Before you register your interest or apply for nomination, please ensure that you have read all relevant information for the pathway, including:
- Minimum requirements for nomination
- Priority attributes for the pathway
- Additional information, exclusions and definitions
- Required documents
Subclass 190 - Tasmanian Skilled Employment (TSE)
TSE Priority Occupation option
- You must have worked in Tasmania in a job closely related to your skills assessment. (a role within the same ANZSCO 3-digit group as your skills assessment) for:
- At least 9 months, or
- 6 months if your skills assessment is for a teaching occupation (and you are working in a school) or health or allied health occupation.
- Your skills assessment must be listed as a TSE Priority Occupation.
- Your employment must meet any additional occupational caveats listed for your occupation.
- Your employment must have averaged at least 20 hours per week.
- If self-employed or a contractor, you need:
- A relevant skills assessment, and
- 12 months of business activity in Tasmania.
TSE long-term employment option - all skills assessments eligible for this pathway
- You must have worked in Tasmania in a role closely related to your skills assessment for at least 15 months immediately before applying.
- Your employment must meet any occupational caveats listed for your occupation.
- If self-employed or a contractor, you need:
- A relevant skills assessment, and
- 12 months of business activity in Tasmania.
- Your occupation must be on the Home Affairs skilled occupation list for subclass 190.
For both options
- You must have worked an average of at least 20 hours per week over the qualifying period immediately before you lodge your application (the minimum employment duration required under your chosen option - 6, 9, or 15 months).
- You must currently be living in Tasmania and intend to continue living in Tasmania.
- Your salary must be at least $57,000 per year or $28.85 per hour which excludes overtime, penalties, bonuses or casual loading.
- Your dependents must not be living in another Australian state or territory. They must have moved and settled in Tasmania at least three months before applying for nomination.
- Your employment must be closely related to your skills assessment. This means a role within the same ANZSCO 3-digit group as your skills assessment. Refer to additional information, exclusions and definitions for guidance.
- You must genuinely intend to remain employed in Tasmania in your current industry for at least two years after nomination.
- If self-employed or a contractor, you need:
- a relevant skills assessment, and
- at least 12 months of business activity in Tasmania.
Employment and conditions
- Your employer must be a well-established business that has been actively operating in Tasmania for the past 12 months (unless longer caveats apply to your occupation).
- Your pay and conditions must be equal to or better than those for Australian citizens or permanent residents.
- There must be a genuine, ongoing need for your role (including a minimum 12-month contract with at least three months remaining at the time you apply for nomination).
- Casual employment is allowed but must comply with the Fair Work Ombudsman’s requirements.
The following attributes are used to rank Registrations of Interest. Only the most competitive candidates are invited to apply for nomination.
To qualify for gold, green or orange-plus priority attributes, your employment must meet the $57,000/year or $28.85/hour salary threshold (excluding overtime, penalty rates or casual loading).
Candidates with at least one orange-plus priority attribute are considered a high priority. After Gold and Green pass holders, they will be the first Orange pass candidates invited to apply for nomination.
GOLD | Points |
|---|---|
You have a skills assessment in health, allied health, or teaching, and have worked in a directly related job for the last six months, earning at least $57,000 per year (or a base rate of $28.85 per hour). | 1000 |
GREEN | Points |
|---|---|
You have been employed in Tasmania for the past two years in a role directly related to your skills assessment, earning at least $57,000 per year (or a base rate of $28.85 per hour). | 500 |
You have been employed in Tasmania for the past 18 months, but less than two years in a role directly related to your skills assessment, earning at least $57,000 per year (or a base rate of $28.85 per hour). | 300 |
ORANGE PLUS | Points |
|---|---|
Your employment has a base salary of at least $102,956 per year, or $52.10 per hour, and you have received this for at least the past 12 weeks. | 40 |
You have at least two years of Australian work experience in the same industry as your skills assessment, and currently earning at least $57,000 per year, or a base rate of $28.85 per hour. | 30 |
You have been employed in Tasmania for more the past 12 months, but less than 18 months, in a role directly related to your skills assessment, earning at least $57,000 per year (or a base rate of $28.85 per hour). | 30 |
ORANGE | Points |
|---|---|
Your employment has a base salary of at least $76,515 per year or $38.72 per hour but less than $102,956 per year, or $52.10 per hour, and you have received this for the past 12 weeks. | 15 |
Your employment has a base salary of at least $68,863 per year ($34.85 per hour) but less than $76,515 per year ($38.72 per hour), and you have received this for the last 12 weeks. | 10 |
You have been employed in Tasmania for more the past 9 months, but less than 12 months, in a role directly related to your skills assessment, earning at least $57,000 per year (or a base rate of $28.85 per hour). | 6 |
Your spouse has been employed in Tasmania for the past six months in a role that paid at least $57,000 per year, or a base hourly rate of $28.85. | 4 |
You have lived in Tasmania continuously for more than three years. | 2 |
You have Proficient / Superior English, or you have an exemption to the English language requirements based on your passport country. | 1 |
Your spouse has completed a minimum AQF Level 6 qualification through a Tasmanian education provider, undertaken in Tasmania. | 1 |
When applying for nomination, documentation must be supplied to support the claims made in the Registration of Interest (ROI) and application for nomination. If you do not supply these documents your application might be declined.
