On 3 December 2024, the Australian Government announced the release of the Core Skills Occupation List (CSOL). This was part of the Australia's government Migration Strategy released on 11 December 2023 which provided a role for Jobs and Skills Australia to draw up a new occupation list that will target the temporary skilled migration system to Australia’s workforce needs.
The new Core Skilled Occupation List fulfills the Government’s commitment to replace complex, out of date and inflexible occupation lists in our temporary skilled visa program. The CSOL is a single consolidated list, informed by labour market analysis and stakeholder consultations by Jobs and Skills Australia (JSA) that provides access to temporary skilled migration for 456 occupations. Some occupations had to be included on CSOL in line with Australia’s existing Free Trade Agreements.
The CSOL will apply to the Core Skills stream of the new Skills in Demand visa, which replaced the Temporary Skill Shortage (subclass 482) visa on 7 December 2024. The CSOL will also apply to the Direct Entry stream of the permanent Employer Nomination Scheme (subclass 186) visa.
Certain occupations that were available under the old Temporary Skilled Shortage (Short-Term) visa (Subclass 482) are not included on the CSOL and will not be eligible for the Core Skills Stream of the SID visa. For example, occupations such as Cafe or Restaurant Manager (141111), Dance Teacher (private tuition) (249212) and Economist (224311) have been removed from the CSOL. Some of these occupations may be eligible for the Specialist Skills stream, subject to meeting income requirements, or the Labour Agreement stream of the SID visa. These occupations may also be eligible for other visa pathways including permanent visas.
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