Frequently Asked Questions


General questions

  • No, meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee that you will be offered Tasmanian nomination.
  • Meeting the minimum nomination requirements only allows you to register your interest in nomination in the Migration Tasmania Gateway.
  • Applicants will also need to demonstrate that they have Priority Attributes relevant to a particular nomination pathway.
  • The Migration Tasmania Gateway will rank you according to the information provided in the registration of interest and the Priority Attributes you hold.
  • The most competitive applicants will be invited to lodge an application for nomination.
  • If the information you provided is true and correct, and you can provide information and documents with your application to demonstrate this, you can be confident that your application will be approved.
  • No, the Gateway system will only allow you to submit one registration of interest at a time.
  • You only need to register once and if you are invited to apply for nomination you will be considered against the requirements of all pathways.
  • If you are not invited to apply for nomination and your registration expires, you may register again.
  • No, you must be able to meet the minimum requirements for nomination.
  • While your occupation does not need to be on the TOSOL to be eligible under the program all applicants must nominate an occupation listed on the Department of Home Affairs list of eligible skilled occupations.
  • The TOSOL is used to determine eligibility for subclass 190 nomination in the Tasmanian Skilled Employment (TOSOL option) nomination pathway and to prioritise registrations of interest in the Migration Tasmania Gateway.
  • No. The caveats and notes only apply to the 190 Tasmanian Skilled Employment (TSE) (TOSOL option) pathway. The 190 TSE (Long-term employment option) pathway has occupational caveats that only apply to that pathway.
  • Note that other pathways do not have the TOSOL caveats.
  • Some priority attributes refer to employment that is directly related to your skills assessment, whereas others may recognise post graduate employment in the same industry.
  • For employment to be related to your skills assessment, the role must be consistent with ANZSCO Skill Levels 1-3 and be in the same four-digit group as the skills assessment. A candidate with a skills assessment for Analyst Programmer (261311) could work in any of the occupations included the 2613 Software and Applications Programmers group, such as Cyber Security Engineer (261315) or Software Engineer (261313).
  • Where the employment or business is required to be in the same industry as the skills assessment or study area (but not directly related), as a general guide this should be within a related Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) Division or Class, as long as the ANZSIC description of that industry includes activities that are relevant to the candidate’s study or skills assessed occupation.
  • For example, an Accountant could be working in any activity listed in Class 6932 Accounting Services, such as accounting , auditing, bookkeeping or tax agents services, or they could be working in an industry in Division K – Financial and Insurance Services, such as Banking, Financial Asset Investing or General Insurance.
  • If you are currently living in Tasmania, your dependent family members may be living overseas but must not be living in another part of Australia.
  • If your family are living with you in in Tasmania after relocating from another state or territory, they must have moved to Tasmania at least three months before you apply for nomination.
  • Yes, short visits or holidays that do not involve a long-term residential address are not considered “living in another state or territory”.
  • However, numerous regular visits to the same location may cast doubt on your intention to settle in Tasmania, especially if the visits are to your previous place of residence.
  • If your skilled visa has already been granted you should contact the Department of Affairs if you are unsure of your visa conditions.

Priority attributes

  • No, you don’t have to meet the priority attributes for your pathway.
  • You must meet the minimum nomination requirements for your chosen pathway to register your interest and be considered for nomination.
  • The priority attributes for each pathway are not required, but they will make you more competitive for a limited number of nominations.
  • The more of the attributes you have, the better your chances of nomination and the sooner you may be invited to apply for nomination.
  • You can claim the attribute if you are not currently working in the area related to your skills assessment or study. If you are employed in one of those areas, you are not able to claim this priority attribute.
  • No. You must meet the minimum eligibility requirements for your pathway. Having the gold attribute will, however, allow you to lodge an application for nomination without waiting for an invitation.
  • No, employment must average at least 20 hours per week to qualify for the gold and green priority attributes.
  • If you are applying in the Tasmanian Skilled Graduate pathways employment can be a minimum nine hours per week during term time to qualify for orange priority attributes.
  • No, all employment must be skilled (ANZSCO 1-3) to qualify for the gold or green priority attributes. ANZSCO 4 or 5 employment will qualify for orange priority attributes.
  • For example, a Diploma of Logistics graduate working as warehouse pick-packer would meet the orange priority attribute “Employed in Tasmania for at least the last six weeks in the same industry as your skills assessment or Tasmanian study”. However, it would not qualify for green or gold priority attributes.
  • Yes, you can register your interest in nomination if you meet the minimum nomination requirements for your chosen pathway.
  • However, if you do not have any priority attributes, you will only be invited to apply for nomination if there are enough places available. The candidates with the largest number of priority attributes will be invited first.