You must read and understand the minimum nomination requirements before preparing the documents listed below. In addition to the documents you upload with your application:
- Migration Tasmania may request additional documents or information. People or organisations listed in the application, including education providers, employers and real estate agents, may also be contacted to confirm the information you provide.
- After lodging the application, you can submit additional documents until the application has been assigned to a case officer, or after a case officer requests further information.
- All information you provide must be current, true and correct.
- Where documentation or information is found to be false or misleading, the application will be declined, and details are likely to be passed on to other relevant agencies such as the Department of Home Affairs.
- Skills assessments and English tests must be current at time of nomination. If they are not, the Department of Home Affairs may refuse the visa application.
Mandatory documents
- Passport (Bio-Data page).
- SkillSelect Expression of Interest (EOI) including the personal, educational or employment details referred to in the Registration of Interest and nomination application.
- Skills assessment issued by the relevant assessing body for your stated occupation. Must be dated within the last three years.
- English language report (English proficiency test result) dated within the last three years. If you hold a passport issued by the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, United States of America, or Republic of Ireland and do not need to complete an English language test for your skilled visa please attach a copy of your passport bio data page.
- Curriculum vitae (CV)/resume which includes all study and employment from the last 10 years.
- Travel itinerary to Tasmania demonstrated by airline or Spirit of Tasmania tickets showing date of permanent arrival in Tasmania.
- Evidence of living in Tasmania since permanent arrival, demonstrated by rental agreements or a statutory declaration listing all addresses and dates of stay since arrival in Tasmania (which also lists all household tenants).
- Bank statements that show spending on living expenses in Tasmania and any pay or salary deposits since the date you arrived. The statements must be on official bank letter head, clearly showing the account number and account holder’s name, and be free of highlighting or any other changes.
- Employment contract and employment confirmation letter signed and dated by the employer clearly outlining pay, conditions and position duties.
- Signed Employer Statutory Declaration form (PDF 754.8 KB).
- Pay slips covering the full duration of claimed employment.
- Australian Taxation Office (ATO) income statement for all employment claims.
- Superannuation Fund transaction statement for the period of any employment being claiming. The statements must clearly show all employer contributions be on official fund letter head, and clearly show the account number and account holder’s name.
- Evidence that your pay and conditions are consistent with local market rates. All employment must comply with the Fair Work Ombudsman’s National Employment Standards, with pay and conditions no less than those of Australian citizens or permanent residents in comparable roles, and consistent with current local market rates.
- This can be demonstrated by reference to the relevant enterprise agreement or industrial awards, including the applicable salary level, or if none applies, we will accept:
- job advertisements from the past six months for comparable positions in the same region on websites such as Seek, Indeed, CareerOne, and either:
- Salary survey data from Hays Guides or SmartMatch,
- Information from Jobs and Skills Australia’s Jobs and Skills Atlas
- Where no enterprise agreement or industrial award exists, the higher salary from the submitted job ads or the salary survey/market insights will be relied upon to determine the applicable market rate.
- This can be demonstrated by reference to the relevant enterprise agreement or industrial awards, including the applicable salary level, or if none applies, we will accept:
Additional supporting documents
The following documents are not mandatory but may help support claims. Applicants can upload the following documents in support of those claims.
