As of 19th April 2017, migrants can be nominated for visas by employers or State and Territory Governments if their occupations are included in a list which is a combined version of the STOL and MLTSSL. This combined list specifically excludes a few occupations that do appear on the stand-alone MLTSSL. Overall, this means that migrants in a large number of occupations can be granted visas through the process of nomination, which was also the case before the recent changes.
Nearly all engineering occupations are included on the combined list, except for the following: 233111 Chemical engineer 233112 Materials engineer 233411 Electronics engineer 233511 Industrial engineer 233513 Production or plant engineer 233612 Petroleum engineer. These six engineering occupations cannot be included in employer or State and Territory Government visa nominations. With the exception of 233612 Petroleum engineer they are, however, on the standalone MLTSSL, and migrants with these occupations can access visas for independent migrants such as the subclass 189 and subclass 485 (Graduate Work Stream) visas. The exclusion of these six engineering occupations from employer and State and Territory Government nominations will make almost no difference to the annual tally of migrant engineers who are granted visas. This is because visa nominations are insignificant compared with the number of visas granted to independent migrants, in particular those who access the subclass 189 permanent residence visa. Recently graduated international students are typically granted either the subclass 485 (Graduate Work Stream) visa or the subclass 485 (Post Study Work Stream) visa, the latter of which does not require an occupation to be listed on the STSOL or MLTSSL. Comments are closed.
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