To be considered for this pathway applicants must meet all the criteria below.
If applicants do not meet the required points for the subclass 190 Skilled Migration Points Test, or if their occupation is only eligible for the subclass 491 Skilled Work Regional visa, they may be nominated for subclass 491.
Minimum requirements
- You must have a health, allied health or education related skills assessment for an occupation in one of the 3-digit ANZSCO groups below.
- You must have a formal job offer for a job in Tasmania that is closely related to your skills assessed occupation. This means a role within the same ANZSCO 3-digit group as your skills assessment.
- Job offers for School Teachers must be for position in a Tasmanian school.
- You, or any of your dependents must not have lived in another Australian state or territory within the last 12 months.
- Your employer must be a well-established business that has been operating in Tasmania for at least the past 12 months.
- Receive wages and conditions equal to or better than those offered to Australian citizens or permanent residents and at least match local market rates.
- There must be a genuine and ongoing need for your role and the capacity for the business to sustain your employment.
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.
Occupations eligible for this pathway
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.
- Formal letter of offer signed and dated by a Tasmanian employer which outlines your pay and conditions of employment.
- Recruitment evidence in the form of the position advertisement including copies of the full advertisement that show date of advert and location.
- Please Note: Website links to the advertisement are not sufficient.
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.