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State nomination requirements differs in different states. In this article, we are going to talk about the state nomination requirements of Tasmania.
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2022 – 2023 Queensland State Nomination
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2022 – 2023 Western Australia State Nomination
2022 – 2023 ACT State Nomination
2022 – 2023 NT State Nomination
2022 – 2023 Victoria State Nomination
2022 – 2023 NSW State Nomination
You can obtain permanent permanency in Tasmania through 3 different streams in both visa subclass 190 and 491.
Visa subclass 190 minimum criteria
- You must work in an occupation listed on Tasmanian Onshore Skilled Occupation List (TOSOL)
- You must have been working in Tasmania for 6 months immediately prior to your application, with at least 20 hours per week
- You are currently living in Tasmania and intend to stay in Tasmania
- You must have a minimum 12 months contract with at least 3 months remaining at the time of application
- Your employer have been actively operating in Tasmania for the past 12 months
- Your wages are equivalent to the market salary rate
Priority Attributes
- Your have skills assessment and related employment included in the Critical Roles list for at least the past 3 months
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the last 6 months in an area directly related to your skills assessment
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the last 2 years in a role directly related to your skills assessment
- You have at least two years prior Australian experience in a skilled role (ANZSCO Skill Level 1-3) in the same industry as your skills assessment
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $90 617 per year or $42.62 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loading)
- You have a qualification related to the current employment role
- You have lived in Tasmania for at least the past 2 years
- You have Proficient or Superior English, or you have an exemption to the English language requirements based on your passport country
- Your spouse is working in a skilled role (ANZSCO 1-3) or running a business in Tasmania for the past 6 months
- Your spouse has completed a minimum AQF 6 Tasmanian study
- Your spouse has lived in Tasmania for at least 6 months
- Your close family is living in Tasmania
- You must have completed a CRICOS-registered course from a tertiary institution in Tasmania and obtained a letter of completion. It must have been completed full-time and on-site.
- You must have lived in Tasmania for at least 2 years from the commencement of your course and for the duration of your studies
- Your course must be at least AQF5 or higher, or Cert III if it is related to ANZSCO Major Group 3 / Group 4 occupation
- You must be living in Tasmania and intend to stay in Tasmania
Tasmanian PhD candidates who have not completed an undergraduate degree in Tasmania are eligible in this pathway after living in Tasmania and completing at least two years of their PhD discipline in Tasmania.
Priority Attributes
- You have a skills assessment and directly related employment for at least the past 3 months included in the critical roles list
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the last 6 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role directly related to your skills assessment
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the last 2 years in an ANZSCO 1-3 role directly related to your skills assessment
- You have completed 2 years of your PhD in Tasmania
- You have been employed in an ANZSCO 1-3 in Tasmania for at least the last 3 months directly related to your skills assessment or Tasmanian study
- You have operated a Tasmanian business for at least 6 months which is directly related to your skills assessment or area of study
- You have an offer for a graduate employment program. (Must be full-time, received before graduation, related to your skills assessment and be from a medium or large* Tasmanian business that has been operating in Tasmania for more than 5 years. *A medium to large business is one with at least 20 employees (e.g. Deloitte, Taswater)
- You are employed in Tasmania for at least the last 6 weeks in the same industry as your skills assessment or Tasmanian study
- You are employed in Tasmania for at least the last 3 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role which is not related to your skills assessment
- If you are employed in ANZSCO 4-5 role, you should have qualification related to this role (minimum Certificate III)
- Your salary exceeds $53,900 per year / $27.64 per hour
- Your salary exceeds $62,000 per year / $31.79 per hour
- Your salary exceeds the Australian average ( $90,617 / $42.62 for 2022-2023 program)
- You have evidence of job interviews in Tasmania related to your skills assessment or study with at least 2 well-established businesses that have been operating in Tasmania for at least 3 years
- You completed an in-course work placement of at least 400 hours
- Your Tasmanian study is directly related to occupation on critical roles list
- You commenced PhD after completing undergraduate study in Tasmania
- You have lived in Tasmania for over 4 years
- You have not lived or studied in another part of Australia
- You have Proficient / Superior English
- Your spouse is employed in skilled role (ANZSCO 1-3) or running a business for the past 6 months
- Your spouse completed minimum AQF 6 Tasmanian study
- Your spouse has lived in Tasmania for at least 6 months
- You have close family living in Tasmania including siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins or grandparents.
