Translator (ANZSCO 272413)

On the Regional 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 Translator on?

ROL — Regional Occupation List. Occupations on the ROL are limited to the regional provisional visas — mainly the Skilled Work Regional 491 and Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional 494.

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 Translator comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

NAATI is also the specified authority for this code, and the same sponsorship-or-nomination gate and tested-certification requirement described for Interpreter apply here — a Recognised Practising credential is not eligible for a skills assessment, only a certification earned by sitting a NAATI test. Where this code differs structurally is the credential ladder underneath it: NAATI's certification system currently offers only one certification tier for translators, Certified Translator, compared with several distinct tiers for interpreting. A translator's evidence pathway is therefore narrower in structure, even though the underlying sponsorship gate and three-year validity rule work the same way as for Interpreter.

Where these applications come unstuck

The trap specific to this code is nominating Interpreter instead because it is the more familiar English word for language work, when the applicant's actual output is written translation — the two are assessed by the same authority but sit on different skilled-occupation lists with different visa reach, so the wrong choice can close off a pathway the correct one would have kept open. As with Interpreter, assuming any valid NAATI credential meets the assessment bar, rather than specifically a tested certification, is a second recurring error.

An honest read on this pathway

This code's visa reach is broader than Interpreter's, so someone who genuinely does translation work and nominates it correctly is better placed than if they had defaulted to the interpreting code out of habit. The same sponsorship-or-nomination gate that limits Interpreter applies here too, so an independent applicant without an employer or state government arranging the nomination faces the same structural barrier to obtaining a skills assessment in the first place, regardless of which of the two NAATI codes actually suits their 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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