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TAS

Tasmania nomination

Tasmania has built its program around genuine, evidenced commitment to the state rather than raw points. Long-term residence, study in Tasmania, and established local employment have all carried real weight.

What connection they want

Tasmania has run streams for Tasmanian graduates, for people already working in Tasmania, and for offshore applicants with job offers - with residence and employment periods that are checked carefully.

How the program behaves

  • Tasmania has been comparatively achievable for people with modest points scores who can demonstrate they actually live and work there.
  • It has also been strict about genuineness, and has refused nominations where the commitment looked like a points exercise.
Watch for thisTasmania rewards people who genuinely move there and penalises people who treat it as a loophole. Both of those are deliberate.
Subclass 190
Yes
Subclass 491
Yes
Nomination points
190: +5  /  491: +15
Regional coverage
The whole of Tasmania is designated regional.
Program year
2026-27
Official TAS program site →

Current occupation lists, thresholds and opening dates live there, not here. Check it before you act on anything.

How Tasmania actually chooses people

Tasmania does not rank you on your points score. It ranks you on priority attributes, sorted into colour bands, and works down the bands.

1Gold priority attribute

The one priority attribute Tasmania defines publicly by occupation. You claim it by holding a skills assessment for a listed health, allied health or teaching occupation AND working in Tasmania in the same 3-digit ANZSCO group.

How the selection works

  • Registrations of interest in the Migration Tasmania Gateway are ranked, not processed in order of lodgement. A stronger profile submitted later can go ahead of a weaker one submitted earlier.
  • The gold priority attribute is occupation-linked and searchable below. Other attributes relate to your employment in Tasmania, your study there, and how long you have genuinely lived in the state.
  • Employment-based attributes have carried a minimum salary threshold, so a low-paid or heavily casual role may not count even if the job itself is real.
  • Because it is ranked on attributes rather than points, a modest points score with strong attributes can beat a high points score with weak ones.
The thing that catches people out

Do not plan around your points score alone for Tasmania. Work out which band your attributes put you in - that is what actually decides your position in the queue.

Official Tasmania program site →

This describes the mechanism Tasmania uses to rank and select candidates, which changes rarely. It deliberately does not list current thresholds or occupation lists, which change through the year. Mechanism reviewed 22 July 2026.

Search Tasmania’s priority occupation lists

Tasmania publishes two occupation lists, for two different routes. Find your occupation on either and you know which door is open to you. Search below, filter to the list you care about, or open the whole list.

Type your occupation above, or open the whole list. Between the two lists there are 330 priority occupations across health, trades, IT, engineering and business.

About green, orange-plus and orange: You may have seen older references to green, orange-plus and orange occupation bands. Migration Tasmania has replaced that colour ranking; the current program uses the gold priority attribute and the TSE priority list above. We will add other bands here only if the official site reintroduces them.

Before you pay for a skills assessmentThese two lists do not contain the same occupations, and Tasmania runs other pathways with their own rules. Being on one list does not put you on another. Confirm against the official page before paying for a skills assessment. Official Tasmania skilled migration site →

Regional postcodes in TAS

These are the designated regional area postcodes for Tasmania, as published by the Department of Home Affairs. Category 2 and Category 3 are both regional; anything not listed is Category 1 and attracts no regional concessions.

CategoryPostcodes
Category 2
Cities and major regional centres
7000, 7004–7026, 7030–7109, 7140–7151, 7170–7177
Category 3
Regional centres and other regional areas
All remaining postcodes in Tasmania.

Every postcode in Tasmania is regional. Hobart is Category 2; everywhere else is Category 3.

Is your postcode regional?

Check any Australian postcode against the Department of Home Affairs designated regional area list.

When this postcode data was checked. Transcribed from the Department of Home Affairs designated regional area postcodes page, which the Department last updated on 23 September 2024. Copied and verified here on 21 July 2026. Postcode boundaries are set by legislative instrument and do change - confirm against the official page before relying on this for a visa application.
Why there are no occupation lists or point thresholds on this pageState nomination criteria change several times a year, sometimes mid-year and usually without notice. A list copied here would be wrong within months, and a wrong list is worse than no list. What you get instead is the durable shape of each program, plus a direct link to the official source for the detail. Reviewed 21 July 2026.

Before you commit to TAS

  1. Confirm your occupation appears on the current TAS list - state lists are much narrower than the national list.
  2. Get your skills assessment and English test done. Most states will not consider you without them.
  3. Work out your points score, then check it against what TAS has recently invited.
  4. Check whether TAS requires its own registration separate from your SkillSelect EOI.
  5. Be honest about the commitment. Nomination is granted on the basis that you will live and work there.
Check my points and pathways →Compare all states

Registered migration agents

We are building a directory of MARN-registered agents and immigration lawyers. Listings are checked against the public register before they appear.

How the directory works

Placement shown on the TAS nomination page.

General information, not migration advice. myPRJourney summarises publicly available information about Australian visas so you can understand your options. It does not assess your case, and it is not a substitute for advice from a registered migration agent (MARN) or Australian legal practitioner. Migration rules, occupation lists, income thresholds and state nomination criteria change frequently and sometimes without notice. This page was last reviewed on 21 July 2026. Always confirm current requirements directly with the Department of Home Affairs at immi.homeaffairs.gov.au.