Background: On May 4 last year, the FSW opened 24 occupational categories, with a total of 5,000 places, with an upper limit of 300 places in each category. The other conditions of the 51 New Deal this year have not changed. It is the addition of quotas (a total of 25,000, 1000 for each occupation) and occupational categories. Then when will the quota for this year be used up? We can estimate the situation this year from the number of applications received by the Department of Immigration on July 29 last year.
Total received toward the overall cap: 389 / 5000 (CIC Update as on 29th July 2013)
0211 Engineering managers
23 / 300
1112 Financial and investment analysts
131 / 300
2113 Geoscientists and oceanographers
3 / 300
2131 Civil engineers
14 / 300
2132 Mechanical engineers
12 / 300
2134 Chemical engineers
4 / 300
2143 Mining engineers
0 / 300
2145 Petroleum engineers
1 / 300
2144 Geological engineers
0 / 300
2146 Aerospace engineers
1 / 300
2147 Computer engineers (except software engineers/designers)
38 / 300
2154 Land surveyors
0 / 300
2174 Computer programmers and interactive media developers
120 / 300
2243 Industrial instrument technicians and mechanics
2 / 300
2263 Inspectors in public and environmental health and occupational health and safety
9 / 300
3141 Audiologists and speech-language pathologists
0 / 300
3142 Physiotherapists
11 / 300
3143 Occupational Therapists
4 / 300
3211 Medical laboratory technologists
11 / 300
3212 Medical laboratory technicians and pathologists’ assistants
1 / 300
3214 Respiratory therapists, clinical perfusionists and cardiopulmonary technologists
0 / 300
3215 Medical Radiation Technologists
1 / 300
3216 Medical Sonographers
2 / 300
3217 Cardiology technologists and electrophysiological diagnostic technologists
1 / 300
*Between May 4, 2013, and April 30, 2014, CIC will consider no more than 5,000 complete FSW applications for processing. Within the 5,000 cap, they will consider no more than 300 applications per eligible occupation for processing within this same time frame