Fibrous Plasterer (ANZSCO 333211)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills 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 Fibrous Plasterer 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.

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 Fibrous Plasterer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Fibrous Plasterer is the earlier ANZSCO edition's name for code 333211, specialisation Dry Wall Plasterer, sitting in a unit group ABS then called simply Plasterers. It covers fixing plasterboard partitions, suspended ceilings, fire rating systems, acoustic tiles and composite wall linings — the dry-plastering side of the trade. This is the name the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List uses, so a points-tested 189 or 491, or post-study 485, applicant nominates here. TRA's construction occupations list uses this same older name when marking the trade Prioritised. Assessment runs through the standard document-based Migration Skills Assessment: a formal trade qualification and verifiable pay evidence for each claimed period of paid work, with no work-experience substitute accepted.

Where these applications come unstuck

A real 2009 applicant, found on britishexpats.com, believed seven years of hands-on experience alone — with no formal qualification — would be enough because the occupation sat on the right list; under TRA's current rules that plan fails outright, since work experience cannot substitute for a qualification and neither can an occupational licence. The other live risk is nominating this older name for an employer-sponsored 482 or 186 application, which the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List does not support; that pairing sits instead under the current-edition name, Plasterer (Wall and Ceiling). NSW separately licenses this exact trade as dry plastering, requiring its own Certificate III — a state requirement layered on top of, not replaced by, a TRA assessment.

An honest read on this pathway

Fibrous Plasterer reaches the points-tested 189, state-nominated 190, working-holiday 407, post-study 485, regional 491 and 494 — but not 186 or 482, which sit with the current-edition name for the same code. NSW licenses the trade this name describes — dry plastering, fibrous plaster and plasterboard work — as its own category requiring a Certificate III in Wall and Ceiling Lining or a named equivalent, on top of whatever visa or assessment outcome is achieved federally. Real applicant discussion of this specific trade does exist, though some of it is old enough to reference assessment pathways TRA has since closed.

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 Fibrous Plasterer 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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