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Hi All. My girlfriend has lodged an EOI for a 489 family sponsored visa as a nurse. She is claiming 65 points. I know the invitations have recently been reduced to 15 invitations per round, but I am just seeing if there is anybody out there that has been in the same boat over the last few months, and has been invited. How long did this take? Or is anybody in the same boat as us and still waiting for an invitation? By the way, I know your invitation can be in the system for two years etc before getting an invitation. I am well aware of all the rules. I am simply asking is there anybody who has been in a similar situation so as we can maybe ascertain an idea of a timeframe. Thanks in advance! K

Thanks. Seems to be the same off my phone though. They must be doing a bit of maintenance.

Hi All, Just wanted to go into our EOI to check if it's still on there. We added an EOI for a 489 visa on 12 April but have not had an invite yet. However, when I go in to skillselect, it seems to be in beta mode and gives me a server error. If I try the immi website, I get an 'internal server error' message. Anyone else having problems? Thanks in advance! Kieran

Thanks for the info. After reading this and the immigration website, we have decided to leave the invitation expire and (hopefully) get invited again down the line. One question though, can we go in and edit our EOI now after we let this invitation expire? Or do we have to wait two years until they remove the EOI off the system?

I would have done this without hesitation if there were more invitations being issued, but they have now stopped invites for the 489 visa indefinitely, so there's no telling when we will get an invite again. I'm still interested to see if there has been anyone who progressed with the visa in this case and was granted it.

Hi All, My girlfriend and I are currently on a Working Holiday Visa. This is ending on 8 December. Last week, we submitted an EOI for a family nominated Regional sponsored visa (489). We have enough points, and she had applied for her skills test 12 weeks ago so in the EOI we inputted the ref no we got from the accreditation board and the date that we applied for the skills assessment. We got the invitation last Sunday, and have been waiting anxiously for the skills assessment to be completed so we could go ahead with our application. We received the E-mail from the accreditation board today stating the skills assessment was complete. SUCCESS! Or so we thought. My girlfriend rang immigration today and they told her that because our invitation pre-dates our skills assessment result, when we apply we will be rejected, as this was an invalid invitation. I don't want anyone replying to this thread to post links to the immigration page or large chunks of text where it states that this is the case. What I want to know is 1. Should we go ahead with the application and play dumb and 2. Is there any chance it will go through, as we now have everything required. Has anybody else had this experience and can they offer any advice? :arghh: