Business Broker (ANZSCO 612111)

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 Business Broker 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

Business Broker 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 Business Broker comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Business Broker is a VETASSESS Group D occupation, the same Certificate III-or-higher, one-year-employment structure as the rest of the real-estate ladder. Its named highly relevant field of study is Real Estate Management or Business Broking specifically, and VETASSESS names Franchise Broker as a suitable alternative title for the same code, useful for anyone whose overseas title used that term instead.

Where these applications come unstuck

Business Broker is one of only two of the five real-estate-ladder codes (alongside Real Estate Agency Principal) with no visible "occupations not considered" exclusion list on its own page, which can read as meaning almost any brokering or dealing role fits — VETASSESS's own Real Estate Agent page directly contradicts that by naming Business Broker as an excluded occupation for Real Estate Agent, so the exclusion clearly runs in at least one direction even though Business Broker's own page does not state it back.

An honest read on this pathway

It reaches only the Regional Occupation List and a single visa subclass, the same narrow reach as Real Estate Agent and Real Estate Agency Principal despite selling businesses rather than property being a genuinely distinct commercial activity. No self-employment evidence checklist specific to this code was found, despite business brokers commonly operating independently — the itemised accountant-letter-plus-invoices bundle published for the 511xxx administrator codes has no published equivalent here, so a self-employed broker should confirm directly what evidence VETASSESS expects rather than assuming it carries across.

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

Whether nominating Business Broker is your best route depends on your points, experience evidence and timing — exactly what a MARA-registered agent works through in an initial consultation. Describe your situation once through Migratio and compare real consultation quotes from registered agents, free.

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