Expression of Interest Submitted, Then What?

So you have submitted your expression of interest for a visa to move to Australia. Then what?

That is the current position we are currently in. We submitted an EOI for a 190 visa for South Australia on the 14th of June 2024. Now I’m wondering what we can do next for the sake of our own sanity.

Dramatic? Maybe.

However, as soon as that expression of interest was submitted it felt like we’d signed up for a race, done the training and the only piece of missing information was the date on which we start running the actual race.

Sorry for the appalling metaphor, but you get the picture. By the time you submit the EOI, you’ve already jumped through several hoops and you just want some payback.

How do you pass the time while you wait for an indefinite amount of time?

Can you check on the progress?

We’ll answer those questions with exactly what we’re doing at the moment. From each of our perspectives.

I am not the primary applicant for the visa. So far all I’ve had to provide is some tech skills and some enthusiasm.

Having said that, me and Mrs HTWA are equally enthusiastic about moving from the UK to Australia, so each day I have at least one moment where I wonder if an email update has arrived.

Life goes on however, the reality is most of the time I’m just doing what I do at home and at work as always.

In addition to normal life, I am reading a book No One Listens to Your Dad’s Show from a fellow Brit who made the move to Australia with his family. Christian O’Connell.

I want to read about the motivations and experiences of fellow Brits who have made the move down under, so I can learn as much as I can about what I can hopefully expect to experience in the coming years.

O’Connell’s situation seems far removed from my own. He was a hugely successful DJ in the UK and obviously enjoys the financial privilege that comes along with that.

I loved listening to his show on Absolute Radio as I was making the bleary-eyed 6 am commute to work 10 years ago in my former career as a retail manager.

However, having read half the book now, the motivations of Christian aren’t so far away from myself my Wife, and I presume many of us who want to migrate from the UK to Australia. He seems to have that desire for an adventure, driven by the sense that there must be more to this (life).

Albeit, his was brought about by an acute mental health crisis.

I definitely recommend giving his book a read.

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While I cannot strictly check on the progress of the EOI, by using the SkillSelect Dashboard it is possible to get some data about the occupation and understand the pool of applicants applying for the same visa as Mrs HTWA (190 subclass, Primary School Teacher).

The YouTube video from Australia Immigration Matters above is very useful in terms of guiding you through how to use the dashboard and interpret the data.

If you are going to use the dashboard, I definitely recommend doing it via a laptop or PC with the YouTube video running on a second screen.

Somewhat annoyingly, if the number of the count of EOI in any of the statuses is less than 20. In the dashboard, you will just see <20.

This seemed to cover a lot of the results for the 190 visa for the Primary School Teacher occupation as of 06/2024.

I’ll summarise the data in a table below for Primary School Teachers.

EOI Status	Points	Count EOIs
Submitted	65	20
Submitted	70	<20
Submitted	75	<20
Submitted	80	<20
Submitted	85	<20
Lodged	65	Not Available
Lodged	70	<20
Lodged	75	<20
Lodged	80	<20
Lodged	85	<20
Invited	65	Not Available
Invited	70	<20
Invited	75	Not Available
Invited	80	Not Available
Invited	85	Not Available
Closed	65	<20
Closed	70	27
Closed	75	32
Closed	80	<20
Closed	85	<20

The data in the table above takes into account the previous 2 years data for the the 190 visa for Primary school teachers.

As an applicant with 85 points, we can see that –

• Fewer than 20 applications exist within the submitted class
• Fewer than 20 applications exist within the lodged class
• No one on 85 points is currently in the invited class
• Fewer than 20 applications exist within the closed class

What do you do with that data?

Well how I’m choosing to look at it is this.

Not many people with 85 points exist in the EOI pool. 65 points show 20 applicants, perhaps that puts us in a preferential position if invites are done on a highest points first basis.

There are fewer than 20 people in the 85 points bracket with their EOI in the lodged status, which makes sense if the general level of submissions for that points total is low.

Invited show nobody with 85 points is currently in that stage as of 06/2024. Maybe it’s just because of the time of year, I say this as South Australia has just confirmed its 2024-2025 190 numbers.

Fewer than 20 applications exist within the closed class, could mean that applicants with 85 points are steadily being processed onto the Visa Granted stage or of course dropping off after 2 years.

Really the way I’m feeling is that our application is strong and puts us in a good position to receive an invite.

Of course, it just appears, that invites for Primary School Teachers in South Australia are not being issued in huge volumes at the moment.

So we have to remain patient and hopeful.

I hope this post will be of some use to you and you can make some use of the dashboard.

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All the best, whatever stage of the journey you are at.