Poultry Farmer (ANZSCO 121321)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills 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 Poultry Farmer on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

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 Poultry Farmer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS Group B, with the same Bachelor-comparable qualification requirement and the same substantial-experience pathway as the rest of the family. The assessment looks at whether you managed the operation — flock and shed planning, budgets, contracts with processors, and the staff doing the daily work — rather than at your husbandry knowledge. VETASSESS's fourth pathway is worth knowing about here, since it rests on substantial experience rather than a matching field of study, which is how most working poultry farmers qualify.

Where these applications come unstuck

The worker-versus-manager line applies here as everywhere in this family: shed work on someone else's operation sits in the Farm Worker groups. Poultry work is also often contracted to a processor, and where that is the case VETASSESS will be looking at who actually carried the enterprise risk and made the business decisions, which is not always the person whose name is on the shed roster.

An honest read on this pathway

Poultry Farmer is the only code in this family on the STSOL, and that single difference gives it the 190 state-nominated permanent visa that the ROL-only codes cannot reach. It carries CSOL as well. If you are choosing between farming codes and your history genuinely supports more than one, this is the one whose list tier is worth checking first, because the visa consequences are real rather than marginal.

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.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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