Textile, Clothing and Footwear Mechanic (ANZSCO 323215)

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 Textile, Clothing and Footwear Mechanic 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 Textile, Clothing and Footwear Mechanic comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Textile, Clothing and Footwear Mechanic is the outlier of unit group 3232: it sits on the Regional Occupation List (ROL) rather than MLTSSL, with a narrower three-visa reach — 186, 482 and 494 only — against the eight-visa spread every other code in this unit group carries. TRA's own assessment criteria for this occupation could not be verified in this research, and this code appears to draw far less visa-migration attention than the mainstream metal-fitting trades it sits alongside on paper, which may explain why forum or applicant-experience material for it could not be found here either.

Where these applications come unstuck

The trap specific to this code is assuming it carries the same visa reach as the other fitting-and-machining trades it shares a unit group with — it does not. No 189 (Skilled Independent), no 190 (state nomination), no 407, no 485, no 491: only employer-sponsored 482 and 186, plus regional 494. An applicant assuming any code inside unit group 3232 opens the same doors as Fitter (General) or Metal Machinist (First Class) is working from the wrong assumption for this specific occupation.

An honest read on this pathway

Textile, Clothing and Footwear Mechanic's ROL-and-CSOL position, with only 186, 482 and 494 open, makes this the narrowest visa reach of any code in the metal-fitting-and-machining unit group — closer in shape to Fire Protection Plumber's narrow CSOL-only list than to its own unit-group siblings. Employer sponsorship or a regional visa pathway is effectively the only route this occupation's visa list supports; the independent and graduate pathways available to most of this family's trades are closed to this code specifically.

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

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