Nuclear Medicine Technologist (ANZSCO 251213)

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 Nuclear Medicine Technologist 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 Nuclear Medicine Technologist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ANZSNM assesses Nuclear Medicine Technologist for migration, but only once Medical Radiation Practice Board of Australia registration is already in hand. ANZSNM's own guidance is direct about the order: applicants must first obtain that registration and meet its criteria, then apply to ANZSNM for an assessment of skills and work experience. Evidence of current MRPBA, or the New Zealand equivalent, registration is itself listed as a required document inside the ANZSNM application. ANZSNM's own remit is narrow — it can only advise on the skills assessment itself, and directs every other migration question to the Department of Home Affairs.

Where these applications come unstuck

This occupation reverses the order that applies almost everywhere else in this family, where the migration assessment runs before or alongside registration rather than after it. An applicant who researches Optometry, Chiropractic or Osteopathy first, and reasonably assumes the same order applies here, will need to restart once they discover registration comes first. ANZSNM itself cautions against irreversible moves before registration is confirmed — resigning a current job or relocating before approval — and states plainly that the two application processes remain legally separate even once both are under way.

An honest read on this pathway

A workable pathway once the correct order is understood, but the sequencing dependency is unusually strict for this family and easy to get wrong on a first attempt, particularly if the research was done by analogy to a sibling occupation rather than to ANZSNM's own page directly. Because registration comes first, the real bottleneck for most applicants sits with the Medical Radiation Practice Board's own process rather than with ANZSNM's skills assessment, which becomes comparatively quick once that document is in hand — plan the timeline around the registration step, not the migration one.

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

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