Trust Officer (ANZSCO 599215)

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 Trust Officer 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).

Processing priority

Trust Officer 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 Trust Officer comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Group D: an AQF Certificate III or higher, the same four-pathway structure as the family's other Group D codes. VETASSESS describes the role as administering 'trusts, estates and settlements on behalf of beneficiaries,' with tasks including 'maintaining probate and trust files, investing trust funds and administering accounts' — financial-administration work distinct from the courtroom and registry codes elsewhere in this family.

Where these applications come unstuck

ROL-only, capped at the regional subclass 494 — no CSOL, no 186 or 482, and no evidence found of a labour-agreement or DAMA lane reaching it. Trust administration work is closer to financial services than to court or legal-office support, so an applicant should check it isn't better described by a finance-sector code before nominating Trust Officer specifically — VETASSESS's own nec guidance elsewhere in this family makes clear employment 'should not better match another anzsco code.'

An honest read on this pathway

The financial-administration outlier of the family — genuinely distinct task content, but the same narrow 494 ceiling as the other ROL-only codes. Confirm your actual duties (trust and probate file administration, not general accounting or legal casework) fit this description before assuming it's the right code — a poor task-content match here is a real assessment risk, not a formality.

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.

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