- Evidence of sponsoring employer support: If currently holding a Temporary Skill Shortage or Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and worked less than 12 months with their Tasmanian-based sponsoring employer.
- Outstanding Tasmanian debts and payment plan summary: This is required if you have an outstanding debt that is signed and witnessed.
- Declaration of nomination obligations: Required if application has been submitted by a Migration Agent.
- Appointment of a registered migration agent legal practitioner or exempt person Form 956 (PDF): Required if application has been submitted by a Migration Agent.
- Personal statement that is a maximum one-page summary of your current situation and intentions. It is very important to include this where your ties to Tasmania are unclear, you have lived in another part of Australia for a more than 2 years before moving to Tasmania or your family members are overseas or have only recently joined you.
- Include the following points:
- Why do you want to live in Tasmania?
- What community support is available to help you settle?
- What career, business prospects or opportunities do you have in Tasmania?
- Which family members settling with you. Where are they? When did they arrive in Tasmania? Are they currently studying or working?
- If your spouse/partner or any dependents are currently overseas, explain why.
- If they have recently moved to Tasmania from another Australian state or territory, explain what they intend to do in Tasmania.
- Include the following points:
- Tasmanian drivers’ license.
- Evidence of job offers and interviews unless previously listed as required
- Adult dependant's passport bio-data page.
- Adult dependant's current resume.
- Dependant child/children passports bio-data pages.
- Adult dependant's skills assessment if available.
- Adult dependant's employment contract if claiming dependent employment priority attributes.
- Evidence of marriage, dependant relationship if claiming to meet dependant-related priority attributes. Adult dependant must be included in Expression of Interest on SkillSelect.
Subclass 491 - Tasmanian Skilled Employment (TSE)
If you are working in a role that pays at least $57,000 per year or $28.85 per hour (excluding overtime, penalties, bonuses or casual loading)
- You must have been working in Tasmania for at least nine months immediately before applying.
- You must have worked an average of at least 20 hours per week over the nine-month period immediately before you lodge your application.
- You must currently be living in Tasmania and intend to continue living in Tasmania.
- Your dependents must not be living in another Australian state or territory.
- If self-employed or a contractor, you need:
- a relevant skills assessment, and
- at least 12 months of business activity in Tasmania.
- If self-employed or a contractor, you need:
- There must be a genuine, ongoing need for your role (including a minimum 12-month contract with at least three months remaining at the time you apply for nomination).
- If your job is not related to your skills assessment, you must have relevant qualifications or experience aligned with the Occupational Standards Classification for Australia (OSCA) definition for the role.
- Your job does not need to match your skills assessment (unless you are self-employed or a contractor).
- You must genuinely intend to remain employed in Tasmania in your current industry for at least two years after nomination.
If you are working in a role that paid less than $57,000 per year or $28.85 per hour, but at least the National Minimum Wage :
- You must have worked in Tasmania for at least 12 months
- You must have worked an average 20 hours per week in the 12 months before you applied for nomination.
- You must currently be living in Tasmania and intend to continue living in Tasmania.
- Your dependents must not be living in another Australian state or territory.
- You must genuinely intend to remain employed in your current industry for at least two years after nomination.
- Your employer must provide a statement confirming severe recruitment difficulty, including efforts made to fill the role locally.
- If the role is not related to your skills assessment, you must have relevant qualifications or experience aligned with the OSCA definition for the role.
- Your employer must confirm in writing that there are genuine career advancement opportunities for you.
- If you are self-employed ort a subcontractor, you need
- a skills assessment directly related to the role or industry you are working in, and
- at least 12 months of business activity in Tasmania.
Employment and conditions
- Your employer must be a well-established business that has been actively operating in Tasmania for the past 12 months.
- Your wages and conditions must be no less favourable than those that would apply to an Australian citizen or permanent resident, and salary or wages are at least equivalent to the market salary rate.
- There must be a genuine, ongoing need for your position within the business (including a minimum 12-month contract with at least three months remaining at the time you apply for nomination). The contract may be casual, but must comply with the Fair Work Ombudsman’s National Employment Standards.
The following attributes are used to rank Registrations of Interest. Only the most competitive candidates are invited to apply for nomination.
