Solid Plasterer (ANZSCO 333212)
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 Solid 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).
- Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) — Permanent, points-tested, no sponsor needed · all occupations for the 189
- Skilled Nominated visa (subclass 190) — Permanent, state or territory nominated · all occupations for the 190
- Skilled Work Regional visa (subclass 491) — Provisional, regional, points-tested · all occupations for the 491
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
- Temporary Graduate visa (subclass 485) — Temporary, recent Australian graduates · all occupations for the 485
- Training visa (subclass 407) — Temporary, workplace training · all occupations for the 407
Processing priority
Solid Plasterer 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 Solid Plasterer comes from:
- Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) (official site) · our guide to the TRA process
What the assessment actually involves
Solid Plasterer is the name Home Affairs' Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List attaches to code 333212, sitting under the earlier ANZSCO edition's unit group, simply called Plasterers, with no specialisation listed. It describes the same solid-plaster and render work as the current-edition Renderer (Solid Plaster) name — decorative and protective coverings of plaster, cement and similar materials on building interiors and exteriors. A points-tested 189 or 491, or post-study 485, applicant nominates under this name. TRA's construction occupations list also uses Solid Plasterer, not the current ABS name, when marking the trade Prioritised for faster processing. Assessment is the standard document-based Migration Skills Assessment, requiring a formal qualification and documented pay evidence throughout.
Where these applications come unstuck
ABS's own current classification treats “Solid Plasterer” as merely an alternative title of a different occupation name, Renderer (Solid Plaster) — so a Solid Plasterer researching their trade on ABS's live site will land on the current-edition page and could easily assume there is one occupation, one visa list, when Home Affairs is actually running two separate rows for the code with two different visa sets. Nominating this name for an employer-sponsored 482 or 186 application targets the wrong list; that pairing sits with the Renderer (Solid Plaster) row instead. NSW licenses this trade as wet plastering, its own category requiring a Certificate III in Solid Plastering, independent of the federal naming question.
An honest read on this pathway
Solid Plasterer reaches the points-tested 189, state-nominated 190, working-holiday 407, post-study 485, regional 491 and 494 — not 186 or 482, which sit under the current-edition Renderer (Solid Plaster) name for the same code. Neither name is more correct than the other; Home Affairs runs both mappings live simultaneously, and which one determines an application's success is entirely a function of which visa programme is actually being pursued. NSW's wet-plastering licence sits on top of either outcome, gated on its own qualification and threshold, regardless of which federal name a Migration Skills Assessment was lodged under.
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 Solid 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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