看来下原文,新政下Offshore申请应该不会采用抽选制

看了指南针兄台的帖子，（http://www.aobo.com.au/thread-168470-1-2.html）大气都不敢出了，因为这句话

3.offshore 申请以后变成抽选制，同新西兰，所有高于某一分数的都进pool, 政府再设定规则从中挑选。在pool中申请两年有效。

此话一出，基本就是说你能不能选上完全由天定，等几年很可能白等

立刻看了Discussion Paper 原文，似乎有点出入，来讨论下：

Applicants for an offshore GSM visa may be placed in a ‘pool’ if the total of their points is not sufficient to meet the pass mark but meets the pool mark.  If the pass mark is lowered by the Minister over the following two years, applicants in the pool can be granted a GSM visa if they meet the revised pass mark.  Applicants remain in the pool for two years before their application is refused.  As the GSM pass mark has not fallen in recent years, the result has been that large numbers of overseas applicants have simply remained in the pool for two years before being
refused.

原文大意就是如果你没有达到pass mark但是达到了pool mark，那你就需要入pool，进了pool可以等两年，如果两年里政府降低了pass mark，而你又正好达到了，则哥直接给你发visa，如果没有就被拒。pool mark基本就是pass mark减20分，比如现在176的pass mark是100，那pool mark就是80。

也就是说我们可以按照字面意思推断出两点：

1。应该没有抽选一说，因为达到pass mark的就排序，没有达到pass mark的就进pool等政策改变（当然，原文也说了，这两年来都没有变过 =。=）
原文：Applicants for an offshore GSM visa may be placed in a ‘pool’ if the total of their points is not sufficient to meet the pass mark but meets the pool mark.

2。过了Pass Mark应该就有很大胜算拿Visa（因为Pool里面那些孩子如果达分了都能拿，那一开始就达分的没理由不给）  
原文：applicants in the pool can be granted a GSM visa if they meet the revised pass mark

应该是PASS就排队，POOL就等咯

Pool基本上不用理会 进去了也得靠自己出来

就算是PASS的也未必等到啦