Musical Instrument Maker or Repairer (ANZSCO 399515)

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 Musical Instrument Maker or Repairer 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 Musical Instrument Maker or Repairer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Musical Instrument Maker or Repairer sits on the Regional Occupation List alone, reaching only the Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional (494) visa. ANZSCO describes the occupation as building, repairing and restoring musical instruments and modifying and tuning them to owners' specifications, with Piano Tuner as its named specialisation, sitting in the Performing Arts Technicians unit group at Skill Level 3. TRA has no dedicated page for this occupation; it defaults to the standard document-based Migration Skills Assessment, requiring a formal qualification and documented, verifiable pay evidence for every claimed period of paid employment.

Where these applications come unstuck

This code shares the same narrow ceiling as Broadcast Transmitter Operator, Television Equipment Operator and Gallery or Museum Technician — Regional Occupation List membership alone, with no route to employer sponsorship under any circumstance. The recurring mistake across all four is assuming any skilled-list presence implies a 482 or 186 door; it does not without Core Skills Occupation List membership specifically, which none of these four codes carries. TRA's published eligibility wording for its main assessment programs names only the strategic skills lists, so confirming which program genuinely applies to a Regional-Occupation-List-only trade is worth doing directly rather than assuming by analogy.

An honest read on this pathway

Musical Instrument Maker or Repairer reaches only the 494 regional-sponsored visa — no 186, 482, 189, 190, 407 or 485 under any circumstance, the same single-visa ceiling shared by three other codes in this family. No real forum discussion specific to this occupation's TRA assessment or visa path was found from britishexpats or any other reachable source despite a targeted search, so applicant experience for this specific code remains unsourced from 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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