Screen Printer (ANZSCO 392112)

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 Screen Printer 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 Screen Printer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Screen Printer is TRA-assessed like its printing-trades siblings, but it carries only the Regional Occupations List and the Core Skills Occupation List — neither is named in TRA's own repeated eligibility sentence for the Migration Skills Assessment, the Offshore Skills Assessment Program or the TSS Skills Assessment Program, which each point only to the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List or the Short-term Skilled Occupations Lists. That gap in TRA's published wording does not mean Screen Printer cannot be assessed under those programs — TRA's occupation-and-country lists for OSAP and TSS were not reachable here to confirm either way — but an applicant should confirm directly with TRA rather than assume eligibility from the CSOL listing alone.

Where these applications come unstuck

Screen Printer works a genuinely different method from the rest of unit group 3921 — stencils and screen equipment rather than a binding or press operation — but the equipment overlap with textile and signage printing makes the occupation easy to conflate with the ROL-only trades further along this family's list, and its own sibling Print Finisher sits on a materially wider visa list despite sharing a unit group. Evidence built around screen-printed textile or signage work should map cleanly onto stencil preparation and screen equipment, not onto binding, finishing or offset press operation, or the wrong occupation gets claimed.

An honest read on this pathway

Screen Printer's Core Skills Occupation List membership opens employer sponsorship under the standard Core Skills Stream thresholds, and the Regional Occupations List membership adds the regional and state-nominated routes — but nothing here reaches the points-tested subclass 189 or the post-study 485, because Screen Printer carries no place on either strategic skills list. Whether it is formally eligible for TRA's Migration Skills Assessment, Offshore Skills Assessment Program or TSS Skills Assessment Program is a genuine open question this research could not settle from TRA's published eligibility wording alone, and is worth confirming directly with TRA before relying on any of those three programs.

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