The quota of invitations for ICT Business and Systems Analysts has been reached and no further invitations to apply will be issued for these occupations under the sub class 189 Independent and subclass 489 Regional visas until the next financial year which begins on 1st July 2015.
However, invitations to apply are still being issued for Accountants and Software and Application Programmers on a pro rata basis. Priority will be given to those under the Independent subclass 189 and Regional subclass 489 Provisional Family Sponsored categories for the remainder of this financial year.