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).
- Skilled Employer Sponsored Regional visa (subclass 494) — Provisional, regional employer sponsored · all occupations for the 494
Skills assessment
A positive skills assessment for Trust Officer comes from:
- Vocational Education and Training Assessment Services (VETASSESS) (official site) · our guide to the VETASSESS process
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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