Migration Program

Migration Program

Australia’s migration program is carefully designed to achieve a range of economic and social needs of the Australian community. As per the Australian Government and Department of Home Affairs, the migration program is set annually, for the year 2020-2021 the total places available capped at a ceiling of 160,000. The program is broken down into:

  1. Skill stream- 79,600
  2. Family stream- 77300
  3. Special Eligibility- 100
  4. Child places- 3000

The size and composition of the migration program are set through the Australian Governments Budget process along with consultations with state and territory governments, business and community groups. The decision is based on the community and economic views, labour force forecasts, International research, net overseas migration, and economic fiscal modeling.

State and Territory nominated visa allocations

StateSkilled Nominated (Subclass 190) VisaSkilled Work Regional (Subclass 491) visaBusiness Innovation and Investment Program (BIIP)
ACT80259830
NSW3,5502,8002,200
VIC2,5001,0431,750
QLD​1,0001,2501,200
NT50050075
WA1,100340360
SA1,5001,8501,000
TAS1,0001,40045
Total11,9529,7816,660

The information is taken from the below source:

https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/what-we-do/migration-program-planning-levels

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/reports-and-pubs/files/migration-program-discussion-paper-2021-22.pdf