Skilled Graduate

  • If you are a graduate enrolled in a number of courses packaged together, this may be acceptable. Enrolment in all courses must have occurred at the same time as issuing of Confirmations of Enrolment.  There must be no break between courses other than standard term breaks. There must also be a genuine progression between all courses in the package.
  • An example may be a Graduate Certificate in Public Policy followed by a Graduate Diploma in Public Policy, or Certificate III followed by Certificate IV in Commercial Cookery.
  • It would not meet the requirement where a graduate completed and graduated from a Diploma of Leadership and Management, then separately enrolled in and completed an Advanced Diploma of Leadership and Management.
  • Note that graduates who have lived in Tasmania for 3 years may be eligible for subclass 190 nomination in the Tasmanian Established Resident Pathway.
  • Yes. The published requirements apply to all registrations and applications for nomination made after 30 June 2022.
  • Some candidates may be eligible for either subclass 491 or 190 nomination in the Tasmanian Established Resident pathways after living in Tasmania for two years.
  • No, the employment must be in an ANZSCO 1-3 role to meet the green priority attribute.
  • Lower skilled roles may meet the orange attribute requirements of work in the same industry as Tasmanian study and related to qualification.
  • No, to be eligible for subclass 190 nomination in the Tasmanian Skilled Graduate pathway you must have lived and studied in Tasmania for at least two years.
  • Your study must have been full-time and on campus.
  • You may be eligible for subclass 190 nomination in the Tasmanian Skilled Employment pathway if you have a skills assessment for an occupation on the Tasmanian Onshore Skilled Occupation List and have worked in a directly related role for at least the last six months.
  • This is study that is at least 75 per cent of a 100 per cent full time study load in each semester. It does not include online or distance education. VET courses must involve at least 15 scheduled contact hours per week unless otherwise specified by the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA).
  • Contact hour delivery may be small group tutorials as long as it meets the minimum hours required of the course.
  • If your course was registered for on campus delivery but moved to online delivery as result of COVID-19 health directions it will be accepted.
  • However, online study completed after 31 July 2022 will not be recognised unless it was due to a Tasmanian Government health direction, or due to a serious medical condition requiring a medical exemption. You will need to supply supporting evidence of this with your application.
  • Classes may be tutorial based but must meet the full-time requirement (generally 20 hours per week).
  • If you have spent a large period of time since graduation in another state or territory it may be difficult for you to demonstrate your genuine intention to live, work and contribute to Tasmania in the long term.
  • In this case, you will have to show that you have a strong incentive to stay through personal, employment or other long-term commitments.
  • A Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE) is required for all courses of study which were enrolled in after 30 July 2022 and the applicant held a Student visa.
  • Non CoE verification is only acceptable where an applicant did not hold a Student visa during their study.
  • You must provide evidence of your PhD enrolment, as well other information including:
    • confirmation from your university that you completed two years of your PhD
    • communication related to your PhD research
    • scholarship/stipend evidence
    • bank statements showing receipt of your stipend/scholarship funds.
  • Yes, short periods of holiday travel during study breaks are acceptable.
  • Travel during semesters or extended periods outside Tasmania will need to be explained and supported with evidence as would any travel at times of known COVID-19 lockdowns or border closures.

Business Owner

  • You can provide evidence showing that you are drawing a wage from the business. This could include payslips (including corresponding bank account deposits), BAS and Profit and Loss statements as evidence. If you are not drawing a wage from the business, your profit margin would need to be enough to meet the requirement.
  • No, unless jointly owned with your spouse businesses operating in partnership are not eligible to meet the minimum requirements in the Tasmanian Business Operator or Tasmanian Established Resident pathways.
  • If you enter into an employment relationship with the business you may be eligible through the Tasmanian Skilled Employment of Tasmanian Skilled Graduate pathways.

