QueueCheckofficial waits, shared datesSubclass 485 visa processing time
Visa topic1.9 months-4 months
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Last checked August 11, 2026.
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1.9 months to 4 months
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Updated Aug 11
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Subclass 485 Post-Higher Education Work: 50% in 59 days, 90% in 4 months
Updated Aug 11, 2026, 2:55 PM
1.9 months-4 months
Subclass 485 Post-Higher Education Work: 50% in 59 days, 90% in 4 months
Updated Jul 17, 2026, 2:17 PM
1.9 months-4 months
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Reading the Subclass 485 visa figure
A window that opens at graduation and closes fast
The Post-Higher Education Work stream exists for recent graduates, and the eligibility that matters most is not academic but chronological: the qualifying course has to have been completed within a short window before the application is lodged. Miss it and no amount of qualification helps, because the stream is defined by recency. The published percentile figures describe how long a lodged application takes to decide; they say nothing about the window in front of that, which is the part applicants actually lose.
The study requirement counts weeks, not degrees
Behind the visa sits the Australian study requirement, measured in weeks of study in registered courses rather than in qualifications earned. Two years of study is the shape of it, and study completed abroad or outside registered courses does not fill the gap. Applicants who transferred, took leave, or accelerated are the ones who discover late that the arithmetic does not reach.
Percentiles are not a promise, and the fast half is real
Home Affairs publishes this visa's timing as percentiles, meaning half of applications are decided inside the shorter figure and nine in ten inside the longer one. Both numbers are true simultaneously. The gap between them is where document completeness, health and character checks, and any request for more information live, and an application that arrives complete is the one with a chance at the shorter half.
Where you can be, and what you can do, while it decides
The visa is generally applied for from within Australia, and a bridging visa usually covers the wait. What that bridging visa permits is not automatically what the student visa permitted, so work rights, study rights, and travel rights are worth reading rather than assuming, particularly before booking travel that assumes a right to return.
Complete timeline guide
A 485 refusal in Australia: the deadline, the section 48 bar, and what leaving actually costs
A subclass 485 refusal starts a short, unextendable clock for merits review, and the decisions taken in those first days shape everything after. How the review deadline works, what the section 48 bar does to onshore applications, why a bridging visa A ends the moment you board a flight out, and why the leave-and-return idea is a genuine fork rather than a shortcut.
Read the full stage-by-stage guide
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