- You must have been living in Tasmania for at least two years (with no more than 50 per cent of your total Australian residence period spent in another Australian state or territory), and one of the following:
- You are currently employed in Tasmania in a role equivalent to ANZSCO Skill Levels 1-3, including a cumulative 12 out of the last 24 months, (a minimum 20 hours per week on average)
- You are currently employed in Tasmania, including a cumulative 18 months in the last 3 years, in a role equivalent to ANZSCO Skill Level 4 or 5 (a minimum 20 hours per week on average)
- You have operated a business for at least the last two years with taxable earnings equivalent to the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold (currently $53,900)
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Priority Attributes
- You have a skills assessment and directly related employment for at least the past 3 months included in the critical roles list
- You have been employed in Tasmanian for at least the last 3 months in a TOSOL -listed role related to your skills assessment
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the last 2 years in a skilled role (ANZSCO 1-3) directly related to skills assessment
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the past 3 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role directly related to your skills assessment
- You have a skills assessment which is directly related to your current business operation
- You have invested more than $200 000 into your current business operation
- Your business has generated more than $500 000 in past year
- Your business employs more than 10 local Australian citizens or permanent or provisional visa holders
- You are currently employed in a skilled role (ANZSCO 1-3) directly related to your skills assessment and you have two years prior Australian industry experience relevant to your current employment
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $90 617 per year or $42.62 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loading)
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the past 3 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role in the same industry as your skills assessment
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the past 12 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role which is not related to your skills assessment
- You are currently employed in a skilled role (ANZSCO 1-3) which is not directly related to your skills assessment and you have two years prior Australian industry experience relevant to your current employment
- You have a qualification related to your current role (minimum Certificate III. Does not include qualifications gained through online study or on the basis of recognition of prior learning)
- You have operated your business in Tasmania for at least the last 2 years
- Your current employer has been operating in Tasmania for at least 5 years
- You have resided in Tasmania continuously for more than 4 years
- You have resided in Tasmania continuously for more than 5 years
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $53 900 per year or 27.64 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loadings)
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $62 000 per year or $31.79 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loading)
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $90 617 per year or $42.62 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loading)
- You speak Proficient / Superior English, or you have an exemption to the English language requirements based on your passport country
- Your spouse is employed in a skilled role (ANZSCO 1-3) or has been running a business in Tasmania for the past 6 months
- Your spouse has completed a minimum AQF 6 qualification with a Tasmanian education provider in Tasmania
- Your spouse has lived in Tasmania for at least the last 6 months
- You have close family living in Tasmania including siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins or grandparents
Visa subclass 491 minimum criteria
If you are working in a role classified as Skill Level 1 – 3 according to ANZSCO
- You must have been working in Tasmania for at least six months immediately prior to your application. Your employment must average at least 20 hours per week over the six-month period immediately prior to lodging your application.
- If you have a skills assessment and related employment in an occupation listed on the Tasmanian Onshore Skilled Occupation List (TOSOL) – you may be eligible for nomination after three months of employment.
- 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).
- Your employment does not need to be related to your skills assessment.
- 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).
- If you are a subcontractor, you may be considered in this pathway if you have a related skills assessment and at least 12 months business activity in Tasmania.
- If your employment is not related to your skills-assessment you must have relevant qualifications or experience consistent with the ANZSCO definition for that role.
If you are working in a role classified at ANZSCO Skill Level 4 or 5
- You must have been working in Tasmania for at least six months* immediately prior to your application. Your employment must average at least 20 hours per week over the 12-month period prior to lodging 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).
- Your employment must be ongoing, for at least six months beyond the application date.
- There must be a genuine and demonstrated severe labour recruitment difficulty for the role, endorsed by your employer in a statement.
- You must have relevant qualifications or experience consistent with the ANZSCO definition for that role
- There must be opportunities for career advancement, endorsed in writing by your employer
*This requirement will change to at least 12 months for applications made in the 2023-24 program year.
Candidates who have only six months work experience in their ANZSCO 4 or 5 role are unlikely to be successful without possessing additional priority attributes.
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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.
Priority Attributes
- You have a skills assessment and directly related employment for at least the past 3 months included in the critical roles list.
- You have been employed in Tasmania for more than 2 years in a skilled role (ANZSCO 1-3) directly related to your skills assessment.
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the last 6 months in an area directly related to your skills assessment.
- You have been employed in Tasmania for the past 9-12 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role in the same industry area as your skills assessment.
- You have been employed in Tasmania for the past 12 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role in the same industry area as your skills assessment.
- You have been employed in Tasmania for more than 18 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role which is not directly related to your skills assessment.
- You are employed in ANZSCO 4-5 role and 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).
- You speak Proficient / Superior English, or you have an exemption to the English language requirements based on your passport country.
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $53 900 per year or 27.64 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loadings).
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $62 000 per year or $31.79 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loading).
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $90 617 per year or $42.62 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loading).
- You have lived in Tasmania for at least the past 2 years.
- You have lived in Tasmania for at least the past 3 years.
- Your spouse is employed in skilled role (ANZSCO 1-3) or has been running a business in Tasmania for the past 6 months.
- Your spouse has completed a minimum AQF 6 qualification with a Tasmanian education provider in Tasmania.
- Your spouse has lived in Tasmania for at least the last 6 months.
- You have close family living in Tasmania including siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins or grandparents.
- You must have completed a course of study and obtained a letter of completion from a tertiary institution in Tasmania registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS).