To qualify for gold, green or orange-plus priority attributes, your employment must meet the $57,000/year or $28.85/hour salary threshold (excluding overtime, penalty rates or casual loading).
Candidates with at least one orange-plus priority attribute are considered a high priority. After Gold and Green pass holders, they will be the first Orange pass candidates invited to apply for nomination.
GOLD | Points |
|---|---|
You have a skills assessment in health, allied health, or teaching, and have worked in a directly related job for the last six months, earning at least $57,000 per year (or a base rate of $28.85 per hour). | 1000 |
GREEN | Points |
|---|---|
You have been employed in Tasmania for the past two years in a role directly related to your skills assessment, earning at least $57,000 per year (or a base rate of $28.85 per hour). | 500 |
You have been employed in Tasmania for the past 18 months, but less than two years in a role directly related to your skills assessment, earning at least $57,000 per year (or a base rate of $28.85 per hour). | 300 |
ORANGE PLUS | Points |
|---|---|
Your employment has a base salary of at least $102,956 per year, or $52.10 per hour, and you have received this for at least the past 12 weeks. | 40 |
You have been employed in Tasmania for the past 18 months in a role not directly related to your skills assessment, earning at least $57,000 per year (or a base rate of $28.85 per hour). | 35 |
You have at least two years of Australian work experience in the same industry as, but not directly related to your skills assessment, and currently earning at least $57,000 per year, or a base rate of $28.85 per hour. | 30 |
You have been employed in Tasmania for more than the past 12 months, but less than 18 months, in a role directly related to your skills assessment, earning at least $57,000 per year (or a base rate of $28.85 per hour). | 30 |
ORANGE | Points |
|---|---|
Your employment has a base salary of at least $76,515 per year or $38.72 per hour but less than $102,956 per year, or $52.10 per hour, and you have received this for the past 12 weeks. | 15 |
Your employment has a base salary of at least $68,863 per year ($34.85 per hour) but less than $76,515 per year ($38.72 per hour), and you have received this for the last 12 weeks. | 10 |
Your current role is not directly aligned with your skills assessment, you have two years of relevant prior Australian industry experience, and you currently receive a base salary of at least $57,000 per year (or $28.85 per hour). | 6 |
You have been employed in Tasmania for the past 12 months in a role that is not directly related to your skills assessment but is in the same industry area and you are paid at least $57,000 per year / base rate of $28.85 per hour. | 6 |
You are employed in in a role that paid more than the National Minimum Wage, but less than $57,000 per year (or $28.85 per hour), and you hold a skills assessment related to this role. | 4 |
Your spouse has been employed in Tasmania for the past six months in a role that paid at least $57,000 per year, or a base hourly rate of $28.85. | 4 |
You are employed in a role that pays more than the National Minimum Wage, but less than $57,000 per year (or $28.85 per hour), and you hold a qualification related to this role (minimum Certificate III, not including online courses or qualifications gained on the basis of Recognition of Prior Learning). | 2 |
You have lived in Tasmania continuously for more than three years. | 2 |
You speak Proficient / Superior English, or you have an exemption to the English language requirements based on your passport country. | 1 |
Your spouse has completed a minimum AQF Level 6 qualification through a Tasmanian education provider, undertaken in Tasmania. | 1 |
When applying for nomination, documentation must be supplied to support the claims made in the Registration of Interest (ROI) and application for nomination. If you do not supply these documents your application might be declined.
You must read and understand the minimum nomination requirements before preparing the documents listed below. In addition to the documents you upload with your application:
- Migration Tasmania may request additional documents or information. People or organisations listed in the application, including education providers, employers and real estate agents, may also be contacted to confirm the information you provide.
- After lodging the application, you can submit additional documents until the application has been assigned to a case officer, or after a case officer requests further information.
- All information you provide must be current, true and correct.
- Where documentation or information is found to be false or misleading, the application will be declined, and details are likely to be passed on to other relevant agencies such as the Department of Home Affairs.
- Skills assessments and English tests must be current at time of nomination. If they are not, the Department of Home Affairs may refuse the visa application.
Mandatory documents
- Passport (Bio-Data page).
- SkillSelect Expression of Interest (EOI) including the personal, educational or employment details referred to in the Registration of Interest and nomination application.
