Meteorologist (ANZSCO 234913)

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 Meteorologist 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 Meteorologist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Meteorologist is confirmed on its own page as a VETASSESS Group A occupation, following the standard structure: a bachelor's degree or higher in a highly relevant field, plus at least one year of post-qualification employment at an appropriate skill level within the last five years, at 20 hours or more a week. It sits in the 2349 "Other Physical Sciences" unit group alongside Metallurgist, Physicist, Exercise Physiologist and the family's nec code, a more loosely themed grouping than the agricultural, chemical or life-sciences clusters.

Where these applications come unstuck

Because meteorology sits with several dissimilar occupations in the 2349 unit group rather than a tightly clustered set of confusable neighbours, the main risk for this code is less about mistaking it for a sibling occupation and more about the standard Group A qualification-field question: a physics or earth-science degree without meteorology or atmospheric-science content specifically is the kind of field-of-study gap that has no lesser-field fallback under Group A rules, since highly relevant employment cannot compensate for a qualification VETASSESS does not consider highly relevant to begin with.

An honest read on this pathway

Meteorologist carries MLTSSL and CSOL, reaching all eight visas in this family, giving it the same broad access as most of the well-listed occupations checked across this dossier. Unlike the agricultural or environmental clusters, this occupation's page and its unit-group neighbours did not surface named cross-exclusions worth flagging in this review — the main work for an applicant is establishing the standard qualification-and-employment evidence, not navigating a confusable-title trap.

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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