Metal Casting Trades Worker (ANZSCO 322114)

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 Metal Casting Trades Worker 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 Metal Casting Trades Worker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Metal Casting Trades Worker has no TRA page of its own; like the rest of this family it is assessed under whichever general program applies. TRA's Migration Skills Assessment eligibility wording names only the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List and the Short-term Skilled Occupations List, and this occupation sits on the Regional Occupation List plus the Core Skills Occupation List instead. The assessment itself, once lodged, is the standard document comparison TRA runs for every trade, weighted heavily toward a formal qualification: work experience is never accepted as a substitute for one.

Where these applications come unstuck

The same literal-wording gap that affects Electroplater applies here — TRA's eligibility sentences never name the Core Skills Occupation List, so an applicant should confirm directly with TRA or Home Affairs which program covers this code rather than assuming the Migration Skills Assessment door is automatically open by analogy with the strategic-list trades in this family. ANZSCO also carries no licensing note for this occupation, so there is no classification-side signal of a state registration requirement either.

An honest read on this pathway

Metal Casting Trades Worker reaches subclass 186, 482 and 494 through Core Skills Occupation List membership — the standard sponsored pathway, subject to the usual salary-threshold rules for that stream. It does not reach the points-tested or post-study routes, because it carries no Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List or Short-term Skilled Occupations List membership. No dated, on-topic real-applicant account of this specific trade's TRA assessment turned up in the sources reachable for this dossier.

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 Metal Casting Trades Worker 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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