SKILLED INDEPENDENT VISA (SUBCLASS 189)

Is your score enough for 189 Zoologist?

Two questions, one honest answer: is your points score enough, and how long is the wait for Zoologist (ANZSCO 234518) on the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189). Drag your score below.

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80points2+ years on current movement
6095

At 80 points, roughly 40 people sit at or above you in this Zoologist Skilled Independent (189) queue. That puts you roughly in the top 65% of eligible EOIs. That queue has eased about 36% over the months we can see. Honest wait estimate: roughly 2+ 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 88 points, but invitation data is heavily redacted, so treat that as a rough marker, not a target.

At or above you
~40
Your standing
~Top 65%
Queue trend
Down 36%

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

Thin data, treat as rough. Much of this queue is redacted to under 20 per bracket, so these are rough ranges, not precise ranks.
Queue depth trend13 months
was 110now 70 in queue

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189 | Zoologist (234518) | 80 pts | est. wait 2+ years on current movement | via sortedout.app/tools/189/zoologist-234518

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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 Zoologist 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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