Clothing Patternmaker (ANZSCO 393212)

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 Clothing Patternmaker 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 Clothing Patternmaker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Clothing Patternmaker 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. This dossier treats that as a gap in what TRA has published, not a conclusion that the occupation is ineligible; TRA's separate occupation-and-country lists for OSAP and TSS were not reachable to check independently. TRA's fixed evidence rule applies regardless of which program eventually covers it: no work experience accepted in place of a formal qualification.

Where these applications come unstuck

Clothing Patternmaker covers pattern design specifically — drawing master patterns from sketches, sample articles and design specifications, and cutting out the patterns themselves, with Pattern Grader and Patternmaker-Grader as named specialisations — a distinct step from both Apparel Cutter's fabric cutting and Dressmaker or Tailor's end-to-end garment making. Someone whose work spans pattern design and garment construction should check which of these three the bulk of their evidence actually supports, since Dressmaker or Tailor alone carries the Short-term Skilled Occupations List and a materially wider visa reach than either of its narrower workroom neighbours.

An honest read on this pathway

Clothing Patternmaker's Regional Occupations List membership gives it the Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa and nothing else — no 482 or 186 sponsorship, no points-tested or post-study route. That places it level with Apparel Cutter and well below Dressmaker or Tailor's reach, despite the three occupations working the same garment production chain. Whether TRA's main skilled-visa assessment programs formally cover Clothing Patternmaker under their own published eligibility wording, which names only lists this code does not carry, is a genuine open question this research could not settle, and is worth raising directly with TRA.

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.

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