Bricklayer (ANZSCO 331111)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Bricklayer on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

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).

Processing priority

Bricklayer is a construction occupation under Directions 121 and 122 (ANZSCO Sub-Major Group 33, Construction Trades Workers). Since 19 September 2026, skilled visa applications by a primary applicant in this occupation are in the first group processed: for the 482 under Direction 121, and for the permanent and provisional skilled visas, including the 186, 189, 190, 491 and 494, under Direction 122.

Priority changes the order in which lodged applications are looked at, not whether they are granted. Who is invited to apply through SkillSelect is decided separately. See all 202 occupations in the priority sectors.

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Bricklayer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

CORRECTED 2026-09-04. The 2026-08-29 entry here named a specific Certificate qualification as TRA's requirement and said the assessment may include photographic or video evidence of your work. A verified 65-source pass across TRA's whole captured site found neither: TRA publishes no per-occupation qualification requirement, and the only mentions of photographs anywhere are photo IDENTIFICATION. TRA does not publish a Bricklayer-specific page. Which of its five assessment programs applies depends on your passport, where you trained, and the visa you are chasing — not the trade itself. Most offshore applicants use the documentary Migration Skills Assessment, or the occupation-and-country-gated Offshore Skills Assessment Program; onshore student graduates working in the trade use the employment-based Job Ready Program instead, which needs at least twelve months of qualifying Australian employment however fast the paperwork moves. Bricklayer also sits on TRA’s construction streamlining list as both Prioritised — automatic faster processing, no extra fee — and Streamlined, letting China, Iran, Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, UAE or UK passport holders use the simpler MSA instead of OSAP. Bricklayer alone gets that eighth country.

Where these applications come unstuck

Defaulting to OSAP because that is what most trades applicants expect is a real cost for anyone actually eligible for the Bricklayer streamlining shortcut — it means a longer, RTO-run process where a simpler in-house document review would have done. The reverse mistake also happens: assuming streamlining applies to every passport, when TRA’s own list names only eight countries. MSA itself is unforgiving on evidence — it does not accept work experience as a substitute for a qualification, and an occupational licence cannot substitute one either. And a positive assessment, however it is reached, is a migration document only; it does not authorise anyone to pick up tools under a state or territory’s building licence.

An honest read on this pathway

Bricklayer sits on the MLTSSL and the CSOL with the full eight-visa spread, including the points-tested 189 and the post-study 485 — a genuinely open pathway on paper. The streamlining shortcut for eight named passports is a real, current concession, not a permanent feature: TRA’s own wording ties it to a 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2026 window, worth reconfirming on the live site before planning around it. State and territory building licensing sits entirely outside TRA’s remit and was not established here — budget time to check that separately before assuming a visa outcome means being able to trade.

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 Bricklayer 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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