Light Technician (ANZSCO 399513)

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 Light Technician 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).

Processing priority

Light Technician 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 Light Technician comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Light Technician carries both the Regional Occupation List and the Core Skills Occupation List, positioning and controlling lighting equipment for film, television or video productions or stage performances, in the Performing Arts Technicians unit group at Skill Level 3. This dual listing makes it one of only two media codes in this family — alongside Sound Technician — that reaches employer-sponsored routes at all. TRA runs no page specific to this occupation; the assessment is the standard document-based Migration Skills Assessment, requiring a formal qualification and verifiable pay evidence for every claimed period of paid employment, with no work-experience substitute accepted.

Where these applications come unstuck

The trap this code avoids, but its ROL-only neighbours do not, is a total absence of sponsorship reach — worth noting precisely because six of the other seven media codes in this family lack it entirely, and mistaking one for another based on a shared unit group is easy to do. A separate, genuine risk sits in the evidence itself: TRA's ordinary MSA rules apply in full here, meaning a formal trade or associate qualification is required and an occupational licence, however senior the applicant's actual production experience, cannot substitute for one.

An honest read on this pathway

Light Technician reaches subclass 186 and 482 through its Core Skills Occupation List membership, on top of the 494 regional route its Regional Occupation List entry also carries — a genuinely useful combination for an occupation this narrowly specialised. It does not reach the points-tested 189, state-nominated 190, working-holiday 407 or post-study 485, since it carries no strategic-list membership under any name. No real forum thread specific to this occupation's assessment or visa path was found from the sources reachable for this research.

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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