Teacher of the Sight Impaired (ANZSCO 241513)

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 Teacher of the Sight Impaired 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 Teacher of the Sight Impaired comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

This checklist mirrors Teacher of the Hearing Impaired exactly, with the sensory specialisation swapped: four years of higher education including a recognised ITE qualification, 45 days of supervised teaching practice inside it, Academic IELTS at 7.0 reading and writing and 8.0 speaking and listening, plus one year of Bachelor-level or higher study in sight impairment. Where the specialisation study was completed separately from the ITE qualification, AITSL requires a minimum of 30 days of supervised teaching practice specifically with sight impaired students, in addition to the base placement completed inside the ITE degree.

Where these applications come unstuck

As with its hearing-impairment counterpart, the extra 30 days applies only when the specialisation study sits outside the ITE qualification — an applicant whose specialisation was a stand-alone postgraduate qualification needs to have arranged that placement deliberately, because it cannot be assembled from general classroom experience after the fact. Neither the Special Needs Teacher nor the nec checklist currently states an equivalent rule, so this is not a detail that generalises across the family; each checklist has to be read on its own terms rather than assumed from a sibling code.

An honest read on this pathway

Full MLTSSL and CSOL reach puts this code on the same eight-visa footing as its siblings, including the 189 independent pathway. The genuine constraint is evidentiary rather than academic: an applicant with a strong ITE qualification but a specialisation studied separately, and no documented practicum with sight impaired students specifically, faces a real gap the checklist does not let you paper over. Teacher registration with the relevant state or territory body remains a separate step after any positive outcome.

Whichever authority assesses you, the paperwork is the part applicants underestimate. The Document Vault keeps a single register of every document, what it was needed for, and what is still missing.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Teacher of the Sight Impaired 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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