Subclass 491 nomination only
To be eligible for nomination in this pathway Migration Tasmania must first contact you via SkillSelect and invite you to register your interest on the Migration Tasmania Gateway.
Minimum requirements
- Candidate have received an invitation through SkillSellect.
- You and any dependants must not have lived in another Australian state or territory within the past 12 months.
- If invited to apply for nomination, you must provide evidence of research into the Tasmanian job market. This may include:
- Networking with employers, HR representatives, or recruitment agencies (e.g., emails or LinkedIn messages and their responses).
- Communication with professional or industry associations relevant to your occupation. Contact details for these associations are available on the Business Tasmania website.
- You must also provide personal research into at least two relevant job vacancies in Tasmania, advertised no more than six months before your application.
- For each job vacancy, include a statement explaining how your qualifications, skills, and experience meet the job requirements.
- You must demonstrate access to sufficient financial assets to support yourself and your dependants for at least six months while seeking employment in Tasmania.
Please also read the additional information, exclusions and definitions and the frequently asked questions.
All Registrations of Interest for this pathway receive a Gold Pass and will be able to lodge an application for nomination immediately.
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.
- Invitation letter from Migration Tasmania received via SkillSelect.
- Evidence of Networking and Market Research:
- You are required to submit evidence of networking with 2 Tasmanian Employers or Recruitment Agencies.
- You must include the emails or messages you sent, as well as the responses you received.
- You may also include evidence of any online discussions or invitations you may have received.
- Automatic responses received after applying for jobs will not be considered as networking.
- You are not required to apply for jobs in Tasmania.
supporting documents
The following documents are not mandatory. Applicants can upload the following documents in support of those claims.
- Appointment of a registered migration agent legal practitioner or exempt person Form 956 (PDF): Required if application has been submitted by a Migration Agent.
- Adult dependant's passport bio-data page.
- Adult dependant's current resume.
- Dependant child/children passports bio-data pages.
- Evidence of marriage, dependant relationship if claiming to meet dependant-related priority attributes. Adult dependant must be included in Expression of Interest on SkillSelect.