Skilled Employment

  • No, all applicants must have a skills assessment for a subclass 190 visa eligible occupation to be nominated for subclass 190 Skilled Nominated visa. Details of these occupations can be found on the Department of Home Affairs website.
  • If lodging a TOSOL option 190 ROI, an applicant who holds a skills assessment for “342411 Cabler” may be working in any role in the 3424 Telecommunications Trades Workers group. This could involve working as a “342414 Telecommunications Technician” to meet the subclass 190 nomination requirement, even though there is no skills assessment for that particular role. They must however have a skills assessment for one of the occupations in that same group.
  • Yes, the minimum requirement for the Tasmanian Skilled Employment pathway is 20 hours work per week regardless of current visa.
  • No, your employment must have averaged at least 20 hours per week over a six-month period (or three months if applying for subclass 491 nomination and you have a TOSOL-listed occupation and employment role).
  • If you apply for nomination in the Tasmanian Skilled Graduate pathway, employment of at least nine hours per week will be recognised in relation to meeting priority attributes for that pathway.
  • No, applicants must the minimum requirements for nomination.
  • You may be eligible for subclass 491 nomination after working for three months if you have a skills assessment and related work included in the Tasmanian Onshore Skilled Occupation List.
  • Yes, if you co-own your business with someone other than your spouse, and have a skills assessment related to your business, you may be eligible in the TSE pathway after 12 months of business operation.
  • If your skills assessment is not related to your business, you may qualify for the Tasmanian Business Operator pathway.
  • No, while we do not recognise qualifications gained through online courses or Recognition of Prior Learning, your Chef skills assessment would meet the nomination requirement.
  • For ANZSCO 4-5 roles, you must have either a Certificate III qualification related to your role or at least 12 months experience, whichever is relevant to your occupation on ANZSCO. For example, if you have worked for 12 months as an aged and individual support worker, delivery driver, housekeeping attendant or dairy cattle farm worker, you will meet this minimum requirement without having a Certificate III.
  • Where ANZSCO does not list a qualification or experience for an occupation Migration Tasmania requires you to have a related AQF Certificate III qualification or one year of relevant Australian experience.

Established Resident

  • Yes, for subclass 190 nomination eligibility you need to have been employed at any ANZSCO Skill Level for at least 18 months in the past three years, or 12 out of 18 months for subclass 491.

Overseas

  • You may be eligible. Short visits that do not involve a long-term residential address are not considered “living in another state or territory”.
  • Yes, if you are/were only a short-term visitor and your visa does/did not allow employment you may register interest if you meet the other minimum nomination requirements. We may ask you for more information to show that you have not been living and working in Australia.
  • There is no guarantee that you will be contacted and / or invited to apply for nomination.
  • We periodically screen EOIs in SkillSelect and will contact only those who most closely fit the skills needs profiles outlined in the Overseas Skilled Occupation Profiles (PDF 232.1 KB).

