The Skilled Nominated visa (Subclass 190) is a permanent residence visa for skilled workers which allows you to live and work in Tasmania.
State nomination from Tasmania for this visa provides you with five additional points to help meet the Department of Home Affairs points test pass mark of 65 points. More information on this is available under ‘Eligibility’.
If you are nominated by the Tasmanian Government for this visa, you must live in Tasmania for two years after the visa has been granted.
Eligibility:
Check that you meet the key eligibility requirements set by the Department Of The Home Affairs for skilled migration. This includes age, points required, nominated occupation and English level competency.
TAS ROI
Register with the Migration Tasmania Gateway. Based on the information you provide. the gateway we will tell you if you are eligible for Tasmanian nomination. It will then rank you in comparison to the other eligible candidates. The most competitive applicants will be invited to lodge an application for nomination.
Registration is free and valid for 6 months.
Tasmanian Skilled Employment Pathway
TSE Priority Occupation option
- You must have worked in Tasmania in a job closely related to your skills assessment (a role within the same ANZSCO 3-digit group as your skills assessment) for:
- At least 9 months, or
- 6 months if your skills assessment is for a teaching occupation (and you are working in a school) or health or allied health occupation.
- Your skills assessment must be listed as a TSE Priority Occupation.
- Your employment must meet any additional occupational caveats listed for your occupation.
- Your employment must have averaged at least 20 hours per week.
- If self-employed or a contractor, you need:
- A relevant skills assessment, and
- 12 months of business activity in Tasmania.
TSE long-term employment option - all skills assessments eligible for this pathway
- You must have worked in Tasmania in a role closely related to your skills assessment for at least 15 months immediately before applying.
- Your employment must meet any occupational caveats listed for your occupation.
- If self-employed or a contractor, you need:
- A relevant skills assessment, and
- 12 months of business activity in Tasmania.
- Your occupation must be on the Home Affairs skilled occupation list for subclass 190.
Tasmanian Skilled Graduate Pathway
- You must have completed a course with a Tasmanian tertiary institution registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS) and received a completion letter.
- Study must have been full-time and on-site in Tasmania (at least 75% of a full-time load per semester; no online or distance learning).
- Your course must have been:
- Listed on CRICOS with a minimum duration of 92 weeks, and
- AQF 5 (Diploma) or higher, or
- at least Certificate III related to an OSCA Major Group 3 or Group 4 occupation
- You must have lived in Tasmania for at least two calendar years from the start of your course and throughout your studies.
- VET courses must include at least 15 contact hours per week, unless the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA ) specifies otherwise.
- Credit transfers do not count toward full-time study hours.
- PhD candidates who did not complete their undergraduate studies in Tasmania are eligible after living in Tasmania for two years and completing two years of their PhD.
- You must currently live in Tasmania and intend to stay.
Dependant family members must not be living in another Australian state or territory other than Tasmania.
They may be currently living overseas.
If they have relocated from another state or territory, they must have moved to Tasmania at least three months before applying for nomination.
Tasmanian Established Resident Pathway
You must have lived in Tasmania for at least the last three years, with no more than 50 per cent of your total Australian residence period spent in other Australian states or territories, intend to continue living in Tasmania and either:
- be working in a role with a Tasmanian-based employer that paid at least $57,000 per year or $28.85 per hour (excluding overtime, penalties, bonuses or casual loading), with at least 12 months of work in the last two years (minimum 20 hours/week).
- be working in a role that paid at least the National Minimum Wage but less than $57,000 per year or $28.85 per hour, with at least 18 months of work in the last 3 years (minimum 20 hours/week).
- have undertaken remote work for the immediate past 12 months while residing in Tasmania, for an employer or clients located outside the state, earning at least $57,000 per year or $28.85 per hour (excluding overtime, penalties, bonuses or casual loading).
- have operated a business in Tasmania for at least the past two years, generating a minimum personal income equal to the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold (currently $76,515), with the business also achieving a net profit after receiving that income
Dependant family members must not be living in another Australian state or territory other than Tasmania.
They may be currently living overseas.
If they have relocated from another state or territory, they must have moved to Tasmania at least three months before applying for nomination.
Tasmanian Business Operator Pathway
- You must have established and operated a business in Tasmania for at least 12 months. The business must be solely owned or co-owned with your spouse.
- Your business must still have been in profit after paying yourself a salary of at least 85 per cent of the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold (currently $65,037)*. This income must come from genuine business activity and not be significantly supplemented by non-business sources such as personal savings, loans from family, or other external financial support.
- You must demonstrate awareness of fair employment practices by completing key units from the Fair Work Ombudsman’s online learning centre.
- Owners of massage therapy businesses must have a related skills assessment and a verifiable health fund provider number.
- Subcontractors and independent contractors are not eligible under this pathway (refer to Tasmanian Skilled Employment or Tasmanian Established Resident pathways.
* Your Australian Taxation Office Business Income Statement and Personal Income Statement for the most recent financial year must demonstrate that your business operated at a net profit after your personal taxable income of $65,037 was deducted
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