Electroplater (ANZSCO 322112)

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 Electroplater 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 Electroplater comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Electroplater has no dedicated TRA assessment page; it falls to whichever of TRA's general programs applies. TRA's own eligibility wording for the Migration Skills Assessment names only the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and the Short-term Skilled Occupations List, and Electroplater sits on the Regional Occupation List plus the Core Skills Occupation List instead — not on that named list. Across every TRA program, work experience never substitutes for a qualification, and neither does an existing occupational licence: “No, an occupational licence cannot substitute a formal qualification.”

Where these applications come unstuck

The literal gap in TRA's eligibility wording is the thing to check before assuming the Migration Skills Assessment is automatically open to a Core Skills Occupation List code like Electroplater. A separate, unrelated risk sits outside migration entirely: electroplating uses acid and cyanide-based plating baths and generates hazardous liquid waste, and state environmental regulators licence hazardous-chemical handling separately from any occupational registration. Neither TRA nor ANZSCO's occupation description flags this, because it attaches to the workshop, not the trade.

An honest read on this pathway

Electroplater reaches subclass 186, 482 and 494 through Core Skills Occupation List membership, the standard sponsored route, subject to the usual salary-threshold rules. It does not reach 189, 190, 407 or 485 — those sit with the strategic skills lists, which this occupation does not carry. Forum interest in this specific trade is thin: a 2020 post from the partner of an experienced UK electroplater asking about local work availability went unanswered, which is itself a useful signal about how little public discussion exists for this route.

Going through Trades Recognition Australia? TRA pathways lean heavily on documented work history and evidence of on-the-job experience. The Employment History Builder reconstructs it with gap detection, so the record you submit holds together.

Talk it through with a registered agent

Whether nominating Electroplater 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.

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