Skill Assessment Overview

A Skills Assessment evaluates whether your skills and experience meet the requirements to work at the trade level in your nominated occupation in Australia.

To proceed, you must provide evidence that your skills have been assessed as suitable for your occupation by the relevant assessing authority. This assessment should be a full (permanent) skills assessment, which is necessary for Points Tested Skilled Migration.

The Department of Home Affairs (DOHA) requires visa applicants to submit a skills assessment as part of various Skilled visa applications and Expressions of Interest (EOI). In certain cases, overseas workers may also need to provide a skills assessment when applying for employer-sponsored work visas.

Skills Assessment Requirements:

If you intend to apply for a ‘Skilled’ visa, you must obtain a skills assessment to demonstrate that you have the necessary skills that match those required for an occupation listed on current skilled visa Occupation Lists. This requirement relates to the following visas:

Subclass 189 Skilled – Independent visa (Points Stream)

Subclass 190 Skilled – Nominated visa

Subclass 491 Skilled – Work Regional (Provisional) visa

Subclass 494 Skilled Employer Sponsored (Regional) visa

Subclass 485 Temporary Graduate visa (Graduate Work stream)

We are specialists dealing with the following skills assessing authorities:

·       IEAust – Institution of Engineers, Australia

·       TRA – Trades Recognition Australia

·       VETASSESS – Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services

·       AASW – Australian Association of Social Workers

·       ANCI – Australian Nursing Council Incorporated