- Skills assessment issued by the relevant assessing body for your stated occupation. Must be dated within the last three years.
- English language report (English proficiency test result) dated within the last three years. If you hold a passport issued by the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, United States of America, or Republic of Ireland and do not need to complete an English language test for your skilled visa please attach a copy of your passport bio data page.
- Curriculum vitae (CV)/resume which includes all study and employment from the last 10 years.
- Travel itinerary to Tasmania demonstrated by airline or Spirit of Tasmania tickets showing date of permanent arrival in Tasmania.
- Evidence of living in Tasmania since permanent arrival, demonstrated by rental agreements or a statutory declaration listing all addresses and dates of stay since arrival in Tasmania (which also lists all household tenants).
- Bank statements that show spending on living expenses in Tasmania and any pay or salary deposits since the date you arrived. The statements must be on official bank letter head, clearly showing the account number and account holder’s name, and be free of highlighting or any other changes.
Pathway specific documents
- Employment contract and employment confirmation letter signed and dated by the employer clearly outlining pay, conditions and position duties.
- Signed Employer Statutory Declaration form Employer Statutory Declaration (PDF 754.8 KB).
- Pay slips covering the full duration of claimed employment.
- Australian Taxation Office (ATO) income statement for all employment claims.
- Superannuation Fund transaction statement for the period of any employment being claiming. The statements must clearly show all employer contributions be on official fund letter head, and clearly show the account number and account holder’s name.
- Evidence of career opportunities if working in a role that pays more than the National Minimum Wage but less than $57,000 per year or $28.85 per hour - must be endorsed by your employer
- Evidence of any other educational qualifications achieved in Australia or overseas including academic transcript(s) and completion letter(s).
- Evidence that your pay and conditions are consistent with local market rates. All employment must comply with the Fair Work Ombudsman’s National Employment Standards, with pay and conditions no less than those of Australian citizens or permanent residents in comparable roles, and consistent with current local market rates.
This can be demonstrated by reference to the relevant enterprise agreement or industrial awards, including the applicable salary level, or if none applies, we will accept:
- job advertisements from the past six months for comparable positions in the same region on websites such as Seek, Indeed, CareerOne, and either:
- Salary survey data from Hays Guides or SmartMatch,
- Information from Jobs and Skills Australia’s Jobs and Skills Atlas
Where no enterprise agreement or industrial award exists, the higher salary from the submitted job ads or the salary survey/market insights will be relied upon to determine the applicable market rate.
Additional supporting documents
The following documents are not mandatory but may help support claims. Applicants can upload the following documents in support of those claims.
- Evidence of sponsoring employer support: If currently holding a Temporary Skill Shortage or Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and worked less than 12 months with their Tasmanian-based sponsoring employer.
- Outstanding Tasmanian debts and payment plan summary: This is required if you have an outstanding debt that is signed and witnessed.
- Declaration of nomination obligations: Required if application has been submitted by a Migration Agent.
- Appointment of a registered migration agent legal practitioner or exempt person Form 956 (PDF): Required if application has been submitted by a Migration Agent.
- Personal statement that is a maximum one-page summary of your current situation and intentions. It is very important to include this where your ties to Tasmania are unclear, you have lived in another part of Australia for a more than 2 years before moving to Tasmania or your family members are overseas or have only recently joined you.
- Include the following points:
- Why do you want to live in Tasmania?
- What community support is available to help you settle?
- What career, business prospects or opportunities do you have in Tasmania?
- Which family members settling with you. Where are they? When did they arrive in Tasmania? Are they currently studying or working?
- If your spouse/partner or any dependents are currently overseas, explain why.
- If they have recently moved to Tasmania from another Australian state or territory, explain what they intend to do in Tasmania.
- Tasmanian drivers’ license.
- Evidence of job offers and interviews unless previously listed as required
- Adult dependant's passport bio-data page.
- Adult dependant's current resume.
- Dependant child/children passports bio-data pages.
- Adult dependant's skills assessment if available.
- Adult dependant's employment contract if claiming dependent employment priority attributes.
- Evidence of marriage, dependant relationship if claiming to meet dependant-related priority attributes. Adult dependant must be included in Expression of Interest on SkillSelect.