Psychologists nec (ANZSCO 272399)

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 Psychologists nec 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 Psychologists nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Psychologists nec goes through the same APS overseas-qualifications process as the three named codes — AQF/APAC 2019 comparability, six-tier grading, only the six-year APAC-accredited outcome supporting a migration-suitable result. Where this code differs is what it catches: APS's own 2014 submission to government named several of AHPRA's practice areas — including clinical neuropsychology, community, counselling, forensic, health, and sport and exercise psychology — as having no dedicated ANZSCO code of their own, describing this gap between the Skilled Occupation List and "the nine recognized areas of practice" as something "highlighted repeatedly" to the Department. An applicant practising in one of those specialties is assessed under nec, Clinical or Organisational, not a code matching their specialty title.

Where these applications come unstuck

Nec is easy to misread as a lesser or catch-all code, but it carries identical list membership and identical visa reach to Clinical, Educational and Organisational — the "nec" label does not narrow anything here, unlike some other occupation families where a nec sibling sits on a worse list than its named relatives. The real risk with this code runs the other way: an applicant assessed under Psychologists nec because their specialty, say forensic or health psychology, has no dedicated ANZSCO code may reasonably but wrongly assume the migration code reflects their professional identity. It does not. AHPRA's endorsement structure runs on its own nine areas, entirely separate from how ANZSCO groups the same qualifications for migration purposes.

An honest read on this pathway

Psychologists nec reaches all eight skilled visas — 186, 189, 190, 407, 482, 485, 491, 494 — matching Clinical, Educational and Organisational exactly, so visa access is not a reason to prefer or avoid this code over its siblings. What it does confirm is that APS found the qualification comparable to six years of Australian psychology study. It says nothing about which of AHPRA's nine practice-endorsement areas the applicant might eventually be endorsed in, nothing about general registration, and nothing about the provisional-registration employment bind APS has described to government as a real barrier between a positive assessment and actual paid work.

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.

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