Farrier (ANZSCO 322113)

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 Farrier 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 Farrier comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Farrier is the only Short-term Skilled Occupations List code in this family, which puts it cleanly inside TRA's literal Migration Skills Assessment eligibility wording: “listed on the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills Lists (MLTSSL) or the Short-term Skilled Occupations Lists (STSOL) on the Department of Home Affairs (Home Affairs) website with Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) listed as the relevant assessing authority.” TRA has no page specific to farriery itself; the assessment is the same document-based comparison of qualifications and employment history against Australian standards that every other TRA occupation goes through, with no farrier-specific evidence list published.

Where these applications come unstuck

Because there is no occupation-specific guidance, the general TRA rules carry the whole weight: no substitute for a formal qualification, no credit for an existing licence, and originals must never be sent. A separate, unresolved question sits alongside the migration assessment — whether any Australian state licenses or registers farriery as a trade, distinct from general animal-welfare law around hoof care. No TRA, ANZSCO or labour-agreement source addresses this, so it should not be assumed either way before arrival.

An honest read on this pathway

Farrier carries the widest visa reach in this family: 186, 190, 407, 482, 491 and 494, because Short-term Skilled Occupations List membership sits alongside Core Skills Occupation List membership. No dedicated equine or farriery employer-sponsorship lane turned up in the labour-agreement register searched for this dossier, and the region-based DAMA tagging used there is a name-based guess rather than a confirmed occupation match — so a 494 route through a DAMA cannot be assumed without reading that agreement's own occupation list directly.

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 Farrier 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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