Sheep Farmer (ANZSCO 121322)

On the Regional 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 Sheep 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.

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 Sheep Farmer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS Group B, so a qualification comparable to an Australian Bachelor degree or higher, with the substantial-experience pathway available where the field of study does not match. As across this family, the assessment is looking for evidence that you ran the enterprise: production planning, budgeting, marketing the clip or the stock, and directing the people who did the physical work.

Where these applications come unstuck

Shearing, crutching and general station work belong to the Farm Worker groups rather than here, however many seasons of it you have. Contract shearers in particular often assume a long record on many properties is strong evidence, when what this code needs is evidence of running one enterprise. Where the work was on a family property, VETASSESS will still want the business side documented rather than assumed from the family relationship.

An honest read on this pathway

Sheep Farmer carries CSOL alongside ROL, which puts the 482 and 186 sponsored routes structurally within reach, unlike the beef and mixed livestock codes. That makes the list tier worth confirming before you start, because two codes that look like near neighbours in the same industry can have genuinely different visa footprints. The substantial-experience pathway matters here too, because many sheep enterprises are inherited rather than entered through study, and VETASSESS's fourth pathway does not require a relevant field of study at all.

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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