Process

  • When you register in the Gateway, depending upon your priority attributes you have, you will be given a Gold, Green or Orange Pass, which will indicate your priority status. If you receive a Gold Pass you will immediately be able to apply for nomination. If you receive a Green Pass we aim to invite you to apply within the next eight weeks. If you are given an Orange Pass you may be invited to apply for nomination within the next six months, depending upon the volume of interest we have received and how many of the priority attributes you have. If you are not invited to apply within six months your registration will expire, and you will need to complete a new registration in the Gateway to be considered for a nomination invitation. If your registration does expire, you will receive an automatic email notifying you of the expiry.
  • We will not provide further information about your Gateway ranking or the likelihood of receiving an invitation.
  • No, we will not prioritise based on personal circumstances. This includes imminent visa, skills assessment or language test expiry dates or critical birthdays which may affect your score on the Department of Home Affairs skilled migration points test.
  • You can explore additional visa options by contacting the Department of Home Affairs and/or a registered migration agent or lawyer.
  • You can only have one active ROI at any time.
  • If you want to change anything on your ROI, you will need to log in to the gateway and withdraw this ROI and then create a new ROI including the new information. This will not change the time you can expect to wait for an invitation.
  • Your application for state nomination and application for a visa are two separate processes.
  • The Tasmanian Government assesses your application for state nomination and the Australian Government Department of Home Affairs assesses your visa application.
  • Applications for nomination are processed in order of lodgement. We aim to process all applications for nomination within six weeks of lodgement.
  • Current processing times for Tasmanian nomination are in the Latest News section of the Migration Tasmania website.
  • Processing times can be affected by the completeness of your application. To avoid delays you should provide all required information when you lodge your application. Other factors that impact on processing times include changes in application volumes, seasonal peaks, and complex cases.
  • Visa processing timeframes are posted on the Department of Home Affairs website.
  • After you apply for nomination you can update your application at any time before the application is assigned to a case officer for processing by logging in to your Migration Tasmania Application Gateway account.
  • After your case has been assigned you can send new information and documents to Migration Tasmania by email to skilled@migration.tas.gov.au.
  • Your application for state nomination and application for the visa are two separate processes. The Tasmanian Government assesses your application for state nomination and the Australian Government Department of Home Affairs assesses your visa application.
  • The Department of Home Affairs publishes current visa processing times on its website.
  • No, we do not offer multiple nominations. If you have a subclass 489 or 491 visa and wish to become a permanent resident, your options are through the subclass 887/191 visa pathways.
  • Every nomination place comes from the limited quota of nomination places allocated by the Department of Home Affairs, even if it is for the same person. A renomination will use up another place, even if you have not accepted your application to lodge a visa application.
  • You may wish to contact us if there has been an error made on your EOI, however:
    • while we endeavour to accommodate applicants with this, we are under no obligation to re-nominate
    • it is the responsibility of you and/or your agent to ensure all application details are true and correct prior to lodgement.
  • Yes, but as a Tasmanian nominee you agreed to make reasonable efforts to work and live in Tasmania for at least two years after your nomination was approved, or after you arrived in Tasmania if your nomination was approved when you were overseas. However, any decision to move interstate is yours.
  • We do not provide waiver or release letters and cannot enter discussions about your request to move interstate.
  • The Tasmanian Government is not permitted to provide migration advice or an indication of your future visa or Australian Citizenship pathways.
  • Please contact the Department of Home Affairs, a migration agent or a registered lawyer if you need further information in relation to your visa conditions.
  • You have 60 days to apply for your visa from the time you receive your invitation from SkillSelect.
  • If your visa application was refused or you did not lodge a visa application within the sixty day timeframe and you would like to be nominated again, you will need to register again in the Migration Tasmania Gateway. If invited to apply for nomination you will need to explain why you were unable to lodge your visa application / or why your visa was refused.
  • We cannot guarantee that we will provide a further nomination.
  • If your application for Tasmanian nomination is declined, we will tell you why you were unsuccessful. You can ask us to reconsider this decision if a substantial error was made by the case officer.
  • We will not review a decision where an applicant did not provide adequate information or provided incorrect information on the application.
  • We also will not review a decision considering new information that was not provided in the original application or before the application was decided.
  • A request for reconsideration must be in writing, explaining why you believe the decision is wrong. Remember, you cannot provide any new documents to support your request.
  • If we agree to reconsider the decision, we will only re-assess the original documents attached to the application.
  • If you have new information or documents that were not included in the original application, you may lodge a new registration of interest for state nomination in the Migration Tasmania Gateway. However, you would be unlikely to be offered nomination if you are unable to address the reasons your nomination was not approved.
  • We take allegations of fraud seriously.
  • To help us investigate please email skilled@migration.tas.gov.au and provide as much information as possible, including the name and date of birth of the person involved.
  • Please note that due to privacy considerations we cannot provide details or outcomes of our investigations.
  • If reporting an alleged fraud, your name or identifying information will not be released or provided to the person against whom you make an allegation.

This page was last updated on 23 January 2023