SKILLED WORK REGIONAL VISA (SUBCLASS 491)

Is your score enough for 491 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 Work Regional visa (subclass 491). Drag your score below.

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100pointsAbout 4–8 months
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At 100 points you are right near the top of the Surgeon (General) Skilled Work Regional (491) queue. Very few people sit this high, but it is a high-competition band and the published counts there are redacted, so we won't put a precise number on it. Realistically, a score this strong is usually invited quickly when rounds run. This regional stream already includes the +15 nomination points.

For context only: recent rounds we could read cleared near 95 points, but invitation data is heavily redacted, so treat that as a rough marker, not a target.

At or above you
Very few
Your standing
Near the top
Queue trend
Holding steady

Modelled from queue movement, not a prediction. Queue as at 05/2026.

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 trend11 months
was 10now 10 in queue

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491 | Surgeon (General) (253511) | 100 pts | est. wait 4–8 months | via sortedout.app/tools/491/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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