Leather Goods Maker (ANZSCO 393112)
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 Leather Goods Maker 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).
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Processing priority
Leather Goods Maker isn't in any of the ANZSCO groups that Directions 121 and 122 list for the priority sectors. Some of the first group is defined by the job rather than the code: a nominated position directly involved in agriculture, aquaculture or fishing, one that directly supports mining, oil and gas or coal production, or one related to defence. Otherwise the application is processed after the priority sectors. For the permanent and provisional skilled visas, applicants who were in Australia when they applied come next, then those who applied from outside Australia. For the 482, Specialist Skills stream applications come before both.
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 Leather Goods Maker comes from:
- Trades Recognition Australia (TRA) (official site) · our guide to the TRA process
What the assessment actually involves
Leather Goods Maker carries only the Regional Occupations List, outside TRA's own repeated eligibility wording for the Migration Skills Assessment, the Offshore Skills Assessment Program and the TSS Skills Assessment Program, each of which names only the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List or the Short-term Skilled Occupations Lists. That is a gap in what TRA has published, not a conclusion this occupation cannot be assessed — the occupation-and-country lists OSAP and TSS actually run against were not reachable here. TRA's fixed evidence standard applies regardless of which program turns out to cover it: a formal qualification is required, and no amount of work experience substitutes for one.
Where these applications come unstuck
Leather Goods Maker's own ANZSCO description — wallets, cases, harnesses and saddlery, with Saddler as a named specialisation — works already-tanned leather into finished goods, a distinct activity from leather tanning as an industrial process, which carries its own separate environmental and chemical regulation this occupation itself does not attract. Inside this family, the trade sits closer in cutting-and-stitching method to Canvas Goods Fabricator and Sail Maker than to Shoemaker, but the material worked is leather rather than fabric — evidence should demonstrate leather-goods fabrication specifically, not general heavy-fabric work, if this is the code being claimed.
An honest read on this pathway
With only the Regional Occupations List, Leather Goods Maker's entire visa reach is the Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa — no 482 or 186 sponsorship route, no points-tested or post-study pathway, whatever the strength of an employer's offer. Whether TRA's Migration Skills Assessment, Offshore Skills Assessment Program or TSS Skills Assessment Program formally applies to this occupation could not be confirmed from TRA's own published eligibility wording, which names only lists this code does not carry — an open question worth raising with TRA directly rather than assuming, since none of the reachable material rules it out either way.
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 Leather Goods Maker 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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