Is your score enough for 189 Surgeon (General)?
Two questions, one honest answer: is your points score enough, and how long is the wait for Surgeon (General) (ANZSCO 253511) on the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189). Drag your score below.
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At 65 points, roughly 20 people sit at or above you in this Surgeon (General) Skilled Independent (189) queue. That puts you roughly in the top 100% of eligible EOIs. That queue has eased about 50% over the months we can see. Honest wait estimate: roughly 5+ years on current movement. 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 80 points, but invitation data is heavily redacted, so treat that as a rough marker, not a target.
Modelled from queue movement, not a prediction. Queue as at 06/2026.
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189 | Surgeon (General) (253511) | 65 pts | est. wait 5+ years on current movement | via sortedout.app/tools/189/surgeon-253511
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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 Surgeon (General) 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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