Florist (ANZSCO 362111)

On the Short-term Skilled 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 Florist on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

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 Florist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

TRA has no page dedicated to Florist. The code sits on the Migration Skills Assessment catch-all, since Florist is not one of the four TRA-named licensed trades that trigger a compulsory offshore or TSS assessment. MSA is documentary: a paper case built from a qualification, not from years spent arranging flowers. TRA states plainly that work experience cannot substitute for a qualification, and that an occupational licence cannot either. No English test is required, and every document sent must be a copy, because TRA does not return originals. Whether this specific passport-and-occupation combination is instead mandatorily routed to the Offshore or TSS program could not be confirmed from what TRA's site currently publishes.

Where these applications come unstuck

The costly assumption is that Florist opens the same doors as other trades on this authority's list. It does not: Florist carries no CSOL entry, so there is no standard 186 or 482 employer-sponsorship route to permanent residence under this code, whatever an employer offers. A second pitfall is treating strong on-the-job floristry experience as a substitute for the underlying qualification MSA actually assesses; TRA is explicit that experience alone does not clear that bar. A third is sending original certificates or transcripts, when TRA keeps only copies and returns nothing at all.

An honest read on this pathway

Florist reaches four visas, 190, 407, 491 and 494, through state nomination and regional pathways, not through direct employer sponsorship. That is a genuinely narrower pathway than a CSOL-listed trade in the same family, and it will not widen without a policy change to the occupation's own list membership. For someone whose only realistic offer is an employer wanting to sponsor them directly, this code is a dead end on the standard skilled channels; a 190 state-nomination or 491/494 regional application is the only route this list membership actually supports.

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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