score enough, and how long is the wait for Engineering Professionals nec (ANZSCO 233999) on the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189). Drag your score below.

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80pointsAbout 4–8 months
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At 80 points, roughly 650 people sit at or above you in this Engineering Professionals nec Skilled Independent (189) queue. That puts you roughly in the top 50% of eligible EOIs. That queue has grown about 18% over the months we can see, so waiting tends to add competition. Honest wait estimate: roughly 4–8 months. 190 or 491 (state nomination) can add 5 to 15 points and a shorter queue.

For context only: recent rounds we could read cleared near 70 points, but invitation data is heavily redacted, so treat that as a rough marker, not a target.

At or above you
~650
Your standing
~Top 50%
Queue trend
Up 18%

Modelled from queue movement, not a prediction. Queue as at 06/2026.

Good data coverage. Most of this queue is exact public counts, so these positions are dependable.
Queue depth trend13 months
was 1,169now 1,375 in queue

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189 | Engineering Professionals nec (233999) | 80 pts | est. wait 4–8 months | via sortedout.app/tools/189/engineering-professionals-nec-233999

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How to read this

The Department of Home Affairs invites the highest-scoring Expressions of Interest first, so what matters most is roughly how many people sit at or above your score in the Engineering Professionals nec queue, and whether that queue is growing or shrinking. The fewer people ahead of you and the more the queue is easing, the shorter your likely wait. We read this from the real submitted queue, not from invitation cut-offs, because the published invitation numbers are heavily redacted. Smaller brackets are published only as under twenty, so we frame your position as approximate, and at the very top of the queue, where almost everything is redacted, we describe where you sit rather than invent a precise count. The confidence note on the tool tells you how much of that queue is real public data. When the data is too thin to model a wait, we say so rather than guess.

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