Clothing Trades Workers nec (ANZSCO 393299)

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 Trades Workers nec 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 Trades Workers nec comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Clothing Trades Workers nec is the one code in this family assessed by VETASSESS, not TRA, and the mechanism is entirely different: VETASSESS classifies it as a Group D occupation requiring a qualification comparable to at least an Australian Qualifications Framework Certificate III, assessed through one of four pathways that trade qualification level against years of highly relevant post-qualification employment — Pathway 1, for example, needs an AQF Certificate IV or higher in a highly relevant field plus at least one year of highly relevant employment in the last five years. That is a genuinely different, more flexible model than TRA's flat refusal to accept experience as a substitute for a qualification on the rest of this family's codes.

Where these applications come unstuck

VETASSESS names Milliner as the occupation it considers suitable under this nec code, and requires a cover letter justifying why an applicant is nominating a residual 'not elsewhere classified' category rather than a more specific one, with an explicit warning that the same employment cannot be assessed against this code if it better matches another ANZSCO occupation. A reader checking VETASSESS's own page for this code will also notice an unrelated paragraph, about a completely different occupation, left over from a shared page template; it does not change the Group D criteria that follow it and should not be read into.

An honest read on this pathway

With only the Regional Occupations List, Clothing Trades Workers nec reaches just the Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa — no 482, no 186, no points-tested or post-study route, the narrowest reach in this family alongside its ROL-only TRA siblings. VETASSESS's four-pathway, qualification-for-experience model is more forgiving on evidence than TRA's flat no-substitution rule elsewhere in this family, which is a genuine advantage for an applicant who can show strong post-qualification employment — but it does not change the ceiling on which visas this code can ever reach.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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