Chief Information Officer (ANZSCO 135111)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Chief Information Officer on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

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 Chief Information Officer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ACS assesses this code under its Migration Skills Assessment, using whichever of four pathways fits your qualification and experience shape rather than the occupation itself. General Skills suits experienced applicants with a relevant degree; RPL suits applicants without one, and asks for six years of relevant experience, two Project Reports and two forms of Professional Currency evidence. ACS's own duty description for Chief Information Officer centres on planning, organising, directing, controlling and coordinating an organisation's ICT strategy so infrastructure supports the whole organisation's operations and priorities — an organisation-wide, strategic brief.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code opens with the same verb pattern ACS uses for ICT Project Manager and ICT Managers nec, and ACS explicitly refuses reference letters whose duties are copied from its own published text or from another reference. A generic 'IT manager' letter risks reading as boilerplate rather than evidence of an organisation-wide strategic role specifically. Worth checking too: this code's published visa reach does not include state nomination, unlike its two closest sibling codes — don't assume it's automatically the broader option because it sounds the most senior.

An honest read on this pathway

Chief Information Officer carries MLTSSL and CSOL, but its published reach (186/407/482/494) is narrower than an MLTSSL listing normally implies — no 189, no 485 shown, and no state nomination either. That combination is unusual: most MLTSSL occupations reach the independent 189 route and the post-study 485, and this code's own sibling codes in the same family (ICT Project Manager, ICT Managers nec) do carry state nomination despite sitting on a lower list. That gap is an unresolved data point Migratio is tracking pending a government check, so treat the published reach as the current picture rather than the one an MLTSSL listing alone would normally suggest, and verify directly before planning around any specific route for this code.

Assembling an ACS application? ACS wants employment evidence that lines up exactly with the dates and duties you claim elsewhere. The Skilled Visa EOI Organiser keeps your claims consistent across the skills assessment, EOI and Form 80 — inconsistencies between them are a common cause of delay.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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