Canvas Goods Fabricator (ANZSCO 393111)

On the Regional 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 Canvas Goods Fabricator 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.

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 Canvas Goods Fabricator comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Canvas Goods Fabricator carries only the Regional Occupations List, which sits outside TRA's own repeated eligibility wording for the Migration Skills Assessment, the Offshore Skills Assessment Program and the TSS Skills Assessment Program — each names only the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List or the Short-term Skilled Occupations Lists. That is a documented gap in what TRA has published, not a finding that this occupation is ineligible for those programs; TRA's separate OSAP and TSS occupation-and-country lists were not reachable here to check independently. Whichever program applies, TRA's evidence rule is fixed: no work experience accepted as a substitute for a qualification, and no occupational licence accepted either.

Where these applications come unstuck

ANZSCO's alternative title for this occupation, Canvas Goods Maker, and its description — awnings, tents, tarpaulins, horse rugs and caravan annexes — sit close enough to Sail Maker's sailcloth work that the two trades share technique, cutting and reinforcing heavy fabric to a pattern, even though the products differ. A general canvas fabricator's portfolio built around awnings and tarpaulins does not automatically demonstrate the marine-specific sailcloth work Sail Maker's description names, and the reverse holds too. Leather Goods Maker sits in the same unit group again but works an entirely different material, so the confusion there is lower.

An honest read on this pathway

Canvas Goods Fabricator's only visa route, on the Regional Occupations List alone, is the Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa — no employer sponsorship under 482 or 186, no points-tested or post-study route, because this occupation carries neither the Core Skills Occupation List nor either strategic skills list. Whether it can actually be assessed under TRA's Migration Skills Assessment, Offshore Skills Assessment Program or TSS Skills Assessment Program is unclear from TRA's own published eligibility wording and was not settled by this research — a real gap worth raising directly with TRA rather than assuming either way before relying on a regional-sponsorship plan.

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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