Boarding Kennel or Cattery Operator (ANZSCO 149911)

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 Boarding Kennel or Cattery Operator 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 Boarding Kennel or Cattery Operator comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Boarding Kennel or Cattery Operator is Group C, AQF Diploma or higher, on ROL and CSOL — reaching Employer Nomination and the Skills in Demand main stream, broader access than most of the small owner-run business titles elsewhere in this family. VETASSESS's own page confirms the standard AQF Diploma-or-higher qualification requirement, and as a managerial occupation the standard organisational-chart evidence applies.

Where these applications come unstuck

Boarding kennels and catteries are commonly small, owner-operated businesses with minimal staff — the same ownership shape VETASSESS explicitly rules out for Hair or Beauty Salon Manager's sole-trader operators. This code's own page did not state that exclusion directly in the material checked, but the general managerial-occupation evidence rule still applies by analogy, and an owner-operator running the business largely alone should expect that gap to be tested rather than assumed away.

An honest read on this pathway

The employer-sponsored access here is genuinely wide for a small-business occupation category — level with Retail Manager (General) and Fleet Manager, not the narrower 494-only titles common elsewhere in this family. Where the staffing and managerial-duties evidence can actually be assembled, this code offers a real employer-sponsored pathway that most comparably small-scale titles in this family don't reach, which makes the staffing evidence worth building carefully rather than assumed.

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

Whether nominating Boarding Kennel or Cattery Operator is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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