Patents Examiner (ANZSCO 224914)

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 Patents Examiner 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 Patents Examiner comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Patents Examiner sits on STSOL and CSOL, reaching six visa subclasses — employer nomination, state nomination, the graduate visa, Skills in Demand sponsorship and both regional streams — the same broad reach as several of the family's other STSOL-plus-CSOL codes. This is one of five codes in the family — alongside Archivist, Librarian, Gallery or Museum Curator and Electorate Officer — whose own VETASSESS page carries no "occupations considered suitable / not considered" section in this research pass, a genuine feature of those specific pages rather than a gap in the research.

Where these applications come unstuck

Because no confusable-code guidance is published on this specific page, applicants cannot lean on an explicit exclusion list the way they can for the marketing, HR or sales-representative codes in this family. That makes the standard Group B evidence rules — the qualification level, field relevance, and who is allowed to sign the employment reference — the main thing to get right here, since there is no published sibling-code trap to check against.

An honest read on this pathway

The visa reach on this code is genuinely wide, matching Organisation and Methods Analyst and several others at six subclasses. Without a published suitable-occupations list to check against, an applicant's safest move is checking the field-of-study and pathway detail on VETASSESS's own current page directly for this code, since the family-wide patterns documented elsewhere in this research do not include page-specific detail for Patents Examiner.

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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