Deer Farmer (ANZSCO 121314)

On the Regional Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Deer Farmer on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Deer Farmer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS Group B, Bachelor-comparable qualification or the substantial-experience pathway. Like Goat Farmer, this occupation's page states that applicants nominating this managerial occupation must submit an organisational chart, showing the company letterhead, your position, your superiors and your subordinates. That is the assessment's centre of gravity: the enterprise and your place at the top of it. VETASSESS offers four pathways, and the fourth rests on substantial experience without requiring a relevant field of study, which is how most working farmers in this family satisfy the Group B requirement.

Where these applications come unstuck

The organisational chart requirement is where small operations come unstuck, since deer farming in most countries is a small-enterprise sector and the reporting structure often exists in practice without ever being written down. Beyond that, the general family trap applies: handling and husbandry work on someone else's property is the Farm Worker group, not this code. Deer enterprises are also frequently run alongside other farming, so applicants need to be clear about which enterprise they are evidencing rather than presenting a whole property's activity as one role.

An honest read on this pathway

Deer Farmer is ROL-only. That is the most consequential fact about it and it has nothing to do with the quality of an application — the 482 and 186 visas draw on lists this code does not appear on, so they are unavailable rather than difficult. The 407, 491 and 494 remain, with the regional residence condition attached to the last two.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

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