- You must have lived in the state for at least one calendar year from the commencement of your course and for the duration of your studies.
- Your course of study must be AQF 5 (Diploma) or higher, or at least Certificate III related to an ANZSCO Major Group 3 or Group 4 occupation, and be listed on CRICOS with a duration of at least 40 weeks.
- Your course must have been completed full-time and on-site in Tasmania.
- You must currently be living in Tasmania and intend to continue living in Tasmania.
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Priority Attributes
- You have a skills assessment and directly related employment for at least the past 3 months included in the critical roles list.
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the last 6 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role directly related to your skills assessment.
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the last 2 years in an ANZSCO 1-3 role directly related to your skills assessment.
- You have completed 2 years of your PhD in Tasmania.
- You have been employed in an ANZSCO 1-3 in Tasmania for at least the last 3 months directly related to your skills assessment or Tasmanian study.
- You have operated a Tasmanian business for at least 6 months which is directly related to your skills assessment or area of study.
- You have an offer for a graduate employment program. (Must be full-time, received before graduation, related to your skills assessment and be from a medium or large* Tasmanian business that has been operating in Tasmania for more than 5 years.
*A medium to large business is one with at least 20 employees (e.g. Deloitte, Taswater)
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the last 6 weeks in the same industry as your skills assessment or Tasmanian study
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the last 3 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role which is not related to your skills assessment
- You are employed in an ANZSCO 4-5 role and have a qualification related to this role (minimum Certificate III, not including online courses or qualifications gained on the basis of Recognition of Prior Learning)
- You have evidence of job interviews with at least 2 well-established businesses that have been operating in Tasmania for at least 3 years for positions that are related to your skills assessment or study
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $53 900 per year or 27.64 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loadings).
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $62 000 per year or $31.79 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loading).
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $90 617 per year or $42.62 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loading).
- You have completed an in-course work placement of at least 400 hours (e.g., nursing, teaching, medicine, social work).
- Your Tasmanian study is directly related to an occupation on the critical roles list
- You have commenced PhD studies in Tasmanian after completing undergraduate or postgraduate study in Tasmania
- You have lived in Tasmania for over 4 years
- You have not lived or studied in another part of Australia
- You speak Proficient / Superior English, or you have an exemption to the English language requirements based on your passport country.
- Your spouse is employed in skilled role (ANZSCO 1-3) or has been running a business in Tasmania for the past 6 months.
- Your spouse has completed a minimum AQF 6 qualification with a Tasmanian education provider in Tasmania.
- Your spouse has lived in Tasmania for at least the last 6 months.
- You have close family living in Tasmania including siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins or grandparents.
- You must have been living in Tasmania for at least two years (with no more than 50 per cent of total Australian residence period spent in another Australian state or territory) and currently be employed in Tasmania in either:
- a role equivalent to ANZSCO Skill Level 1-3, including a cumulative six months experience at the same level in the last 12 months (a minimum 20 hours per week), or
- a role equivalent to ANZSCO Skill Level Skill Level 4 or 5, with a cumulative 12 months experience at the same level or higher in the last 18 months (a minimum 20 hours per week).
Priority Attributes
- You have a skills assessment and directly related employment for at least the past 3 months included in the critical roles list.
- You have been employed in Tasmanian for at least the last 3 months in a TOSOL-listed role related to your skills assessment.
- You have two years cumulative experience in an ANZSCO 1-3 role in Tasmania related to your skills assessment.
- You have been employed for the past 3 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role in Tasmania directly related to your skills assessment.
- You have been employed in Tasmania for at least the last 12 months in an ANZSCO 1-3 role in Tasmania which is not related to your skill assessment.
- You have a qualification related to your current employment role (minimum Certificate III, not including online courses or qualifications gained on the basis of Recognition of Prior Learning).
- You have two years’ prior Australian industry experience relevant to your current employment.
- Your current employer has been operating in Tasmania for at least 5 years.
- You have resided in Tasmania continuously for more than 4 years.
- You have resided in Tasmania continuously for more than 5 years.
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $53 900 per year or 27.64 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loadings).
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $62 000 per year or $31.79 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loading).
- You are currently paid a base salary of at least $90 617 per year or $42.62 per hour (excluding overtime or casual loading).
- You speak Proficient / Superior English, or you have an exemption to the English language requirements based on your passport country.
- Your spouse is employed in skilled role (ANZSCO 1-3) or has been running a business in Tasmania for the past 6 months.
- Your spouse has completed a minimum AQF 6 qualification with a Tasmanian education provider in Tasmania.
- Your spouse has lived in Tasmania for at least the last 6 months.
- You have close family living in Tasmania including siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins or grandparents.
Also read:
2022 – 2023 Queensland State Nomination
2022 – 2023 South Australia State Nomination
2022 – 2023 Western Australia State Nomination
2022 – 2023 ACT State Nomination
2022 – 2023 NT State Nomination
2022 – 2023 Victoria State Nomination
2022 – 2023 NSW State Nomination
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