The Department of Home Affairs have released information on 21 October 2020 under Freedom of Information request (FOI) providing information on Student visa (subclass 500) applications lodged between 01/01/2019 and 30/09/2019 and 01/01/2020 and 30/09/2020, where applicant location in Australia and outside Australia.
According to the information, the following number of 500 visa applications were lodged during the above periods:
| Status | Jan 2020 | Feb 2020 | Mar 2020 | Apr 2020 | May 2020 | Jun 2020 | Jul 2020 | Aug 2020 | Sep 2020 |
| Visa Applications (Client Within Australia) | 13,670 | 19,471 | 32,164 | 11,493 | 11,674 | 12,020 | 15,169 | 23,756 | 16,628 |
| Visa Applications (Client Outside Australia) | 30,412 | 18,264 | 9,307 | 2,552 | 3,354 | 4,062 | 4,446 | 5,873 | 6,596 |
| Total | 44,082 | 37,735 | 41,471 | 14,045 | 15,028 | 16,082 | 19,615 | 29,629 | 23,224 |
| Status | Jan 2019 | Feb 2019 | Mar 2019 | Apr 2019 | May 2019 | Jun 2019 | Jul 2019 | Aug 2019 | Sep 2019 |
| Visa Applications (Client Within Australia) | 12,373 | 19,562 | 30,061 | 12,008 | 13,110 | 12,399 | 16,114 | 26,227 | 19,298 |
| Visa Applications (Client Outside Australia) | 34,450 | 22,809 | 16,077 | 17,311 | 28,460 | 34,015 | 25,152 | 16,456 | 15,961 |
| Total | 46,823 | 42,371 | 46,138 | 29,319 | 41,570 | 46,414 | 41,266 | 42,683 | 35,259 |
The statistics include figures for both primary applicants and secondary applicants.
