Architectural, Building and Surveying Technicians nec (ANZSCO 312199)

On the Short-term Skilled 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 Architectural, Building and Surveying Technicians nec on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

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 Architectural, Building and Surveying Technicians nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

VETASSESS assesses this as a Group C occupation on the same terms as its siblings — a qualification comparable to an Australian Qualifications Framework Diploma or higher and at least one year of post-qualification employment at an appropriate skill level within the last five years, at 20 hours or more a week. VETASSESS's own page states its purpose directly: it covers occupations 'not elsewhere classified' in ANZSCO. This is a residual catch-all code, not a general-purpose alternative to the six named technician codes that sit alongside it in this family.

Where these applications come unstuck

VETASSESS excludes all six of this family's other 3121xx codes by name — Architectural Draftsperson, Building Associate, Building Inspector, Construction Estimator, Plumbing Inspector, and Surveying or Spatial Science Technician are all listed as occupations not considered under 312199. Nominating this code as a safer or broader default when an applicant's actual work matches one of those six more precisely is not a hedge — it is the wrong choice against VETASSESS's own published exclusion list, and it invites exactly the scrutiny a residual 'nec' code attracts.

An honest read on this pathway

312199 reaches the STSOL and CSOL with 186, 190, 407, 482, 491 and 494 — a wider visa spread than most of its 3121xx siblings, including a state-nominated 190 route. That breadth does not make it a more forgiving choice: because it explicitly excludes every named alternative in the family, it only genuinely fits work that does not map onto Architectural Draftsperson, Building Associate, Building Inspector, Construction Estimator, Plumbing Inspector or the surveying technician code at all.

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

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