Quarantine Officer (ANZSCO 311313)
On the Regional 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 Quarantine Officer 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.
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).
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Processing priority
Quarantine Officer isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.
Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Quarantine Officer comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
What the assessment actually involves
VETASSESS assesses Quarantine Officer as a Group C occupation within the Primary Products Inspectors cluster, covering biosecurity and quarantine-inspection work. This code sits on the Regional Occupation List only, reaching the 494 regional-provisional visa and nothing else — the same narrow reach as its cluster neighbour, Fisheries Officer, and well below Meat Inspector's full six-visa spread within the same 3112 unit group.
Where these applications come unstuck
No Skills in Demand route, no Employer Nomination and no state-nomination points-tested route exists under this code, so an employer wanting to sponsor a quarantine-inspection specialist has no direct pathway to do so through this specific occupation code, regardless of the applicant's experience level. This dossier found no dedicated mining, meat or agriculture labour-agreement lane specific to quarantine-inspection work either.
An honest read on this pathway
For a regional-provisional visa plan the pathway is open on the same terms as Fisheries Officer. For anyone whose plan depends on employer sponsorship, this code cannot deliver it, and this dossier did not identify an alternative code in the family that better fits quarantine-inspection duties specifically — worth raising directly with a migration professional rather than assuming a related inspection title will substitute.
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.
Talk it through with a registered agent
Whether nominating Quarantine Officer 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.
Related occupations
- Fisheries Officer (311311)
- Meat Inspector (311312)
- Primary Products Assurance and Inspection Officers nec (311399)
- Primary Products Inspectors nec (311399)
- Primary Products Quality Assurance Officer (311314)
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