Regulatory Affairs Manager (ANZSCO 139917)

On the 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 Regulatory Affairs Manager on?

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 in Demand visa (subclass 482) — Temporary, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 482
• Employer Nomination Scheme visa (subclass 186) — Permanent, employer sponsored · all occupations for the 186

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Regulatory Affairs Manager comes from:

• Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process

What the assessment actually involves

Regulatory Affairs Manager is a VETASSESS Group B occupation on CSOL only, reaching two visa subclasses — Employer Nomination and Skills in Demand — with no points-tested independent route available through this code at all, since it carries no MLTSSL or STSOL membership. VETASSESS excludes Quality Assurance Manager from this code by name, and Regulatory Affairs Manager is in turn excluded from both Quality Assurance Manager's and Policy and Planning Manager's own pages — a three-way mutual exclusion across this family.

Where these applications come unstuck

With no state-nomination or regional route available, an employer-sponsorship offer is not optional here, it is the only door this code opens on its own — an applicant without a sponsoring employer already lined up has no fallback pathway through this occupation. The mutual exclusion with Quality Assurance Manager and Policy and Planning Manager also means duties genuinely spanning compliance, quality systems and policy functions need to be matched to the one that fits best, since VETASSESS treats the three as separate occupations rather than points on one compliance-management spectrum.

An honest read on this pathway

The narrowest pathway shape in this family that still carries CSOL — genuinely sponsorable, but only sponsorable, with no independent or regional fallback if the employer relationship falls through. Worth knowing before treating this as equivalent to Quality Assurance Manager or Policy and Planning Manager, both of which reach materially more of the visa system despite sitting in the same compliance-and-standards neighbourhood.

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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