Is your score enough for 491 Software and Applications Programmers nec?
Two questions, one honest answer: is your points score enough, and how long is the wait for Software and Applications Programmers nec (ANZSCO 261399) on the Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491). Drag your score below.
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At 85 points, roughly 4.5k people sit at or above you in this Software and Applications Programmers nec Skilled Work Regional (491) queue. That puts you roughly in the top 65% of eligible EOIs. That queue has grown about 84% over the months we can see, so waiting tends to add competition. Honest wait estimate: roughly 5–10 months. This regional stream already includes the +15 nomination points.
For context only: recent rounds we could read cleared near 75 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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491 | Software and Applications Programmers nec (261399) | 85 pts | est. wait 5–10 months | via sortedout.app/tools/491/software-and-applications-programmers-nec-261399
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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 Software and Applications Programmers 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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